Guilin - Land of Really, Really Fresh Food

So we're walking down the street checking out restaurants. We knew Guilin was noted for it's exotic cravings, but didn't expect the creature guys to be smiling at us from cages, which they were.

I tried to get Lee to wolf down the bamboo rat, but I think he was put off by the big bad front teeth. I had never had snake, so what better time than the present? The kind waitress promptly took a pair of dull scissors and separated the vipers head from the rest of his eight feet. I didn't know I would be served the blood from the thing but there it was, deep red and somewhat chunky. I don't know what they mixed it with, it tasted like vodka, but after one brief sip and one big gulp, it was down, and I was flying, for a bit at least. Then came the bile and the wine, thus snake bile wine, which was gone in a gulp.

Snake itself isn't exacty meaty, and well, the skin was tough. Is that to be expected? Lee caught the whole thing on video, I just haven't youtubed it yet. Gotta admit, the blood was kinda good.

Oh, Lee got the chicken. He picked one out, the waitress reached in the cage, pulled one out, showed him, said "This one?", Lee said yes, and wham, down went the chicken hard to the floor. One shot kill. I gotta say, the food was fresh.