Posted on 10/30/2008 7:19:11 AM PDT by Slings and Arrows
NEW YORK (NEWSCHANNEL 3) - Health inspectors have shut down a Chinese restaurant in New York after they found workers butchering roadkill to serve in their dishes.
Someone reported they saw a guy drag a dead deer from the road into the restaurant.
When investigators arrived they found the deer on the floor of the kitchen with its legs cut off.
They say you could still see the blood trail from the front door through the restaurant where the guy dragged it.
"That's disgusting, I will never eat Chinese again. I'm sorry for all the people out there, that's gross," said customer Lisa Williams.
Health officials say they've also written numerous tickets at that restaurant over the last five years for several different violations.
Makes you wonder if the rice was harvested from the road kill.
My favorite Chinese Restaurant horror story happened to some friands. They had a monthly trip between LA and Sacramento and had been doing it for years. Everytime they would stop at their favorite CR just off of I-5 near Stockton. One time Mom and her 8 year old daughter headed to the only bathroom. When they opened the door they say the elderly Chinese cook sitting on the head with his pants down, smoking a cigarette and shelling shrimp.
If the deer was still bleeding enough to leave a trail, it was still fresh. So what difference does it make if you kill it with a car instead of killing it with a rifle or shotgun? Or with a captive bolt pistol in an industrial-scale slaughterhouse? Steak is steak! Lisa Williams is childish if she doesn't know that meat comes from dead animals cut into small pieces.
And I believe them that it was for personal use. If you found hundreds of dollars worth of fresh meat free for the taking, wouldn't you want to save on your grocery bills?
One of the favorite products of the clients of the New Hampshire Food Bank is the venison donated by hunters in the Hunt for the Hungry program. I've never tasted it, but I hear it's delicious.
I think the restaurant could sue the paper for libel - there’s no evidence presented that they were actually serving or planning to serve the venison in the restaurant.
That’s the old chinese story. The new chinese story is that the deer was full of melamine.
EEWWWWWWWWWWWW!
Been there, done that... (Eaten road kill deer, really fresh, actually still alive until a cop shot it just before I was going to administer the coop-the-gracie (that’s southern ;-) and it got up and ran 150 yards into a briar patch and died).
That’s fine, except when you’re ordering chicken and broccoli, you expect to get chicken and broccoli. NOWHERE on their menu do they have venison.
And the whole “it’s for personal use” thing? I have my doubts. Especially since the seagull rumor was confirmed by the police. I think they believe if they mask the meat with enough veggies and soy sauce, then the taste of the meat will be hidden as well and they can cut costs by serving up whatever carcass happens to bounce off the side of the road.
When you’re running a restaurant, it probably isn’t a good idea to take a dead animal off of the street and cut it up in your kitchen. Even if we were to believe them that it was for personal use, there’s no way to determine that. I wouldn’t visit ANY restaurant again if I saw a deer strung up in the back, particularly when deer wasn’t on the menu.
Personally, I prefer possum paddies and tire-tread coons.......
Well, of course they’d be violating the law and license requirements and health codes and whatnot if they were serving roadkill venison as beef or seagull as chicken. But it’s not clear that that’s what they were doing or planning to do, as I see it.
The article says they were “closed for serving seagull...” Was it actually proved by the police or health inspectors that they were serving seagull, or did the police close them on the basis of the rumors?
If it was proven, where’s the newspaper reports about it from that time? How much were they fined? Was it on the menu as seagull?
It’s not against the law to prepare your own food in your own restaurant’s kitchen, is it?
He shot it right in the head too! I was just preparing to go over and slide my knife in behind it’s shoulder blade when he did it and I looked at him after it ran into the thicket and said “Gee, THANKS!”
Back at the general store I worked at I walked into the store proper after I had cleaned it on the loading dock and asked the boss if I could hang it in the walk-in until I got off work. There were about a half dozen customers in the store and for a second I was wondering why they all were eyeing me, and the clearest route to an exit when I realized I had blood up to my elbows and a large knife in my hand...
About 10 years ago in Nashville, during a health inspection inspectors found skinned cats in the freezer. The explanation? “No for customer, family only”.
Three years ago I wound up antelope hunting by myself. After three long days of not spotting a good animal I found one and dispatched him. I used the last of my clean water to wash him out and hoisted him to the top of my Tahoe. Drove the 40 miles back to the small town of Empire which was the closest store. It also was the first day of the Burning Man Festival - typically infested with libs spending a week on the alkali flats partying and doing all kinds of weird stuff. Being very thirsty I walked into the store with lots of blood on my cammo and a 9mm on my hip. Marched straight back to the water took three out and cracked one and guzzled it. Paid and went out front. A 17 or 18 year old wisp of a girl was standing there hands on hips glaring at me. She had another girl and two loser guys standing behind her. She says "Did you kill that animal?" I said "Yes" She shoots back "Why?" I said "Cause it pissed me off. Are you trying to piss me off?" One of the loser guys goes "Hey man." I shot him my death look and he stepped back and shut up. At that point I noticed there was two Sheriff's Deputies leaning against the front of the store. They both clapped and said "Nice goat!". Such is life in Nevada when the real world meets the nutty world.
I actually don’t know if they were closed for serving seagull... Truthfully, it’s been one of those things that’s been said around town, but I’ve never actually seen it first-hand. Apparently the police confirmed that it was true, but why it wasn’t made available to the public (like in this instance) is beyond me.
I don’t see anything wrong with preparing your own food in your restaurant’s kitchen. I think it’s the image it conjures up that turns people off, in their case. The restaurant is your typical Chinese dive: very small quarters, very hot, very greasy. That, coupled with the butchered deer, probably at the very least created the illusion that something unhealthy was going on.
I’ve always preferred the other Chinese restaurant in town. It’s much, much cleaner and the kitchen is more visible.
Auto-Grilled Venison .........mmmmmmmmm
Buffalo WTF.
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