do the chinese in china eat dog meat, insects, worms,cockroaches, beetles, n still call it a delicacy?

Answer 1

cool

Answer 2

I've never heard of them eating cockroaches, but dogs and cats, yes. Worms and beetles and other insects, maybe, probably. They also eat donkey, and the strangest looking sea animals I have ever seen. Some of these things look like creature invented by Hollywood for a science fiction movie. If you go to a seafood restaurant, you see them displayed in buckets at the door.

Some dogs are considered a delicacy. For example, I was told a St. Bernard is considered a delicacy in the city where I live.

Answer 3

Chinese Eating Insects

Answer 4

The Chinese will eat every thing is a stereotype.
NOT all of the Chinese will eat everything.
BUT there are 1.3 billion people, so there about bound to be different preferences in food.
A few Chinese people like to eat some of the following things:
Live Monkey Brains (crack the head of a live monkey open and pour hot oil... eat).
Various kinds of bugs
Chicken Feet
cow stomach
pig feet
cow penis
sheep testacles
Dog
Cat
Rat
Yak penis
Yak steak
Silkworms
Live shrimp
Live lobster
Chicken Hearts
Cooked blood
Tofu
Stinky Tofu

Most Chinese people do not like to eat ALL of these things. Most Chinese people probably dont like to eat many of these things.

Guangdong province is famous for food. It is there that the stranger delicacies are eaten. More so when you hear that Chinese eat everything, the Chinese themselves would refer to the people in Guangdong.

There are 8 regional cusines in China (Shanghai, Shaoxing, Sicuhan, Guangong, etc) The Food from Guandong is know for the variety. Sichuan is spicy, etc....

Answer 5

Yes!

Not every Chinese eats what in your list. I am a Chinese living in Hong Kong and I hate insects / cockroaches (most) / beetles etc. I love cats and dogs, can't imagine how people can kill them and cook them in the pot.

However, when there are people on this planet think the worms moving in the blue cheese is a delicacy, why Chinese can't eat "cooked" worms or insects?

I saw my relatives in Guangzhou ate fried silkworm (after the cocoon have been boiled in order to get the silk fibre). I tried it but I didn't like the taste, however, it wasn't disgusting at all, the larvae looked like rice crispy coated with white chocolate, tasted like boiled caviar, high protein food.

My friend told me that he tried deep fried scorpions / grasshoppers and the taste was not so good too. I asked "did the chef add salt and pepper?"

Whether people can refer the "food" you listed as delicacy, I believe it all depends on what they like!

You do not like it, but it doesn't mean people in other countries cannot like it.

Be open minded!

Answer 6

But the fact is, the Chinese is not the only one. People all over the world eat stuff that those in the modern cities thump their noses at. Spiders are eaten in Peru, Vietnam. Grubs are eaten in Australia, Africa. Insects are eaten in Thailand, Laos, Cambodia.

And I learn that there is an annual glitterari event in USA that serves up exotic non-normal food like worms, sheep eyes, animal gonads, etc to expensive-paying guests.

Makes me wonder why nick pick on the Chinese all the time. For that matter, why Asians when people in other continents have their own quirky diets too.

Answer 7

No, they do not call these thing "delicacy", they call them "food". In the West, people (mostly) eat only 3 or 4 of the hundreds of edible mammals, a few of the fish, three or four of the bird species, and none of the reptiles. Does that make sense? Western people generally balk at the idea of eating insects, too, which makes ZERO sense since they all do it already! All flour or vegetable products (per FDA regulations and so on) contain "allowable levels" of bug parts because it's impossible to harvest anything withou some bugs getting in! Bon appetit! Here are the US FDA allowable levels for things like "insect filth", "thrips", "mammalian excreta" and "rodent hairs":

Answer 8

It is true that Chinese eat those things. Some are for medicinal properties (eg. cockroaches).

I am in China now and during lunch yesterday and was coaxed by a colleague to try silkworm cocoon. I tasted funny. Probabably the last time that I will eat one.

Answer 9

I've eaten dog at a banquet and it's not too bad! Okay, it was quite dry and bland but other than that.....

I lived in a small poor remote village for a year teaching English, and the local delicacy (I was told) was actually donkey penis! I never saw it served though....I was very disappointed.....

Answer 10

The iban people in Borneo (Sarawak-Where the famous Mulu Cave is), eat sago worm (alive and cook), snakes (especially python meat), bats, jelly like worm, 'litak' (look like a leech but with spiky body) and many more.Even the monkey meat we eat.Pig intestines and etc....anything edible can be eaten...No problemo.

Answer 11

Yes, the Chinese have (maybe out of necessity) made a fine art out of eating anything that is edible.