There I was, cruising through "chinatown" (as we locals know, that's the bottom block of Fisgard) and decided I needed some good LC food and I needed it now. I debated a few different options, and decided the traditional BBQ'd pork (only a teensy bit of sweetness on the outside, do-able), "just the meat" style, would fill the bill nicely.

So I'm in there, and I'm looking around while the nice lady applies cleaver to pork chunk, and there's BAGS of homefried pork skins/rinds! I had to have one to try it out...they're not salted but otherwise GLORIOUSLY puffy and light, and a bit chewy. And considering the number of pigs that place goes through (I had to turn my eyes away: a hatchet and a pig-in-process were not far away and in full view).

About 2.00 for a big bag that weighs 0.21 (kg? lb? not sure til I get the bag home to my kitchen scale).

Always a surprise around here...

Interesting! I'll have to go check it out...

Let me know if you get food poisoning first!

Har har! Haven't keeled over yet, and it's been quite a few hours...such a suspicious mind you have, dear one!

Go, be adventurous! The deep frying will have killed off any critters, if that's what you're worried about!

Ah, this modern world. How DID we all survive as a race before refrigeration?

It's not the deep-frying I'm worried about...it's the probable storage in the "back room" next to that bucket of illegally-procured pork blood they use to prop open the door to the back alley.

(This really happened...I read the Health Department reports on each restaurant I go to...)

http://www.healthspace.ca/viha

So I'm checking through the Food Facility reports at VIHA dear one, and I can't figure out which restaurant/prep facility it was that I went to (by name), so my ? to you is: how on earth did you figure out which one?

I didn't. Just guessing.....("generalizing.")To be honest, I'll probably go try them anyway!!

wicked!

they sell fresh pork rinds everywhere in Spain too. absolutely nothing like those dry things you buy in the supermarket. yummy!