Crouching Tiger, Hidden Donkey

[ramonmercado]

Thu Sep 8, 1:46 AM ET

BEIJING (Reuters) - The cat is out of the bag at a restaurant in northeast China that had been serving donkey meat spiked with tiger urine in pricey dishes advertised as endangered Siberian tigers.

Local media in Heilongjiang province got wind that the restaurant was offering stir-fried dishes and medicinal liquor made from tiger meat and bones, sparking local police and health inspectors to pounce, the China Daily said on Thursday.

"After inspection, the owner confessed that the so-called tiger meat was donkey meat that had been dressed with tiger urine to give the dish a 'special' flavour," the newspaper said.

The restaurant had been charging as much as 800 yuan (53.80 pounds) a dish for the illegal, "rare" fare, tapping into traditional Chinese belief that tiger meat has aphrodisiacal properties.

The restaurant was shut down and fined and the director of the nearby Hengdaohezi Siberian Tiger Park, China's largest centre for breeding the highly endangered animals, reassured the public there was no way meat from its big cats had made its way to the dinner table, the newspaper said.

Only a few hundred Siberian tigers are believed to be alive in the wild in their native habitats of northern China, southern Russia and parts of North Korea.

The report did not explain where the tiger urine had come from or how it was collected.

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[Degrizzzz]

Hmm, collecting Tiger Urine, possibly the only p1ssy job I havent had..

 

[Mighty_Emperor]

Its all jolly confusing - why would adding tiger urine to donkey meat make people think it as tiger?

Also are they being prosecuted for offering tiger meat or for ripping off their customers for pretending it was tiger meat?

In fact shouldn't we be encourging this type of activity? If people are eating pissy donkey meat and getting the "benefit" then that would seem to be A Good Thing - I'm sure the tigers would have a chuckle over it

"Shere Khan get over here and wee on this donkey - help save the species and all that"

 

[MaxMolyneux]

Its all jolly confusing - why would adding tiger urine to donkey meat make people think it as tiger?

Also are they being prosecuted for offering tiger meat or for ripping off their customers for pretending it was tiger meat?

In fact shouldn't we be encourging this type of activity? If people are eating pissy donkey meat and getting the "benefit" then that would seem to be A Good Thing - I'm sure the tigers would have a chuckle over it

"Shere Khan get over here and wee on this donkey - help save the species and all that"

They should be prosecuted for false advertising.

Wonder what the people who have eaten there thinknow that they have eat tiger wee? :lol:

I've heard of soups using tigers penis too!

 

[fluffle9]

It serves anyone who wants to eat the meat of such a rare animal right if it turns out to be piss-soaked donkey meat.