"James Silverton" > wrote
> The restaurant that I have mentioned, Bob's Shabu-Shabu, has some
> interesting things in addition to its namesake dish, like "Pork Intestine
> over Rice" and "Spicy Pig Blood with Tripe",

Spicy Pig Blood with Tripe must be a 'standard' dish ... I had it in
California with a (Chinese) woman who insisted. Not something I'd go out of
my way for, but not awful .. indeed I don't remember a lot about it. Either
a soup or kind of soupy as I recall, with (nicely tender) tripe and squares
of "pig blood" and a few other ingredients. The pig blood is somehow
solidified, a kind of smooth jelly like texture, and to my taste might
better be prepared as crisply fried, like some blood sausage that another
young lady tried to gross me out with in Puerto Rico, but which I thought
was yummy. But I'm not sure the Chinese style pigs blood would hold up to
that treatment.

It seems a lot of these things .. pigs blod, sea cucumber, etc ... are
better in small doses, which means having a large and adventurous table to
share with.