Adventures in Cuisine: Octopus!
Headed over to the D & A Cafe tonight and decided to try the baby octopus plate. Can-I-Keep-It-Down Rating: 7. Funnily, the experience was much like eating haggis. If you're really hungry and eat a little haggis, it's quite good. However, there's a particular threshold that you cross when you've eaten enough and then you realize how disgusting it is and start to question your judgment and the whole meaning of life in general :P
Btw, here's my D & A Cafe Yelp Review:
It was cheap. It was late. I was naive.
While eating I kept reminding myself that I might visit China someday and that I better learn to deal with mystery food and sticky: floor, table, seat, silverware, waitresses, everything.
The only real cool thing about the experience was how they clean the bathroom. I went in there (out of necessity - just couldn't wait) and as I looked around - it was obvious that they had just cleaned it (walls, toilet, sink, ceiling, everything, no joke) by using a water hose and letting all the junk go down the drain in the middle of the floor. It was actually really clean after the hosing - and everything was well, very wet. It was really quite awesome.
20 Feb 2007 Matt Jaynes
Did you go over there after you left my place? You ate octopus?? That's disgusting! :( I'm definitely not that brave when it comes to things I'll put in my mouth. Even calamari can't resemble a squid if you want me to eat it. ugh. Just got goosebumps. yikes!
He he, yeah. We used to eat the tentacles when I was a kid in Hawaii - but they prepared it a bit better there - very nicely cooked and seasoned. As for last night's culinary challenge - well, I'm a boy - we're supposed to be a little gross ;)