Interesting

Went to a Chinese restaurant with hubby and his dad. They eat some interesting foods.

I stuck w/ tofu, but they nicely ordered some fish also. They also got duck, but it's never been my favorite.

I'm not much of a fish person, but thought I'd be open-minded. I like it more than duck anyway.

The fish arrived whole, head and tail on. You hack away at the skin and then pull out the thin bones.

Here is a photo of a similar snapper, though this one was breaded:

His dad then crunched away at the tail, which apparently is just the same as a potato chip. And then he ate the head and saving the best for last, the eye.

I like tofu, so I ate more of that. I was told it had a topping of pieces of garlic. After eating it, it was topped with whole mini shrimp with eyes (each one about 1/2 inch in length, eyes included).

Here is a photo:

I then thought I'd spotted a squished dead fly in between layers of the tofu, but it turned out to of course be a mini fish head (about the same size as the whole shrimp) -- and kinda the same color as a fly. But yes, it was quite clearly a fish's head, about the size of a pencil eraser.

Mini fish heads and mini shrimp. Interesting experience.

I guess I just don't think much about the things I eat in their whole form. This has got me thinking. I'm wondering about vegetarianism now.