Chinese health authorities are putting a stop to restaurants serving chickens which have been bitten to death by poisonous snakes and cooked up for a supposedly detoxing meal.
The dish, served by a small number of eateries in the southern province of Guangdong and the southwestern city of Chongqing, has generated a storm of publicity and controversy in the Chinese media and amongst bloggers.
A video showing a cook holding a snake and forcing it to bite a live chicken until it dies has been widely circulated online.
One dish, prized among some in Guangdong, is monkey brains scooped from a live animal, which has regularly upset animal rights campaigners in the West.
I also think it's cruel to throw live crabs in BOILING water....it's so brutal. I saw some videos on youtube... such a horrible horrible thing to do to a living thing! :(
I also think it's cruel to throw live crabs in BOILING water....it's so brutal. I saw some videos on youtube... such a horrible horrible thing to do to a living thing! :(
I heard that because lobsters and crabs are cold blooded animals, they cant feel the pain. But how would we know, its not that we ever were lobster of crab in our life.
I remember going to Florida, where they pull the claws off the crabs, then throw them back into the water…apparently the claws eventually grow back.
RE: china, i have no issues with it, it’s condusive to their demographic…just like westerners find it strange that koreans eat cats and dogs… yes they are domesticated animals here in the west, but not in korea…
We all eat dead animals at the end Maroush, so yes, how the animal was killed should not matter, but it does matter, You cannot just torture the animal to death.
I've seen this food show where Japanese restaurants slice the meat off a live fish and serve it so quickly that the muscle is still twitching right on the plate.. all in the name of unique presentation and showing culinary skills..
Just adding further to this, when the hubby and I were in Korea, we went to a restaurant, and hubby ordered Sannakji…it’s octopus served live and raw…and still moving on the plate…yerrrcchhhh…
I stuck to the Blowfish (known as BokUh in S.Korea and Fugu in Japan)…i’d rather eat that, than a live octopus…
legs chopped off from a live baby octupus. head eaten whole first cuz its the most delicious. then legs while they r still twitching. served with korean pepper sauce. and yes ONE BITE AT A TIME! :D
Well, you can have it cut into pieces or served whole…Mr Maroush obviously opted for the latter…
You have to cut it up, and make sure (esp if you’re a newbie) that you chew it thoroughly before swallowing…there was this waiter watching over us at the restaurant, and my hubby told him that he cold feel the pieces still wriggling as he swallowed…the waiter flipped!!! He said you have to chew it really a lot, unless you want to choke… something to do with the suction cups sticking to the throat…
sick ppl!
