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travelin pals - foodie international, kirsten alana & epstein travels with lola
i’ll be honest, while i do think i like a lot of different kinds of food, i don’t think of myself as that adventurous of an eater. strange foods scare me a bit. i think i might even have a texture/sensory issue that was never dealt with but that’s another story.
i’ll be traveling to Asia this august and i figured this would be the BIG food exploration experience for me. Asian food really scares me. but, in order to have an adventure of a lifetime, i’m going to get past that. i’m going to be willing to try things i wouldn’t ordinarily choose to eat AND here’s how i know i will…
i ate SCARY ASIAN food in New York at the end of march. it wasn’t intentional. not at all. but there was a formula that led to the scary Asian food eating and here it is:
- going to a happy hour mixer on an empty stomach & finally eating dinner at midnight = i’m so hungry i could eat a horse!
- being a little tipsy (ok maybe really tipsy) = i’m drunk enough that it’s a good idea to put something in my stomach
- dining amongst well-traveled peers = i feel like i’m on survivor and this is a crazy dare that i must take so i don’t kicked off the island!
good times at Kenka - east village - NYC
all of this chow-down took place at Kenka in the east village.
here’s the run down of the crazy-ass Asian food i ate. just typing this makes me a little nauseous but i’m going to persevere just like i will in august.
- takoyaki – fried octopus balls
- yakitori – chicken skewers of thigh meat, chicken liver, hearts, gizzards
- bull penis – bull freaking penis
- kaeru no kara age – fried frog
it really wasn’t all that bad with the exception of the aforementioned texture issues with the bull penis – YUCK.
like kids in a candy store!
BONUS was DIY cotton candy and cheap big pitchers o’beer! that, and hanging out with three totally cool travel peeps that i’d been dying to meet til 1:30am! thanks miss foodie international, kirsten alana & jonathan epstein for a night i’ll not soon forget!
XO – lola
*cotton candy photo credit to Kirsten Alana – photographer extraordinaire
