Mengu Daifu Says #1: You grow what you eat!

Last week Charlie and I were invited to a dinner at my Mongolian friends' house and degust the very famous Turtle Soup for the first time. My Mongolian friends happened to be homosexual and are genuinely enthusiastic about any food that may generate physical stimulations to their bodies.

Mengu Daifu says: ”You grow what you eat!”
Eat turtles can help developing male genitalia;
Eat fish eyes can enhance eyesight;
Eat fat pork skin can give better skin quality…
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So a turtle soup wouldn’t do anything for me really, I hardly had any interest in experimenting it and I was discussed by sharing how the soup was made.

“I let the turtle biting one end of a chop stick so its head would stick out to be chopped off,” my friend elaborated while enjoying his soup , “I had to be quick and accurate when chopping off the turtle head, and turtle’s 4 legs maintained moving even after I chopped off his head. That was just scary!” Dead turtle must be pressed under a piece of very heavy stone in order to squeeze its blood out as much as possible- “Dead turtle’s blood should be unedible,” explained my friend, “we washed the turtle very carefully and boiled it for 4 hours to ensure all nutritious elements were cooked into the soup. The head-less turtle cramped after it was thrown in hot water, we worrid it would jump out but it finally stopped moving in the pot.”
Cooked turtle meat appeared smooth and chewy, the soup looked a bit gray. The whole pot of soup was finished within half an hour.

I checked Charlie after he had 4 bowls of it, his body was as masculine as usual. Maybe I should have measured certain length before and after the dinner… :-l