Last week visited a restaurant, Les Vieilles Canailles, in Aix-en-Provence and had a very strange food. Will you eat this bone marrow?

The restaurant


The owner with the menu


He told me they serve a very special starter known as bone marrow, I actually hesitated a little so I ordered the octopus starter instead


with a pastis and a bottle of wine




My heart was a little unsettled wanting to try the bone marrow so I ordered it not know what it is, how big it is and how its cooked (my only idea of bone marrow is Malay's tulang in red sauce which I don't eat)

So came the bone marrow which looks quite beautiful but the bone looked a little on the big side


When I dug in this came out


and another


Inside is full of this jelly thing after just 2 teaspoons full I fell very full and wanna throw out, its like eating fats. Now I know what bone marrow is and I will never want to eat this again.

For the main course the veal was perfect though, I really enjoyed this


raw inside


Small restaurant

I frequently ate bone marrow as a child. I probably wouldn't here unless assured of supply chain

violet wrote: ↑Thu Jun 28, 2018 2:01 pm I frequently ate bone marrow as a child. I probably wouldn't here.

Is it in Cambodia where you ate before? Does the bone marrow you ate look jelly like this? How was it cooked do you remember?

No, it was in my home country. Bone marrow is bone marrow. All the same in terms of looks. Like jelly? I suppose I could describe the consistency as a bit like that, but more like a baked custard. It came in the bones we ate, which had meat on too. I loved digging out the marrow.

Edit for clarity...we didn't eat the bones. Not a family of dogs

yong wrote: ↑Thu Jun 28, 2018 2:00 pm Last week visited a restaurant, Les Vieilles Canailles, in Aix-en-Provence and had a very strange food. Will you eat this bone marrow?

Yes that's os à moelle, they serve it at Bouchon Wine Bar in Phnom Penh for $5

violet wrote: ↑Thu Jun 28, 2018 2:06 pm No, it was in my home country. Bone marrow is bone marrow. All the same in terms of looks. Like jelly? I suppose I could describe the consistency as a bit like that, but more like a baked custard. It came in the bones we ate, which had meat on too. I loved digging out the marrow.

Edit for clarity...we didn't eat the bones. Not a family of dogs

My Mum would suck it out of any bones we had. Fnarr. She grew up with rationing.

yong wrote: ↑Thu Jun 28, 2018 2:00 pm When I dug in this came out

Eat it up, you'll grow hairs on your chest!

You can get it in the calf-on-a-spit restaurants here, I've been out with locals and they've sucked it out with a straw.

timmydownawell wrote: ↑Thu Jun 28, 2018 2:42 pm

yong wrote: ↑Thu Jun 28, 2018 2:00 pm When I dug in this came out

Eat it up, you'll grow hairs on your chest!

That's the reason why violet gave up eating it.