mmmm

I just got back from dinner, and I had Cobra heart, venom and blood! Mmm!

They killed the Cobra in front of us, drained it's blood into a bottle that had some moonshine in it, then cut out the heart and dropped it into a shot glass. Next they cut out the venom sack and poor it into another bottle of moonshine. We went upstairs to a table where they poured some venom into the heart shot glass and I downed that one, while Wayne had a glass of blood. They took the rest of the snake to the kitchen and cooked it up several ways. I also had a glass of blood and we both had a shot of intestine-moonshine. All of these only tasted like moonshine. The first snake dish was the meat cooked with some mushrooms and vegetables. It tasted something like crawdish. The second dish was tail tail meat, fried. Next was the spine chopped up and served on a rice cracker. That was the best dish. Next was mini-snake spring rolls, which were ok. They also gave us a soup that wasn't very good, but I don't think it had any snake in it. I have a biz card for anyone who goes to Hanoi and wants to try cobra.