Posted on 08/05/2008 11:31:28 AM PDT by Renfield
There is a Cantonese saying that the Chinese eat everything that flies, except aeroplanes; everything with four legs, except tables; and everything that swims, except submarines - and visitors to Beijing's fast-food market during the Olympic Games will be left in no doubt of that.
A stroll among the food stalls of Wangfujing Snack Street, not far from Tiananmen Square, reveals delicacies of every conceivable kind.
Laid out in trays and boiling in cauldrons are everything from goat lungs with red peppers to scorpion brochettes, seahorses on skewers, iguana tails, dung beetles and silk worms on a stick, by way of fried sparrows, grilled snake and turkey vulture schnitzels....
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Dog is openly sold in any market over there. They have ugly dogs they sell for meat five feet away from cute dogs they sell for pets.
I always wandered if sea horses were edible....
Dog is openly sold in any market over there.
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I was in Viet Nam last year for a few weeks and learned that every dog over 20 pounds has the same name: dinner.
Eat dog once in the first half of the lunar month for luck, cat once in the 2nd half of the lunar month for same. That was what the guide translated the woman as saying in a little village that just recently opened up for tourists.
If it tastes gook = Freudian slip!! gook should be good
Don’t the South Koreans beat their dogs as they kill them to get “adrenaline” into the meat? That way it either has a “tonic” or “aphrodisiac” effect on the consumer.
No thanks....I’ll stay home and and take a Las Vegas buffet any day. From the way that crap looks, any touristas better have a good supply of depends......
Looks like a sure case of food poisoning to me...
if it don’t kill ya, you’ll probably wish you were dead after eating it! LOL
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