Posted on 04/12/2025 4:35:43 AM PDT by DFG
A Chinese restaurant in Madrid has been shut down for serving street pigeons as “roast duck”.
Police raided the Jin Gu restaurant, in the city’s Usera district, late last month, finding a pair of plucked pigeons in a cockroach-infested secret storage room alongside bags of dubious-looking meat and sea creatures protected under Spanish law.
Officers said they believed the birds had been grabbed from the streets and killed in the restaurant kitchen, with the owner, who was arrested, intending to pass them off as the traditional Chinese delicacy.
“It is not illegal to breed pigeons in Spain, but there was no paperwork for these birds or almost any of the meat products in the kitchen, so we are pretty sure they were street pigeons,” a spokesman for Madrid’s local police told The Telegraph.
While inspecting a filthy bathroom that was being used as a storeroom, police discovered a wall shelf that slid to one side to reveal a hidden door.
Behind it, they found a cockroach-infested room in which strips of defrosted animal flesh were drying on a plastic clothes horse.
Eight rusted freezers without functioning thermometers were stuffed with bags of meat, fish and seafood that had apparently not been purchased through legal channels, including sea cucumbers that were possibly of a species banned from trade in Spain.
Sacks of bivalve molluscs were also found, which police believed came from Asian wetlands. On the floor were rat traps that had been set with putrid meat.
According to police, the secret store contained “more than a ton of foodstuffs of untraceable origin”.
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I am shocked to learn that the chinese would lie, cheat, and steal for profit.
lol...
No cats?
Tastes kinda like spotted owl.
There were always jokes about NY Chinese restaurants and the pigeons in Central Park. Pigeon can be deceptively served as roasted squab, but is too small to get away with calling it roasted Chinese duck.
LOL
Poppy, to Jerry and his date: These-a ducks were just flown in from Newfoundland.
The sign out front said....
Yes, we open. No, we no see your cat.
And speaking of pigeons.....Way back when people ate what they could catch or kill, people would have pigeons and when these pigeons would raise babies, the people would go to the nest and tie a string to the babies leg. Then they would wait until the big pigeons had the little ones about raised and they would then harvest them.
Smother it in Hoisin sauce and it’s not bad.
“Diversity is what makes us strong.”
Yuck
Screaming enviro whackos incoming .....
foodstuffs of untraceable origin
Mystery meat !
A lot of people have that dish photo saved on their phones, it would be fun to read their comments made at the time they were commenting on their meal.
“”””I am shocked to learn that the chinese would lie, cheat, and steal for profit.””””
The people in China have no honor, period, no dignity, no sense of right and wrong, they will never have the proud reputation and respect that the Japanese have in the world.
I agree 109%
Japanese Americans are awesome and make best friends. Avoid Chinese like the covid.
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