[chief lee runamok]

In the Philippines street vendors sold bbq'd shish kabobs of monkey meat.

Tasted just like pork.

[dynachrome]

I’ve had curried goat. It was good.

[Farmerbob]

What’s the time period? My wife is from the rural area of the PI and says monkeys are pretty much rare, endangered, and FAR more valuable as pets. Someone probably sold you cat, rat, or dog and told it was monkey meat.

[virgil]

The damn Chinese can fill their gullets with monkey meat then. Poor little donkeys.

[Fiji Hill]

In the Philippines street vendors sold bbq'd shish kabobs of monkey meat.
Tasted just like pork.

Monkey Hips & Rice--The Five Royales (1954)

[fini]

"In the Philippines street vendors sold bbq'd shish kabobs of monkey meat. Tasted just like pork."

It tasted like pork or chicken because it was pork or chicken. One of my friends, while stationed in the Phillipines, married a bar fly that "danced in a bar" in Olongapo. She told me that it was sold as monkey meat, so Americans would buy it, because it sounded exotic. Since it was pork or chicken, the Americans bought it a second or third time. She asked me, how many monkey would have to be caught every day to feed all of the American Marines and sailors? Makes sense.

OBTW, she turned out to be a great wife. They had a pile of kids (she is Catholic) and she kept them on a short rope and treats her husband like a king.