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

Answer 1

Dog meat is eaten in China, USA, Korea
Dog meat is also eaten in place where there is famine

Insects and worms are eaten in lots of countries (cockroaches and beetles included)

A delicacy for some.
Squirmish for others.

Go to a Chinese medicine shop near where you live and ask for the dried stuff.

The US and other army train their soldiers (men and women) to survive by eating worms and insects. It is a survival test.

So do Chinese eat them? Yes. So do others.

Answer 2

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 3

I just had this discussion with a Chinese individual last week, and according to her, that is only done is a certain Provence of China where "they'll eat anything" including monkey brains. But mainstream China does not do that. It's just like our weird backwoods hicks and their "delicacies"

Answer 4

What is the most popular pet name for a dog in China?

"Lucky"

BTW, haven't those chinese medicine shops that sell Tiger penises heard of Viagra yet? Stop killing endangered species.

Answer 5

We in America call it a delicacy, they just consider it normal everyday food.

Answer 6

it's more prevalent in Southern China (Guangdong province)...but even there it's very difficult to find "strange" foods...you really really really have to look hard. I was in Guangzhou once and tried to find a dog and cat restaurant, but after driving around for about an hour, I gave up....

Answer 7

Yes. Just because it may be weird in your (Western/American) culture doesn't mean it's *not* a delicacy.

Answer 8

in hong cong they sell birddroppings for eating they are very expensive they say they have no germs but i don't believe them they flavor them with honey and tea adaptive diets are common when fish and other more common foods are in short supply

Answer 9

There is an old saying, "If it grows in China, it's been eaten."

Answer 10

only about 0.0000001% of population does

most likely tendon, blood jelly, organs and stuff from pigs and cows