[Pekkerhead]

Just got back from a nice week in Ha Noi. Stayed at the Hotel Elegance 3 (standard room just US$55 per night - very nice) and a couple of days at Ha Long Bay on the Santa Maria (booked through Colombus Travel in Hanoi). It was great.

A word of warning, if you are a dog lover (actually, also cats and just about anything else small and furry and cute) avoid a trip to the Perfume Pagoda. The boat trip is very nice but when you disembark you have to walk past a whole plethora of local eateries - most of which have a dog, or two or three, strung up (dead and cooked already I should add) out front, in various phases of gastronomical dissection.

[MovingIn07]

Did u have to share?

[Alby]

Thank you appreciate the warning

[Skyhook]

And you all thought those BBQ meat skewers cooking on street side food stalls in Vietnam and provincial china, were beef lol.

Meat in some parts of Asia is on a need to know basis, which means I prefer not to know lol, but if it tastes good, eat it .

I am sure I have eaten a roasted black and white furry critter about the size of a small possum, that looks a bit like a raccoon in Guangdong city, too. Not sure what they are called, but they are very popular restaurant tucker in that part of China.


I am sure Hindu's look at us wasps ( white Anglo Saxons ) and think you barbarians, you eat cattle !

[PDLM]

I'm with skyhook on this, although I have to say that I find dog adobo a bit stringy for my taste so I don't go out of my way to find it.

[Rugbymad]

Panda meat man myself, that or gorilla meat if you can get hold of it. mmmm

[Skyhook]

Mmmm Panda, the other red meat .

And while we are on this rather humourous tangent, this funny photo sprang to mind. Ha ha ha

[Pekkerhead]

yeah, it wasn't just dogs, anything that had a bit of fur was hanging up in a strange petrified begging body position. It was interesting. I wasn't put off but I am sure HK's huge population of dog lovers would be, so I won't paste the photos :-)

[sera]

Originally Posted by Pekkerhead

yeah, it wasn't just dogs, anything that had a bit of fur was hanging up in a strange petrified begging body position. It was interesting. I wasn't put off but I am sure HK's huge population of dog lovers would be, so I won't paste the photos :-)

Been to Vietnam - Ho Chi Minh, Hanoi, and Halong Bay - on 3 separate occasions and enjoyed each trip; never realised that the meat hanging or in our bowls might've been of canine or feline origin!

You're having us on - coz it's April's Fools, right?!

Though I've tried many a tasty, mysterious dish, and not bothered or dared to ask too much about it / its source... sometimes would be better not knowing?

[Pekkerhead]

If I had posted this today then I would willingly accept this slant on my *ahem* honesty

I have a less offensive picture I could post if you are still not convinced.