The meat was tender and had no gamey taste. Instead, it had soaked up the savory fish broth and the sour heat of the pickled peppers. It tasted a lot like iguana, but with an added layer of softer, stickier skin.
Her worries eased, and since she was starving, she didn't stand on ceremony with Lin Chen. She picked up a large helping of sliced crocodile belly with her chopsticks and swished it quickly through the boiling fish broth.
Once the slices had changed color, she lifted them all out at once and dipped them into her bowl of seasonings.
The steam instantly released the aroma of the herbs in her bowl, a rich, fresh citrusy scent shooting straight up her nose.
She lifted a full chopstick's worth of thin meat slices, coated in red and green seasonings. The surface of each slice had a layer of translucent, gelatinous crocodile skin. Once cooked, it lost its frightening appearance entirely, becoming exceptionally tempting instead.
