Penis Hotpot!
 

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/programme...nt/5371500.stm

Oh great, there goes another blow to China's specialty food reputation. Or maybe it just makes it even more notorious. However its just one restaurant... though some others probably offer this.... um... specialty, this being the only that specializes in it. But damn.

Anyone find similar restaurants serving messed up stuff like this elsewhere in the world? I heard there's apparantly a niche market for goat testicles in Europe somewhere....

Oh, and I should have probably add that you shouldn't read the article before a meal...

Well this is coming from a people who think tiger penis is an aphrodesiac, so I'm not really surprised.

Moved to the Kitchen based on the results of a coin flip.

Heh, I remember someone actually posting a link to a similar story a long while back, and the guy that did the reporting that time got into a bit more detail on how the various pieces tasted (he sampled a number).

I'm sure someone was having fun when they wrote the caption for the picture, though.

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That's actually some old belief - whatever parts you eat is supposed to replenish your own body. Like, if you eat lungs of animals, that's supposed to help 'replenish', or 'heal' (that's as far as I can go in terms of translation) your own.

I mean, I won't be surprised at finding the occasional odd order option of animal testies in a soup or something in some countryside restaurants (or a fancy restaurant in the city).... I'm just surprised they have a place that serves NOTHING but penises and testies. Wtf?

With this place you can sing the spam song and replace "spam" with "penis" and it'd make sense.

Poor tigers, though.

Poor Tigers? Poor butchers.

Hey, otherwise they'd just be throwing the penises out in the garbage. You know it's not good to waste perfectly good meat.

Kaleb.G is right. I would be very surprised if they just hunted down an animal JUST for the genitals.

As for the Chinese and their "exotic" tastes, to each their own. As long as they are not serving up "human horn", let them do whatever they want. Eating dog, donkey, whatever, is no different than eating any other type of animal.

Yeah I agree. Its just not something that we usually are accustomed to eating. Just because people in North America may think its a bad thing, it may not be somewhere else.