On Christmas Eve I saw that my mother had outdone herself in creating a strange menu. She was pulling black veins out of the backs of fleshy prawns. The kitchen was littered with appalling mounds of raw food: A slimy rock cod with bulging fish eyes that pleaded not to be thrown into a pain of hot oil. Tofu, which looked like stacked wedges of rubbery white sponges. A bowl soaking dried fungus back to life. A plate of squid, their backs crisscrossed with knife markings so they resembled bicycle tires. —"Fish Cheeks," Amy Tan Which part of the excerpt contains a simile? "I saw that my mother had outdone herself in creating a strange menu" "A slimy rock cod with bulging fish eyes that pleaded" "Tofu, which looked like stacked wedges of rubbery white sponges".