Visiting 99 Ranch Market makes you realize not just how little you

Visiting 99 Ranch Market makes you realize not just how little you know about world cuisine, but how little you wanted to know. For example, I caught a glimpse of a product labeled “beef marrow guts” and now am haunted by its applications. The Internet provides little recipe assistance or even anatomical assistance: It’s tripe, maybe, or green-goo-filled lower intestines, or the squeezed-out insides of bones. Still, as with Frito pie and foie gras, some of the nastiest-sounding food on earth winds up being delicious. Connoisseurs of organ meat will find themselves knee-deep in potential dinners at 99 Ranch, which stocks every part of the pig and then some: ear, tongue, snout, brain, face, end gut, bung gut, uteri, stomach, liver, kidney, feet, tail, blood, and “melt,” which looks like a prolapsed rectum. (Sorry, but you weren’t going to eat it anyway.) If you can’t wait until home to get a dose of vitamin O, on the other side of the market is a little Hong Kong–style cafe, where these delicacies are served up on steaming plates.—John Metcalfe Great Wall Shopping Mall, 18230 E. Valley Hwy., Kent, 253-872-8899.