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Old January 12th, 2006, 02:29 PM posted to soc.culture.china,rec.travel.asia
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Default What food do you think of when you think of Beijing?


J.Venning wrote:
Correction, they do. I don't mean to contradict you just for the sake of
it, but the topic had intrigued me for quite a while, so I took the trouble
of asking my acquaintances in Beijing about dog meat. Yes, dog meat is
served as a dish, but only few specialised restaurants offer them, and they
use they meat from dogs which are specially raised for food - chow-chow -
not just any ordinary house-pet dogs. No, I didn't bother to taste it,
although whilst in Chicago last summer, I did taste "Cajon alligator" at the
"Taste of Chicago" food fair - nuttin' to it, could have been pork for all I
know. Whilst we are on the subject of food (I love eating), why hasn't
anyone here condemned the eating of frogs, snails (yuk!), or even raw
oysters in the Western World ?
J.

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They don't eat dogs up there..


China has a long tradition, likely thousands of years, treating dogs as
both pet and food depending on the region. In general treating dog as
food in the northern part of China is not as popular as the south, like
Canton.