got me some ass

I did it, I finally tried donkey like I said I was going to in an earlier post.  Figured that since I only had enough time left to eat it once, might as well do it right and go to the same place I saw on the Travel Channel.  Of course I had already hyped myself up for this before finding the address and realizing it is on the complete opposite side of Beijing from where I live.  After taking the subway to Sihui station, we got off and walked across the street to a bus station, jumped on bus #989 and it was about ten stops to Dong Ba which is where we got off.  By the time we had reached that point, we definitely got the feeling we were in the middle of nowhere.  And to feel like you are in the middle of nowhere while still being within the city limits of Beijing, well that isn’t easy to do.  But we found it, the only tall and lit up building in the area.

The food was good and decently priced.  The menu has much more than just donkey, but donkey is what we were there for so that is what we stuck with.  We tried donkey skin which was thinly sliced and mixed with veggies and really kinda tasted like a veggie itself.  We had donkey meat stir fried with scallion, donkey ribs that were so tender they slid off the bone without effort, and donkey dumplings.  Four dishes, three bowls of rice, tea, and a big bottle of Coca-Cola for 140 kuai (about $20 US).  Definitely worth the money, but was it worth the distance?

To be honest, none of us found that donkey had much flavor, nothing too unique about it.  The donkey and scallions dish, if we didn’t know otherwise, could have easily passed as beef.  But the menu was so extensive, so many parts I didn’t have enough room in my stomach to try in one sitting, I would definitely go back.