The Nasty Bits by Anthony Bourdain

Author:Anthony Bourdain
Language: eng
Format: mobi
Published: 2011-12-28T13:31:49+00:00

i walk in out of the roaring midday heat into the air-conditioned lobby of the Goodwood Park Hotel in Singapore, my damp clothes quickly becoming a freezing straitjacket. It's high tea in the lobby. Waiters plate pastries and pour tea; they're making coffee in sinister-looking glass urns, liquid bubbling over gas burners, like you'd expect to see in the laboratory of a mad scientist. Beyond the French doors, no one is swimming in the vast pool, not a single red-faced German lying on the chaise lounges—it's just too damn hot. A quick vodka tonic in the hotel bar and then I limp up to my suite to change. I'm tired, having flown in from Sydney late the previous night, jet-lagged, my brain and liver still struggling with the vast amounts of alcohol I consumed Down Under. My tooth aches, a dull throb threatening to take over my head, and my throat is sore from talking about myself nonstop for the last year and a half. In my hotel room, I kick off my sodden clothes in the damp chill and take a wary look at myself in the mirror.

It's an uninspiring sight. My stomach is distended like a just-fed python's from an eating binge that began early in the morning and will, I am informed by Ilangoh and Bee Ping, my escorts, continue into the late hours. My eyes look like dark sinkholes, my skin is erupting from the tropical heat, and my guts are roiling like those coffee-brewing contraptions I just saw in the lobby. I hate myself. . . and I don't feel good. I grimace for the mirror and see something black stuck between my teeth.

It's scorpion.

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