The Marrow Spoon

In China, it seems like the most frightening things are good for you. Take this snake wine, for example. In some way the tour guide and lady serving the snake wine was too busy laughing at me to explain, it is supposed to be good for ladies. They have some other blends with legged animals infused, but those are for men. They put hair on your chest, or something. Anyway, it was not advised for moi.

Of course, I didn't go halfway around the world so that I could tell you all just about how McDonalds is the same everywhere, so I tried this in order to report from the fringes of adventure. But I have to say, it wasn't so strange. It did make me feel rather powerful, though. And I can report that I was able to drink more and sleep less in China than I can in the US. In Japan, whole garlic and pickles fermented with fish heads kept me going. It seems that the problem of fitting various social engagements and physical needs for sleep into the same busy schedule is universal.

The flavor of the goji berries (wolf berries) imparts more to the liquor than the snake does. I will keep trying to delight and amaze, but I am running out of places to look for new foods.