Last chance for Chinese to enjoy snake-bitten cock-in-a-pot
Filed under: China
Topics covered : Food, Silly Natives
It’s not just Americans and Europeans whose panties get twisted when animals have the nerve to die on camera. Thanks to a widely circulated video, Chinese authorities are banning restaurants from serving “poisonous snake-bitten chicken.” As the name suggests, the chicken must be killed by snake bite. From Reuters:
The dish, served by a small number of eateries in the southern province of Guangdong and the southwestern city of Chongqing, has generated a storm of publicity and controversy in the Chinese media and amongst bloggers.
A video showing a cook holding a snake and forcing it to bite a live chicken until it dies has been widely circulated online, generating mainly angry comments.
“It’s disgusting and really cruel,” wrote one poster on the popular portal sina.com.cn.
“Not only is it cruel and blood-thirsty, but totally amoral,” the Chongqing Business Daily cited a neighbor to one of the restaurants as saying.
Health authorities in Guangdong have already told restaurants to stop serving “poisonous snake-bitten chicken” and now those in Chongqing have joined in.
“Although nobody has been poisoned, this at the very least is an irregular way of slaughtering poultry,” the business newspaper quoted a local health official as saying.
Unable to resist a bit of culinary xenophobia, the reporter then added that Guangdong is known for another unusual dish: monkey brains scooped from a live animal. Short Round was unavailable for comment.
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