Thursday, September 08, 2005

check please

Chinese restaurant raided for selling tiger urine dish: "A restaurant in northeast China has been raided and closed for listing stir fried-tiger meat on its menu, a dish that turned out to be donkey dressed with tiger urine.

The 'Hufulou' restaurant in Hailin city in Heilongjiang province is located barely one kilometre (less than a mile) from the Hengdaohezi Siberian Tiger Park, home to a species listed as one of the 10 most endangered in the world.

It was offering a dish of stir-fried tiger meat with hot peppers for 800 yuan (98 dollars), and raw tiger meat at 7,000 yuan (863 dollars) a kilogram, the China Daily reported Thursday.

Diners could wash it down with a bottle of wine pickled with tiger bone.

When asked how the restaurant obtained the meat, a waiter reportedly said the owner had good connections within the tiger park and got the meat of dead tigers.

Police subsequently raided the restaurant and the owner confessed the so-called tiger meat was actually donkey meat dressed with tiger urine to give it a 'special' flavour."

3 Comments:

Blogger The Burtons said...

makes you wonder what they are serving here in the restaurants doesn't it?

4:24 AM  
Blogger jen said...

yeah, I dont think its real shrimp...

3:09 PM  
Blogger The Burtons said...

does meow mean anything to you

3:20 PM  

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