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If you're looking to eat some chicken killed by snake bite, and isn't everyone, China is no longer the place to go:
China's health authorities are reported to be putting a stop to restaurants serving chickens which have been bitten to death by poisonous snakes.Other Chinese delicacies still apparently available: "monkey brains scooped from a live animal, civet cat and deer foetus soup". Right.
posted by Anonymous at 7:58 PM |
4 Comments:
I'm surprised the rest of us have any food left.
A Cantonese friend likes to say, "Anything with four legs which is not a table can be eaten." Obviously, this is true in Southern China.
I think they worked out one of the recent 'flu epidemics crossed into humans via people who ate civets. One good reason why we shouldn't eat everything with four legs.
I must confess I've eaten a beetle, a raw sea urchin, snails and frogs legs. But I wouldn't be daring enough to eat a chicken killed by snake bite.
But surely once the venom is cooked...
One would think so, bingbing - Wikipedia tells me most snake venoms aren't venomous when ingested. But still - what if the chicken wasn't heated properly? I wouldn't try it. Nor would I try fugu, for that matter. Call me cautious...
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