As I biked to work on my usual route this morning, I was behind a slow-moving scooter for a few blocks (slow-moving enough that its pace matched my bike's). The scooter had a big box/cart attachment on the back. Fortunately (for me, anyway), there was a plastic cover over the contents of the cart. But hanging on either side were several, um, animal parts. I can't tell what animal they came from, but I recognized raw, dried muscle on bone, and brains. Just hangin' out on the scooter.
What's weird is, it took me a few minutes to notice it, and even longer to realize I should probably be (would normally be?) grossed out. Thanks to Taiwan's special pick-something-and-fry-it carts pervasive at night markets, I apparently have become immune to the sight of animal brains hanging off the side of a scooter on my morning commute.
Sorry, no pictures. Biking + photographing + Taiwan traffic = certain injury.
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- 費凱蒂 Katie
- Krakow, Taiwan
- A linguistics degree. A year teaching in Kaohsiung, Taiwan. Now what? The blog name, Fei Kaidi, comes from the Chinese transliteration of my name. For those who don't read pinyin, my Chinese name sounds like "Fake I.D."
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3 comments:
Time to either come home, or swear that you will never again eat from such a cart.
Considering that I am still grossed out by carts of animal brains, I thank you for not including a picture this time.
...this time.
Why couldn't this have happened before I left instead of after?
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