No kidding. Here's our little sweetie. No way am I eating rabbit. There's more than enough food in the world; I don't have to eat rabbit.
Posted on 01/20/2008 6:38:29 AM PST by TigerLikesRooster
Yonhap News
"Rabbit meat, unlike sweet meat(translator's note:sweet meat = dog meat), causes no heartburn afterwards, great for your health."
Restaurant districts in Pyongyang are featuring rabbit dishes, and attracting customers, advertising it as 'another sweet meat,' spurred by the recent official drive to raise rabbits for food.
Chosun Shinbo, the official newspaper of General Association of Koreans in Japan(pro-North front organization,) reported on Jan. 20, "Among Pyongyang's restaurants, there are quite a few service units which provide various rabbit dishes. These days rabbit stew is as popular as sweet meat stew."
According to the paper, when famine hit during mid 1990's in N. Korea, following the Worker's Party directive "Turn grass into meat," the authorities started to encourage people to raise rabbits to produce meat by feeding grass. Factories, enterprises, schools, military units, and even households have been raising rabbits.
As many people are raising rabbits, Pyongyang city authorities drew up the plan to open restaurants specializing in rabbit meat in each of its district or county since last year. They designated a restaurant complex at Botonggang District as a showcase, after which rabbit meat restaurants began to increase in numbers.
Especially Mundok St. Restaurant at Daesung District is quite popular among customers for its delicious rabbit dishes.
Its best dish is a rabbit stew. To make it, they marinate 2.5 inch slice of rabbit meat, fry it with oil and boil it with gingko, chestnut, and (Chinese) date. People love it, calling it "rabbit health stew."
Kim Hyang-won(age:43), the restaurant's manager, explained, "My restaurant was originally famous for stew dishes such as sweet meat stew with rice, but recently customers like rabbit health stew better than sweet meat dishes."
Park Jin-gook(age:58), its customer, said, "They say you could get sick by having sweet meat stew in the middle of winter, if you are not healthy enough, but with rabbit stew, there is no such problem. It tastes so good that I might have it even in summer(translator's note: summer is the peak season of sweet meat stew.)"
posted: 2008.01.20 10:16
No kidding. Here's our little sweetie. No way am I eating rabbit. There's more than enough food in the world; I don't have to eat rabbit.
The varmits (jacks) absolutely SWARM between Escalante and Ruby's Inn in Utah! one evening I managed to hit 5 while driving between those 2 towns, and I was TRYING to avoid them!
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