Tuesday, August 08, 2006
Mysteries of the Orient, Part 2
Second stop was at a used bookstore, where I picked up the little gem pictured at left. I love to cook, and I've been to Hong Kong and Singapore (even the parts Anthony Bourdain would seek out. Especially the parts Anthony Bourdain would seek out), but I've never come across the following. Reading it was like discovering a whole new world - an exotic, fascinating, and somewhat disgusting world:Ingredients: Ligustrum Japonium, wine dreg, Fat of snow toad, conpoy, fish maw, lily bulb, astragalus hengl, medlar, campanumaea pilosula, fox nut, spatholobus glue, Lung-lee leaves.
Instructions (not all from the same recipe):
Put fox nut into stomach of duck.
Attach bronchial of pig's lung to water tap and run water into pig lung.
Pick out those with hairs.
Tear outer membrane off ox's testicle.
Wash cow stomach.
Recommendations:
Good for strengthening the loins and fortify the kidneys.
Good as Yin tonic and as agent for moistening the liver.
Not suitable for headache caused by deficiency of Yam essence and excessive fire in heart or lungs.
Good for expelling of dampness.
Good for alleviating white flow of women.
Good for quenching liver fire (intense heat)
# posted by Peggy @ 12:09 PM 
