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Restaurateurs in a southern Chinese town are holding an annual dog meat festival despite international criticism.
Eateries reached by phone in Yulin reported brisk business Sunday during the event marking the summer solstice. They say eating dog meat is traditional, while activists say the festival has no cultural value and was invented to drum up business.
As many as 10,000 dogs, many of them stolen pets, are slaughtered for the occasion held deep in the largely rural and poor Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region.
Celebrities such as British comedian Ricky Gervais and Brazilian supermodel Gisele Bundchen have called for an end to the festival.
Dog is eaten in some parts of China but is not a common dish.
Be careful when ordering the 'hot dog.' Incidentally, 'hot dog' is also Mandarin slang for 'cop.' Complex eaters, the Chinese.
Original Submission
(Score: 5, Funny) by wonkey_monkey on Wednesday June 24 2015, @12:22PM
Have your pet spade
Have some decorum, man. Use a knife and fork like everyone else.
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(Score: 2) by Runaway1956 on Wednesday June 24 2015, @01:32PM
Uhhmmmm, I think you missed the fact that the story is about CHINESE people eating dog meat. I'm no expert on Chinese cuisine, but don't they use chop sticks an awful lot? But, you're right that they probably don't use spades at the dining room table, any more than we do.
(Score: 2, Informative) by Francis on Wednesday June 24 2015, @01:40PM
We use chopsticks for everything except soup here. Even corn on the cob.
I've only had meat dog once and it was tender enough that knives aren't needed. I have no idea about pet dogs as you're not supposed to eat them.
Btw, I'm not Chinese I just live in the prc right now. And eating dogs here seems to be getting less and less popular in general. You have to look for it as most restaurants don't offer it. And you'll probably have to be able to read or speak Chinese as the owners usually won't suggest it.
(Score: 2) by FatPhil on Thursday June 25 2015, @12:55PM
Worse, it contained noodles that were so slippery it was impossible to bite them with my teeth (and consider again the chopstick friction issues I mentioned above), so they kept just slipping sideways. Once I'd committed to a bunch of noodles, I'd be swallowing them for about 10 consecutive gulps - some noodles that I could still see one end of would already be partly in my stomach. I described the experience to my g/f as 'deep throating my soup'. Finally it was served with crushed ice. No matter, it was an extremely hot day for a balto-nordic wimp like me.
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