I almost forgot!

I almost forgot to post about my experience at the Chinese restaurant tonight. Since it’s Friday Night at the “8 China Buffet” (does anyone understand where they get names for their restaurants?) there were a few “extras” on the buffet that I was feeling saucy-enough to try.

It helped that Kory “dared” me, too…

I grabbed a boiled crawfish off the buffet on my second-round and brought him back to the table and attempted to act like I knew what I was doing. I pulled his tail off and sucked on the meat that looked very similar to meat that we used to extract from our crab-feasts while vacationing on the Delaware Bay as a kid. I then opened up Mr. Crawfish’s belly and ate something that resembled a meaty-like substance but didn’t taste all that great.

I finished my crawfish and it wasn’t 2-seconds later that a lady sitting a little ways away from us spoke up, “You don’t know what you’re doing, do you?”

After a sheepish laugh, I answered, “No” and she offered to get a couple more to show me how to “properly” eat a crawfish.

I was so excited I nearly ran to help her get our “specimens”.

She quickly returned with a bowl of three crawfish and told me to take one and “follow along”.

Who knew there was a shrimp-like piece of meat readily-available to extract from the tail of a crawfish? Not me – but I do now!

She also politely told me that I probably shouldn’t have eaten what I took out of the belly of this mini-monster. Funny how I found that out after the fact.

I told her that whatever it was I ate from inside the belly wouldn’t be any worse than what I ate from the bottom of the Ocean in Haiti! We had a great conversation with she and her husband and they laughed a few extra times about me eating something from the belly – I think, just to make me feel better about being an idiot.

It’s nice to meet helpful people, isn’t it?!