Former Chinese Restaurant Employee Tells All

Epoch Times ^ | Jun 19, 2006 | Epoch Times

[lafroste]

I went to a restaurant in Guangzhou once, and was invited out back by my host to select the meal's entrees (they were living in barrels or buckets or pens behind the restaurant). He pointed at one bucket and asked (in awful English) "you want that?" I looked down, then back up, smiled politely and said "Thank you no. I had beetles for lunch."

[spectre]

Doesn't surprise me. But I saw THIS on Fox today. It's Gourmet coffee brewed up from the coffee beans after it's passed thru a rodent type little animal.

"Kopi luwak is a rare gourmet coffee, with less than 300 kilograms available each year at an accepted market price of approximately $1,000 per kilogram although it is available for less than the market price here on this site. Kopi luwak is produced in the stomach of an animal which limits the supply and adds to the air of mystery surrounding this most unusual beverage".

Mystery? The beans are "pooped" out WHOLE, retrived from the pile of "waste" then ground up to be sold..yuk.

"Animalcoffee" has a variety of kopi luwak products for anyone perverted enough to want this :)

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[HiTech RedNeck]

soooooooooooooooooup of the eeeeeeeeeeeeeeeevening, beauuuuuuuuuuuuuuutiful sooooooooooooooup

[TheLion]

"McDonald's sounds pretty good at this point."

Exactly what I was thinking as I read this.

[ADemocratNoMore]

8/29/05

MENTOR, Ohio -- Animal cruelty charges have been filed against two men after a goat is found tied up at a Mentor restaurant, NewsChannel5 reported.

Police say they got a tip call Tuesday that the goat was being held, hog-tied, behind the Grand Buffet Restaurant, along with 13 caged pigeons.

Police arrested 30-year-old Yu Zheng, of Geneva, and 35-year-old He En Liu, of Macon, Ga.

The Lake County Humane Society now has the goat as the animal recovers.

The humane society's Candance Hertzel says it is very unusual for them to get calls about farm animals.

It is not known why the men were keeping the animals captive.

Someone has already volunteered to take the pigeons as pets.

The Lake County Health Department is also conducting an investigation.

As a follow up, while not in the article, I recall that the folks in question said they were keeping the animals as pets.

[ADemocratNoMore]

> Mystery? The beans are "pooped" out WHOLE, retrived from the pile of "waste" then ground up to be sold..yuk.

I understand that in some parts of Asia a durian that has been through an elephant's digestive tract is similarly considered a delicacy.

[Fawn]

Well...I know for a fact that in Ft Erie Ontario, Canada years ago....the chinese restaraunts were busted for selling cat meat as chicken. After I read that I NEVER went to a chinese restaraunt and bought meat..EVER. Always just vegetables if I had to go....it's my personal boycott.

[ThanhPhero]

Eating out in most countries in Asia is an outstanding diet plan

When I go to Viet Nam I do not eat in the Restaurants. I eat in the stalls and the housefronts that have one or two small tables and a cooker, that serve only one item. You find the stall that serves what you want and it doesn't really matter because it is all delicious. You follow certain rules when you eat this way like eating only what has been cooked and don't drink the water unless it is served in a sealed bottle and is a major brand, or drink beer instead. The locals pretty much follow those rules, too. I got sick briefly once but that was from a bad cham cham fruit that I should have recognized. The only cooked dish that I found that I do not like is duck eggs. Southeast Asian food is nearly all superb and Vietnamese is the best of the best.

[ThanhPhero]

n Southern China, they would eat anything that moved, and most things that didn't.

In Viet Nam the Viets say that about the Chinese. The Chinese in Viet Nam say that about China.

[ThanhPhero]

I don't think anybody makes chinese food better than America.

What you are eating in those Chinese Restaurants is American Chinese food. It is truly not the same thing as the indigenous fare. You will never see foetus on the menu in San Francisco or New York.

[ThanhPhero]

I understand that in some parts of Asia a durian that has been through an elephant's digestive tract is similarly considered a delicacy.The Durian (sau rieng) is not, in fact, processed through a pachyderm, not in Viet Nam, at least. It's smell gives rise to many interesting tales about its origin, even told by the people who farm it and those who eat it. It smells sort of like a er hmm...a sewer that flows past a chemical factory beside a paper mill. You are not allowed to carry one onto a train or airplane. But the taste is heavenly. Somehow the taste is quite divorced from the smell. I had not thought that possible until I tried one of these fruits.I only forced myself to try it because the first time I went back to Viet Nam I vowed to myself that I would eat anything that anyone put in front of me at least twice before I rejected anything. I only turned off on duck eggs.

[martin gibson]

read Anthony Bourdain's Kitchen Confidential.

[ThanhPhero]

After I read that I NEVER went to a chinese restaraunt and bought meat..EVER. Always just vegetables

And just what do you think you are eating when you eat just the "vegetables?"

[Rannug]

I always wondered what kind of meat was on those bamboo sticks. When asked, they would usually say "no speaky, no speaky." Had to neutralize that rot gut beer somehow. Oh, to have the stomach now that I had then.

[Seamoth]

I have a Chinese friend. He maintains that almost everything you hear about Chinese restaurants is true...

[ThanhPhero]

Had to neutralize that rot gut beer somehow

The beer now is as good as Phillipino beer. They added another "3" to 33 (now it is 333 beer) and quit using formaldehyde and battery acid so it no longer has that those distinctive tastes that Bia Ba Muoi Ba had during the war. It's good stuff, far superior to anything called "lite."

[ThanhPhero]

that almost everything you hear about Chinese restaurants is true...

Now go into the kitchen at any Mexican restaurant in your town. My buddy is an appliance repair business and does most of the various oriental restaurants in town and the Mexican ones, too. There is only one Chinese out of a score of them that Steve will go into to eat and no Mexican ones. That contrasts with the Korean and Vietnamese restaurants and the lone Thai restaurant that Steve says are pretty sharp. The Japanese are mostly spotless (one exception).

[mt tom]

the real serious offense with the goat being tied up was some terrorist would only be getting 71 virgins

[Fawn]

Pea Pods? Celery? WHat are you getting at?

[Guenevere]

Interesting piece.

The closest I've come to eating authentic Chinese (I guess) is the DimSum I had in Santa Monica 5 years ago......two exchange students Chinese Americans (that we had met at church) took us there.

I had no idea what I was eating....I just know the Chrysthanthemum tea had real flowers floating in it......and I was very sleepy shortly after.