Walking around Houston Eating Insects and Burria Tacos

We are in our third home. We have been to Houston four times in the last 10 months. We decided to do something fun between visits to the doc. Here are some photos of our guided walking tour of the downtown Houston food scene.

Xochi: Mariscos Puerto Escondido
half lobster tail, head on shrimp, scallops, clams, mussels, creamy rice, quelites

Me: “what did you think?”

Karen: “Best mexican food ever.”

Xochi: Ant mole

Included in our 4 mole sampler was a little caviar of ant larvae

Escamoles ‘ant’ and molli ‘puree’ known colloquially as Mexican caviar or insect caviar, are the edible larvae and pupae of ants of the species Liometopum

So good…

Oldest bar in Houston: it appears to be leaning slightly towards Nacogdoches
Frank’s pizza: cajun bodin and bacon
Brisket spring roll
Houston Atlee boy on bike corner of Prairie and Main
Biscuit beef tips maybe a little gravy
Did not try the moonshine but biscuits and gravy you bet
Underground Hall
Flip’n Patties Filipino sticky rice and chicken thighs
Tacos from outa space
Ice cream
Andes mint and brown butter biscotti

And I discovered, along with a few pounds and larger waistline, one of my favorite poems etched on a sidewalk!

Cheers!

Who made the world?
Who made the swan, and the black bear?
Who made the grasshopper?
This grasshopper, I mean —
the one who has flung herself out of the grass,
the one who is eating sugar out of my hand,
who is moving her jaws back and forth instead of up and down —
who is gazing around with her enormous and complicated eyes.
Now she lifts her pale forearms and thoroughly washes her face.
Now she snaps her wings open, and floats away.
I don’t know exactly what a prayer is.
I do know how to pay attention, how to fall down
into the grass, how to kneel down in the grass,
how to be idle and blessed, how to stroll through the fields,
which is what I have been doing all day.
Tell me, what else should I have done?
Doesn’t everything die at last, and too soon?
Tell me, what is it you plan to do
with your one wild and precious life?

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