Chinese Eatery Sold Donkey in Tiger Urine
Thu Sep 8, 6:58 PM


SHANGHAI, China - 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 $98 as 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.

They made special Tang from tiger pee, what?

Thunderbird said:

Tang does taste kinda funny.
[Edited 9/8/05 22:06pm]

BOOMshockaLockaBOOM said:

That's why they ship it to space, 'cause nobody wants it here!

For real though....that's kinda nasty, imo.

AnckSuNamun said:

Oh, enough with the real ... alter-egos are cool!!!

Thunderbird said:

The last time I had Tang, I think I was about 10.....maybe it's changed since then.

Thunderbird said:

I ran out of replies This has happened only three times since I've been here.....I'm well prepared for it though.

prepared
[Edited 9/8/05 22:11pm]

AnckSuNamun said:

Oh, you're one of those! I get it.

...and he only got fined $296

This reminds me of the time Tony M. and I tried selling Prince jerky by drying out the shredded remains of a hobo we found (Who was PROBABLY Tommy Barbarella) after marinating it in a jar of Prince urine Tony'd been keeping around since '92.

It kind of backfired when people started to realize Prince wasn't dead. Fuckin' Musicology tour.
[Edited 9/9/05 4:10am]

HobbesLeCute said:

JasmineFire said:

double

HobbesLeCute said:

Wasn't that the general premise for the movie "Hotel Hell"?