Experiences labelled with 'restaurant'
Whenever I travel, especially to the East, I get this overpowering urge to eat bizarre delicacies. Something about the local fare, the tentacles squirming in buckets at neighborhood markets, strange new meats, and steam rising off grills charring unrecognizable animal parts gets my blood pumping - it almost makes me feel that, despite the McDonalds and KFCs at any given corner, I'm actually traveling to places that are authentically different from where I grew up. During my last break, I became obsessed with finding and feasting on fugu, or pufferfish. Fugu, literally "river pig", is a fish prized for its unique look, its delicate flesh, and its ability to puff up to scare predators. It's also extremely poisonous to humans. Every year, hundreds of people, ...
