Well, hope you will not flounder me for smurfing, (or whatever digging up old threads is called), but I am thinking about trying dog meat just once. It ranks with me like eating frog or snake or another animal raised for food, not like eating a friend, BTW. (Let’s not discuss ethics, shall we say that a dog raised for eating differ a great deal from dogs raised for petting?)
Do anybody of you know where to try this?
Preferably in Taoyuan county?
Also, anyone of you ever had it? in what case, how was it?
Darkish meat, a bit like game. Very lean, quite tough and stringy, although I think that’s just because they don’t cook it the right way. Flavour is difficult to describe because it comes in a very heavily spiced gravy or soup.
It’s not really worth going out of your way for, although I think if cooked properly, it could be quite good.
Unless you can find it in some out of the way place in the South, you’d be better off going to Vietnam or South Korea. I haven’t seen it since that place closed on the corner of Keelung and Chunghsiao roads (where the MRT stop is now) in about 1987.
Try turtle if you want to eat something that only tastes like itself (ie, not like chicken).
Mr. He, they’re just funning. Dog meat doesn’t taste like chicken at all. It’s dark and a bit tough. The flavor isn’t too strong, but it’s difficult to tell what exactly it tastes like because every time I’ve eaten it, it was in a very spicy soup. It’s very easy to find dog soup restaurants in South Korea, and difficult to do so here in Taiwan. In Korea, it’s called “boshintang,” which means “protect the body soup.”
[quote=“Mr He”]
Will have to do it in South Korea, then… how about around army bases?[/quote]
They’ve got dog soup restaurants all over South Korea. However, the sign will not say “dog soup,” it will say “boshintang,” in the Korean alphabet. Get a Korean man to help you find one. (Korean women are often embarrassed by the idea, and so to save face will tell you that they have never seen a dog meat restaurant; they’re lying.) Dog meat is supposed to increase a man’s ‘stamina,’ another reason the women may not be too willing to admitting they know where the restaurants are.
To change the subject a bit, what about dog in Taiwan. I know in some rural areas of Central and South America dog is still eaten. In the mid 1980s I found ONE small, out of the way place that said they served it, and that was after months of asking around.
Anyone seen/heard of it in Taiwan lately?
[quote=“Chris”][quote=“TainanCowboy”]kjmillig -
Look for signs advertising “fragrant meat” (in Chinese). Not too hard to find.[/quote]
I’ve never seen it in all my years in Taipei, but I found it wasn’t too hard to find in Beijing (in 2000).[/quote]
Nor me, although there was supposedly a place under a bridge leading from Yong He to Xindian that specialised in it. Urban myth like the three squeals rat?
I bet is is harder to get in Beijing now, but in Shenzhen dog hot pot places are absolutely everywhere. Saw the ghastly sight of half a a dog hung on a hook with its head intact and its sad balls dangling free last time I was there.
