介绍:
I am on the search for some new strange and wonderful delights in Beijing. This week I have decided to try my hand at Rabbit's head. Rabbit's head is actually a delicacy enjoyed in many provinces in China including the Sichuan province.
Although Beijing offers a wide range of venues which serve this particular delicacy, I have decided to splash out and head down to the prestigious Lao Jie Tu. Who knows if this will be a gourmet's dream or a dish that I simply need to push to the side.
I have just arrived at Lao Jie Tu in Dongzhimen. It is a really nice restaurant. I imagined that when I went on the hunt for rabbit head I would be going to more of a local restaurant but the interior design of this restaurant has been done really well. The fact that it has got rabbit in the name (tu means rabbit in Chinese) means that you imagine that the rabbit's head here is probably quite good. The rabbit head here is only 8 yuan or roughly 1.1 dollar. I have a feeling this maybe one of those meals that I don't really like. There is so much meat on a rabbit I am not sure what the fascination with the head is.
I am going to order first and see how it goes. Waiter.
"The Rabbit's head is one of our most famous dishes and I personally think it is delicious. It comes in two different styles: five spices style and Sichuan style. The Rabbit's head can also be severed without any spices. We also serve different parts of the rabbit and none of them have small bones in them. A lot of people like to enjoy a nice cold beer with their rabbits head."
I have just ordered quite a few dishes and the rabbit's head. I don't expect it to taste bad but at the same time I expect it to be a lot more daunting than the scorpions. I guess for now I will just have to wait for my food to arrive.
My rabbits head has just arrived; it almost reminds me of a chicken head. You can smell the spices that it has been cooked in. It doesn't smell particularly bad. It is not very big but then again rabbits are not really huge creatures.
I am just looking at how I am meant to eat this. It says you are meant to split it in two and then bite it. Apparently you eat it by hand, you don't use chopsticks to eat it. I am still not 100 percent sure about how I feel about this. When you open it up it is so creepy! Oh No! The meat looks very fresh just... Oh No. I am so hesitant about doing this.
As soon as you open it up you just take a bite. It is actually alright. WOW! They put a lot of herbs and spices in it and it is very hot. The meat does not taste that bad, it is very soft, this may be the most cliched description I can give, but it actually does taste a lot like Chicken.
I am relatively impressed. I am not going to say it is amazing and I need to come back for this every week but the meat is very tender. It absorbs the spices very elegantly. It is actually not bad. It is so much creepier than anything else I have eaten in China. I can eat it; I just can not look at it.
That was not as terrible an experience as I thought and trying rabbit's head for the first time has got me thinking about all the different styles rabbit that may be quite appetizing. While I do not think I am going to be rushing back to Lao Jie Tu any time soon, I definitely wouldn't be so quick to turn my nose up on some fresh cooked rabbit in the future.
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