You’ll want to skip restaurants bearing the official Olympic logo, for dogmeat is off the menu. This is probably just a cosmetic regulation as most ordinary restaurants in Beijing don’t serve dogmeat dishes anyway.
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I have the address of a Hakka restaurant serving 멍멍이, but rather in the form of a kind of stew. But it’s down south.
That’s quite coincidental. If you Google Image ‘cats’ one of the first pages you’ll see is cages of cats at a Chinese market. I hadn’t known that the Chinese favored cooked cat as a delicacy. Reading some of the commentary, apparently, like Korea, beating them to death is the best way to tenderize them.
Well, I know what I can do with my cats should they threaten to strike from their jobs as professional loafers.
When I lived in Guangzhou, my coworkers told me that dog was primarily eaten in Winter, because it is a “hot” food. (Koreans eat in summer, apparently for the same reason.)
They also said that Beijingers were more picky about which animals they eat.
This brings me memory… Went to Beijing many times but I only saw it in typical Northeast style restaurant(东北饭馆). Since Northeast is not an region know for good food so I did not bother to have one. Others told me it is also found in Hunan style 相菜 place, but never seen one offering it. However, four years ago at meat specialty restaurant in Shenzhen, I had the opportunity to order North Korean style dog meat (朝鲜香肉), needless to say it didn’t look or taste anything remotely close to the 보신탕 course meal I had ten years ago in Pusan.
Unfortunately I had western colleague with me at Shenzhen and my choice of having that meal caused me many troubles with people at work. Thank God I have a understanding boss.
Advice to you all who want to try, please keep it to yourself and don’t let others (non-Asians or Animal lovers) know!!!
Sorry to hear about your troubles from the dining experience.
Dog meat dishes face many “sensibility” issues. My grandfather once told me that in 1930’s Manchuria, restaurants serving dog meat were easy to find. But by 1970’s in Taipei, I think there were only 3-4 dog meat restaurants clustered together on a street. Today they’re long gone.
In some northern Chinese restaurants you can still find “fake dog meat” dishes made with pork. The idea is to make to pork look and taste like dog meat, except most chefs have no idea what real dog meat dishes look or taste like.
As far as I know cat as food is relatively rare outside of a few southern provinces & SE Asia. I’ve never seen a restaurant that served kitties, though my Viet friends used to joke about “little tiger” meat at my maine coon kitty years ago.
I doubt dog and cat meat will be legal for consumption in East Asia by my grand children’s time. Though I wonder if foie gras from force-fed goose will still be around? Will the kids of tomorrow still eat escargot cooked in garlic butter?
“Menu: Horse penis and testicles with a chilli dip”
http://www.chinadaily.com.cn/e.....521375.htm
Yes, one of my first ‘only in Korean’ words was
haegooshin
My Dong-A dictionary defined it as ‘the penis of a sea bear’. Well, I suppose if you needed some bear meat in your diet, it’s immaterial whether is came from land or sea.
I would have written the word in Korean but I can’t figure out how to set the keyboard up for Hangul.
A few years back, in the noisy Chinese restaurant at Novotel, one of my friends asked if I would have any problem with “duck meat”. I said, “No,why not?”.
When the dish came out… I realized that he meant “dog meat”.
It was ironic that he was a Canadian and I am a Korean.
A few years back, in the noisy Chinese restaurant at Novotel Beijing, one of my friends asked if I would have any problem with “duck meat”. I said, “No,why not?”.
When the dish came out… I realized that he meant “dog meat”.
It was ironic that he was a Canadian and I am a Korean.