Re: OT: Junk/Dim S(ui)m
| From: | H. S. Teoh <hsteoh@...> |
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| Date: | Saturday, September 13, 2003, 17:03 |
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On Sat, Sep 13, 2003 at 11:52:27AM -0400, Roger Mills wrote:
[snip]
> > I'm not sure what 'dim-sum' is, but here in Melbourne there is a joke that
> > dim-sims contain cat meat, or were originally made of cat meat, or some
> > derivative thereof. Apparently the source was a fish-n-chips shop* in St
> > Kilda (a suburb of Melbourne) which did it, and were subsequently shut
> > down.
> >
> Urban Legend Alert!? According to my sister, some years back the Board of
> Health raided a well-known Chin. restaurant in Miami/Ft.Lauderdale/Palm
> Beach or wherever, and found a stash of cats in the freezer. Whatever the
> truth of the matter, she has become very picky about what she orders in such
> places.
> Personally, I passed on the chance to sup on puppydog, in up-country
> Indonesia.
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Funny how non-Chinese people seem to make a big deal out of eating cats
and dogs, etc.. I've been eating in (authentic!) Chinese restaraunts out
here in Torontonian chinatown for over 10 years now, and I've yet to
encounter anything stranger than the usual chicken/beef/pork/lamb meats
and miscellaneous parts thereof.
I've had fried snail once, and this was at a friend's home, not in some
eatery of questionable reputation.
T
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like it there speaks ill of you. -- Speek, K5
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