I was sitting in my room when I heard the dogs barking. This isn't really strange though, since they bark at EVERYTHING!! But they were barking pretty incessantly, so I thought I should go see if there was a patient here. When I looked out from the balcony I saw that they were barking at some men in the rice field. It was clear that they were hunting something, though I wasn't sure what. As I continued to watch, the man holding a 2x4 quickly whacked at something among the rice. He bent down and lifted up a big old lizard!! I grabbed my camera from my room, hollered at Tianne to come downstairs and ran out the door.
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| They had tied his feet together and laughed when I asked if I could pick it up. |
I asked him what he was going to do with it...was he going to cook it? He said they'd make adobo (a Filipino dish) out of it. I asked if I could try a bit when it was finished and he laughed as he said yes. Maybe he didn't think an American would ever want to eat lizard. :)
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I few hours later they said it was finished so we went over and
picked up a bowl of lizard adobo.
The Filipino girls were horrified that
they'd left the skin on the lizard! It was kinda funny. :) |
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| Tianne and I were pretty excited about trying it though!! :) |
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| It tasted kinda like a gamey chicken...but with the texture of greasy pork. |
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| We're not quite sure what this was...any guesses? |
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| Tianne thought she'd give the skin a try...it was pretty chewy! |
All in all, trying lizard adobo was a pretty fun experience!! :)
