This is a quickie as I am really tired tonight. After another long day, tonight we went out for dinner with my OH, her brother and his new friend. Last nights Chinese meal was delicious- it makes such a difference when you have fresh Chinese food made from fresh ingredients- you can taste every flavour!!!

Tonight we went to our local and indulged in traditional delicacies- lamb and chips! However, when it came to delicacies, my OH;s brother's guest had some great stories. Being oriental she regaled us with tales of some of the delicacies that she was offered in her time. MKFunky, if you are reading this it may be best to turn away now! She told us of a table she once sat at with a hole in the centre (about the size of a mango) Under neath the hole was a basket. She wondered at the beginning of dinner what the hole was for. And then the started appeared. Alive and from the hole! It was a monkey! A servant came with a knife and slice the skull open revealing the brain! The dinner guests were then given chopsticks and they took pieces of live brain from the monkey... as it was looking at you!!!! It's a different world!!! She also mention that she was once offered live turtle, with the shell removed! And in that country it was the height of bad manners to refuse food offered to you!

So here's tonights big question.... Would you eat live monkey brain so as not to offend your host. I would lie to think I would!