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Q: Did chinese really eat the dogs?!!!!!

11 years 31 weeks ago in  General  - China

 
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Did, and still do. I've unknowingly have had some for lunch. Found out late it was Rover stew.

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  Yeh, why the hell not? It's just meat, tried it myself.

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Eaten dog, cat, rat, snake, bird, scorpion, tiger, giraffe, sea slugs, silk works, various bits and organs of more species than I care to count and I have even eaten stuff that to me is so vile, I won't even mention it.

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I just eat bugs here........nothing more.......and remember i lived in guangdong for six years and in guangdong they can eat everything

Xpat.John:

I lived in Guangzhou for 5 years.  That is where I had almost all of my culinary 'adventures'.  :)

 

As the saying goes, "People in Guangdong will eat anything that moves and will pour sauce over anything that doesn't."

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I ate the fried grasshoppers in Isaan and Lao. Crunchy and salty,, kinda like popcorn ! Never worked up the nerve to eat one of those giant black cockroach looking things, but I knew a black guy from the States who ate them, said he liked 'em.

too much for me!

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'Did' is past-tense.   So, the answer to your question is yes, the Chinese people by and large did eat dog meat.

You may be interested to know it is still done today, not just in China, but in many countries.

 

I once happened to be walking by local restaurant that specialized in dog. The cook was dragging a dog back to the kitchen, had a rope around it's neck. I'll never forget how scared that dog looked/acted. It knew it was about to get whacked! I thought that was amazing that it knew. Perhaps other animal species are more sentient than we usually give them credit for.

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  They are, I once had an alsation set on me. It ran 100 yards barking madly but I stayed calm as a coma and once it reached me it just sniffed my balls and fucked off. Dogs know what's going on inside you, just the same as how Darth Vadar always knows what Luke's got for Christmas; they can feeel your presence.

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yeah, I nearly got attacked by two junk-yard dogs one time. My own stupid fault, but it scared the merde' outta me !    one of those things that have to be experienced to be understood, but definitely once of those things best never to experience.

http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2012/08/18/georgia-woman-killed-by-dogs-she-was-rescuing/

just teach your kids that dogs are animals. No matter how they are portrayed sometimes. Careful around animals.

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sure. and dog's meat are quite good

I tried once, on the purpose
spotted it in small restaurant near Xiaoshan (Zhejiang), and asked my host if I can try

just meat

 

this one was probably smoked, because meat was quite dry, and dark
we ate it with the salt (mixed with some spices) 

 

 

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North east people eat dogs too, especially Chinese korean.

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Yeah there are special dog restaurants.

 

So just know where you're eating and you should be fine.

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They still eat dogs. In Jixian, Tianjin, dog is very popular dish.

 

I ate it once last year. It looks and tastes similar as beef or venison. Chinese with me at the table, they told me about dog after my third try. I felt like am lab mice...bastardi

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They did and still do, it is considered a delicacy in Guangxi and Guangdong.

 

However, they breed a particular type of dog for food, it isn't just a case of 'grab a poodle shave it, spit it and eat it'.

 

Personally that is one animal too far for me and in my time I've eaten most things, but I draw the line at dogs and monkeys. (No I haven't seen monkeys being served in China, that was somewhere else.)

 

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Don't be so shocked, I am pretty sure that you have done so without your knowledge.

 

Have you ever tried this small grilled barbecue stick sold in the street......if you have eaten one of those, there is a small chance that you got to eat dog meat too. If you're lucky enough to have avoided dog meat....well, cat meat is also used sometimes.

 

 

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I accidently ate dog before. It was at a person's house for New Year's, and that was in Zhejiang province in a town outside of Jinhua.

derek:

..and they didn't think to tell you what you were eating? What was your reaction?

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Well, I arrived at my student's house a few days before New Years, and I kept asking "what's this" because I didn't recognize any of the things we were eating. So she told me to stop asking and just enjoy the food. So New Years comes, her family is over at her house, and I sit down next to one of her grandmas, who probably doesn't even speak Mandarin. She's jabbing me with her elbow and pointing at some meat, so I'm like ok grandma, I'll eat it. All the meat looked the same, there was no way to know at the time. Later I ask my student what it is, she says "Oh, that's dog meat. I would never eat that." I don't know how I didn't just flip out at her, but somehow I managed to keep my calm.

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Yes, unfortunately they do. they should eat more rats, There is a flood of them in China.

 One night in Guilin I saw steel crates full of puppies being loaded on a cycle truck. the pup were so crammed in , they could not stand, The men were pushing steel rods through the cages to pick them up, puppies were just screaming. I asked my Gf several times about this , never got an answer. I knew where the puppies were headed. I later saw pictures of puppies in these type crate for meat. they were not just the street type dogs I see, but a mix of long and short haired dogs. i am very much against eating companion animals. They are smart and evolved to live and help us, not to be eaten. Dogs and cats were never domesticated, they evolved to live with us as partners.

Xpat.John:

Within 5k of my home in Guangzhou, there are 3 restaurants that specialize in rat.

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Asia has so many rats, it really grossed me out. My entire life I have seen one rat. I live rural, never seen a rat at home, yet in China (Thailand etc) they run every where at night

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Maybe that is the only way to get meat. Every time I orderd duck or chicken, I got bones. Then there was that bowl of chicken asshole soup ( arteries)

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Yes..but mainly in winter season..

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In Jilin province we saw quite a few dog-meat restaurants. It seems to be a Korean dish but not only the ethnic Koreans ate dog meat but also many Chinese enjoyed these places. 

          

diverdude1:

I've been in a dog-meat wet market somewhere in suburbia Seoul. It was a sight to see! Dozens of butcher shops set up for dog. Half dogs roasting on spits over coals. To me the meat looked too red and smelled foul. Well, I thought it was fkn gross,, still do.

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Not all Chinese enjoy eating dogs, and many people love dogs the way the westerners do. Chinese in the South do in colder days believed it is good for health, and people in the North do by the influence of the Koreans.

 

FYI. Almost every Korean eats dog meat I believe.

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silly you no they didnt' 

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