This is not for those who love cute, cuddly puppies more than their mind is open. If you feel you may be offended, please don't watch this, but it's here to open eyes to other cultures in the world.
From
JapanProbe via
Neatorama:
In this interesting clip, a Japanese reporter visits a North Korean restaurant in China that specializes in high quality dog meat.
Before visiting the restaurant, the film crew also visits a North Korean souvenir shop in Bangkok, which was selling a variety of goods from herbal viagra called Youngeron to Da Vinci works copied by North Korea’s finest artists.
They then head for Northern China, where a North Korean restaurant has recently opened. The restaurant specializes in dog meat dishes, and the reporter orders their most famous item: dog meat galpi in a sauce with vegetables. It’s tender and not too bad. The shot of the menu reveals the prices for dishes to be around 25 to 35 yuan (about 3 to 5 US Dollars), which isn’t so bad…..for North Korean dog meat.
[update]
Original video died with no exact replacement. A reasonable facsimile used instead. It is a Vietnamese dog meat restaurant instead of a North Korean one. For detailed photographs of the cruelty dealt to doggie livestock in preparation for consumption in South Korea, view
this video. Be warned, it may be extremely difficult to watch as live dogs are hanged and others are shown gutted.
13 Comments
Claytonsays...I spent a year in S. Korea and had asked my then S. Korean girlfiend to take me to a restaurant that served gaegogi because I wanted too try it. Just out of curiousity, novelty. Sadly, we never got around to it. She did warn me however that, contrary to the following wiki, the dish was rather pricey ~ $30-$40, maybe it was just where she had been planning to take me. While she had a little dog as a pet, most seemed to view dogs in much the same way as we view pigs. No "special species" status, no preferential treatment. I can respect that.
Some interesting details regarding gaegogi can be found here:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dog_meat#Korea
doremifaThey value Shih Tzu dogs only - or at least have Shih Tzus as decorative pets and do not eat them.
gwaanA friend of mine was talking about eating dog meat last night. He said that the meat is very tender and delicious and that the first time he ate it he got to meet the dog beforehand!
couplandsays...Hey I'd try it. I'll *try* anything, I just can't promise to like it. So yeah, pigeon and horse taste great, jellyfish and pig's ear... not so much.
antYou guys better not eat ants.
I know, there are poeplw who dio.
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lucky760Ummm, yeah... No.
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jimnmsAwww, why not? The catsanddogs channel description says "This group is for the dog and cat fancier," and the Vietnamese obviously fancy their dogs, in a sauce with vegetables.
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