For lunch I ate at a restaurant I hadn't tried before, the Purple Dot. There I had lo mein, which is nothing new, and beef "delicacies," or delicious innards and tendons sauteed with soy sauce and garlic.
I also picked up a bottle of Laughing Buddha Pandan Brown Ale, a dark ale made with pandan leaves, a fragrant Asian leaf, as well as sugar cane and chocolate malt. Very full-bodied without being too hoppy or rich.
Why do the French call it "sweetbreads" and the Asians call it "delicacies?" Because if they called it cow esophagus, stomach lining, pancreas, heart, thymus gland, and tendons, no one would eat it. You may think it sounds gross, but I bet you eat it when they grind it up, slap a casing on it, and call it a hot dog.
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