More Food

Today a couple of Chinese students took a classmate and I out to lunch. I trust the students to find and order good food for us. However, today I was commanded to point at the pictures in the menu and order a couple of dishes for the group.

I found something that looked like noodles in broth. I ordered it, and promptly tried it when it came. It looked like noodles, but when I tasted it I realized I was wrong.

The “noodle” was chewy. It tasted like acid. My classmate and I spent close to five minutes trying to figure out what exactly we were eating. Finally we decided to ask the Chinese students. One of them requested my dictionary. A minute later he found the definition and turned the dictionary my way so I could see. It read, “Intestine.”