Another Eeeek Moment !

[mikey4444]

Giant python: Indonesians eat huge snake after man defeats reptile

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-41507967

Double yuck, with knobs on.

[hereIam]

THEY look at us in disgust and yet they boil poor dogs alive !!

[marval]

Snake and chips tonight mikey?

[EcclesCake]

A walk through a Chinese market will have cats, dogs, badgers, snakes, foxes, all manner of sources of protein. Just like we eat lamb, pork, beef and chicken. Different strokes for different folks.

[DTCwordfan]

More the Vietnamese, hereIam, though I have seen dogs in cases in Macau, not in the mainland.

[DTCwordfan]

rats, hedgehogs, civet, scorpions, various testicles, monkeys too

[EcclesCake]

You haven't visited Qingping market then DTC.

[DTCwordfan]

Nope - near the White Swan where I've stayed a number of times.

Ate out on a boat in the river and managed to divert my host from buying water rat to hedgehog. I could joke a sharp taste but actually it was quite pleasant, naturally peppery. This was probably the only time I baulked as my credo is to try things at least once before condemning it - after all, it is their culture and not ours (to Mikey and hereIam). The one thing I could not get my head around was the 'o-rings' of turtles and tortoises, a texture thing for the Chinese.

Lastly, there's a lot of variation in cuisine across China but generally one doesn't see sheep on the menu in the south - and correspondingly (other than ducks and geese) birds northwards from Hangzhou....(Mao had a thing about eliminating birds - guess that was a little better than what Adolf did).

[EcclesCake]

Yeah I had to slum it at the White San too.

[DTCwordfan]

remember that amazing jade ship in the lobby, all carved from one block of rock http://www.birdcrossstitch.com/ChinaTrip/Pc300059a.jpg