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The Restaurant That Serves Penis

By Koji Steven | Tuesday, December 22, 2009 | View Comments

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With the holidays comes eating, especially if you’re Asian. We eat to celebrate the good times, the bad times, and everything in between. The holiday season is no different — with all this eating, I thought about a producer/reporter friend of mine, Adam Yamaguchi, who made a video about his trip to China and a restaurant that served only penis.  If you haven’t already seen it, check it out: Penis Restaurant: Vanguard.

For Asians, this should not be too shocking of a video. When we eat an animal, we eat the entire animal. Pick off every piece of flesh from the head to the tail, including sometimes the skin, bones, eyeballs, etc.

And actually, this isn’t just an Asian thing: people from the rest of the world don’t waste any part of the animals they eat. They literally eat every everything (including penis). If you don’t believe me, go to a good “ethnic” market and you’ll see what I’m talking about.

Americans, on the other hand, seem to waste most of the animal. My immigrant mom used to say that I ate like an American, which needless to say, was meant to be disparaging. And deep down, I know it’s wasteful. (My stepfather from Hiroshima claims that the eyeball is the best part of a fish. I’ll just have to trust him on that one.)  Other than highlighting the wastefulness of most Americans, to me, Adam’s video just reminds me of how un-Asian (is that a word?) I really am.

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  • lexan
    Speaking as an American I can assure you we don't waste any part of the tiger.
  • EurasianSensation
    Actually there are plenty of Americans who like the taste of penis.
  • erika888
    I never ate entrails until I visited Viet Nam. Now I quite like it :P I've never eaten penis though.
  • Ms. Jen
    My local Vietnamese supermarket has a whole freezer section full of "Beef Ox Pizzle", me being me, I took a photo: http://twitpic.com/98n18. ;o)
  • eccentricyoruba
    the thought of eating an animal's penis is strange to me to say the least. however, when i admit that i love eating cow skin it doesn't seem so weird anymore. you do raise an excellent point. and it's not an Asian thing at all, i'm African and we eat every single part of the animal as well; ox-tail, intestines, skin, eyes, heart, brain...everything. there's a lot of variety...i have never been much of a meat lover though, the skin has always been enough for me though it is considered as 'useless' due to it's lack of nutrients.
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