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| Chinese restaurant's "Tiger Meat" actually donkey meat in tiger urine |
| 2005-09-08 |
| A restaurant in northeastern China that advertised illegal tiger meat dishes was found instead to be selling donkey flesh marinated in tiger urine, a newspaper reported Thursday. It's the marinade that makes the flavor. The Hufulou restaurant, located beside the Heidaohezi tiger reserve near the city of Hailin, had advertised stir-fried tiger meat with chilies for $98 as well as liquor flavored with tiger bone for $74 a bottle, the China Daily reported. The sale of tiger parts is illegal in China and officers shut down the restaurant, only to be told by owner, Ma Shikun, that the meat was actually that of donkeys, flavored with tiger urine to give the dish a "special" tang, the newspaper said. The report didn't say how the urine was obtained. And I don't want to know. Authorities confiscated the restaurant's profits and fined Ma $296 it said. Well, they are communists. It wasn't clear what Ma was fined for. Selling donkey meat is not illegal in China and it is widely consumed in the northeast. Um, this is kind of "out there," but maybe perhaps selling food soaked in piss is a health violation? You know, maybe Mucky has a point... |
| Posted by:MSM |
| #5 I'd be mighty pissed if they didn't marinate my filet of donkey in tiger urine. Wouldn't you be? |
| Posted by: Chris W. 2005-09-08 23:51 |
| #4 The people who paid $98 to eat something known to be illegal got what they deserved. GIves new meaning to the term "Caveat Emptor." BTW, back in the '70s, Italian Health officials cracked down on restaurants that catered to tourists. Seems they were adding ox blood to the wine and marble dust to the flour. |
| Posted by: mom 2005-09-08 19:58 |
| #3 Well, thanks for making me lose my appetite for dinner. Think you can come up with something stomach-churning every evening about 5 PM, Central? Maybe at about 7 and 11 AM, too? As a diet plan this could really take off the pounds. CSI usually does it for me, but it's only on a couple of times a week. |
| Posted by: Sgt. Mom 2005-09-08 19:50 |
| #2 Patrons were reportedly p-o'd when they found out. |
| Posted by: Mike 2005-09-08 19:07 |
| #1 I have to figure that this restaurant works differently from regular ones - they pay the patrons $98 to eat this stuff. |
| Posted by: Zhang Fei 2005-09-08 19:04 |