The Meat Hook

Just in case you were craving Soft-shelled turtle stew, they have you covered at the secret, super-sized butcher shop on Mott street.

You can also get you some of the more usual Chinatown suspects like live eels, bull frogs and shrimp along side Alligator legs and tail meat from Florida.

Too lazy to cook? Don’t worry, they have a food court that has a stall that BBQs whole 80 pound pigs and sells a variety of marinated, braised items such as pork bung, uterus, duck tongues, tripe and other mysterious specialties that are labeled only with a cryptic: “THANK YOU!!”

We got some delicous pork buns and BBQ-ed pork riblets (we cant keep Brent away from a riblet) and then headed to Famous Sichuan for food so spicy it qualified as chemical warfare, so hot it broke our tongues. After the first course the inside of my lips felt like they were lined with fur and my taste buds were so scrambled that my delicious glass of NYC tap water tasted like sanitizing solution.