AGE: Horse Tongue

Two of the students really wanted to eat in town tonight, so I took them out. The boys were looking to get some meat (Japanese food is a lot of noodles and seafood), so we asked one of the employees at the lodge for advice. When we got to the Yakiniku Barbeque restaurant that he suggested, these were the first five items on the menu:

Yes, that's mutton, entrails, beef, horse tongue, and pig tongue. One of the students went for the beef, while the other one went for the mutton and horse tongue. However, he only got the horse tongue under the stipulation that we all tried it. They brought the raw meat out for us to cook at our table. Here's a picture of a cooked piece of horse tongue with all the raw pieces waiting to be cooked.

And here I am about to try my first piece of horse tongue!

I had two pieces. The first was to try it. The second was to go the whole hog.