YOU ATE KITTY?!?!?!?!?!
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Well. On the realistic side, most of the country is extremely impoverished, so the concept of not only keeping a pet "fun" but to spend money on feeding it as well is really out of the question - My students didn't really have "pets" - If there were cats around the house, it was explicitly to catch mice.
While I can't ever imagine eating cat, the fact of the matter is, it's not like there are spay and neuter laws there (or the $$ to widely spay and neuter), so you see wild cats and dogs EVERYwhere, especially dogs.
There was a particular section of the local farmer's market that I had to avoid because it was where they kept the puppies in cages. :(:(
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Originally Posted by Ferox13
But seriously, I have no problem with people eating meat but what I've seen from China, they really threat their livestock badly.
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'Tis true - :( - While I was there I seriously considered becoming vegetarian because of this - While PETA may cry about animal abuse here, it's really nothing compared to other countries, and China is no exception... To be honest, I think that it's a different mindset - Not that I'm excusing them, but culturally, they literally do not thing that animals have feelings. Animal is food, just as cabbage is food - Cutting up cabbage isn't considered "abuse," so they don't necessarily consider mistreatment of animals to be abuse either.
I don't condone it, but it's hard to argue with a culture that honestly does not think that animals have feelings. They're FOOD, not PEOPLE. Also, not hard to argue with a culture where a majority of its people are poor and starving. China is truly a 3rd World country still - People don't necessarily realize that because the cities (especially Shanghai) are so rich and modern - The countryside is just that - Country, farmers, herders, etc.
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Originally Posted by Ferox13
You were probably lucky..
My Gf no longer eats meat since she went there (personally I think its more my amazing Veggie cooking :-)...
She was with Chinese people and they might have have being to trying to impress her with 'real cruisine'. I do feel some bits of chicken should be left uneaten...
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I guess it depends on where she stayed and their "local specialty" - I remember "fish balls" being quite popular and they were absolutely disgusting. Luckily, for the most part, where I stayed had a lot of varieties in terms of the meats and veggies, so any meat or veggie dish we wanted, they'd prepare for us (cooked fish was delicious, though I didn't like the fish soup - Never got the hang of picking bones out of my teeth... Another specialty was this egg and tomato soup which was fantastic... Mushroom and pork soup which was fantastic... Man I'm really blanking now - Good eggplant dishes if I recall correctly...)
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Originally Posted by ferretchucker
Best thing I ate out there (hence it's in the album a lot) were noodles from the street cooks. I'd give them a quick "Ni Hau", point to what I wanted and 50p later I've got a massive portion of great tasting noodles.
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YES HANDS DOWN - LOVED the noodle soups they served on the street! Also loved the skewers (didn't have the cat and dog - that I knew of - but I loved the chicken, pork, lam, and squid). Also loved the little dumpling places... Best dumplings I've ever had. Actually, it ruined dumplings and noodle soups for me permanently - Their Ramen Noodles that I would just head up in my wok were better than some of the soups I get in these here parts...