i've heard of a tiger in your tank...but..this....

[Guest guest]

so...

the bad news

so brilliant folks allowed them to put a restaurant next a tiger reserve, and

they serve tiger

the good news..its not tiger

the bad news...donkey..in urine??!!!!!

is that like those donkeys painted like zebras in tijuana?

 

i'm still tryin to wrap my mind around this one...

and to think, i was just sitting in the sun reading....my how the world

shifts....

 

 

http://sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/n/a/2005/09/08/international/i065013D49\

..DTL

 

Chinese Eatery Sold Donkey in Tiger Urine

 

Thursday, September 8, 2005

 

 

 

(09-08) 15:58 PDT SHANGHAI, China (AP) --

 

 

A restaurant in northeastern China that advertised illegal tiger meat dishes was

found instead to be selling donkey flesh — marinated in tiger urine, a

newspaper reported Thursday.

 

 

The Hufulou restaurant, located beside the Heidaohezi tiger reserve near the

city of Hailin, had advertised stir-fried tiger meat with chilies for $98as well

as liquor flavored with tiger bone for $74 a bottle, the China Daily reported.

 

 

Raw meat was priced at $864 per kilogram.

 

 

The sale of tiger parts is illegal in China and officers shut down the

restaurant, only to be told by owner, Ma Shikun, that the meat was actually that

of donkeys, flavored with tiger urine to give the dish a " special " tang, the

newspaper said.

 

 

The report didn't say how the urine was obtained.

 

 

Authorities confiscated the restaurant's profits and fined Ma $296 it said. It

wasn't clear what Ma was fined for. Selling donkey meat is not illegal in China

and it is widely consumed in the northeast.

 

 

Ma had initially claimed that the meat came from dead tigers sold to him by the

management of the Heidaohezi reserve, but later changed his story, the report

said.

 

 

While Heidaohezi's director denied that claim, the reserve, with about 150

tigers, has been involved in similar controversies in the past.

 

 

Until China outlawed the trade in 1993, the reserve received most of its revenue

from the sale of tiger skins, bones and other body parts, which are believed by

Chinese to imbue vigor and sexual prowess.

 

 

Emotional appeals about working families trying to get by on $4.25 an hour [the

minimum wage in 1996] are hard to resist. Fortunately, such families do not

exist.

Tom Delay 4/23/96