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.
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.