Donkey

Out past the Gold Sand River on the Apricot Mountain Road (aren’t Chinese street names poetic?) there is a little shop that sells cured donkey meat.  You can guess that first character on the lantern 驴 (lǘ) is “donkey” because the radical is 马 (mǎ which means “horse.”)  And, sure enough 肉 means meat.

And no, before you ask, donkey does not “taste like ass.”  Cured donkey meat tastes a lot like chopped, low-grade corned beef and it’s served in a puffy, crispy flatbread that almost seemed like an airy taco shell.  I’d eat it again, but I wouldn’t seek it out.  More than anything, it made me crave a really good pastrami sandwich.See?  Apricot Mountain Road.

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