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Martin:
I have eaten the pigeon.  Maybe it was the same place as you Shaun...along the river.  I liked it myself, but was also aware of what i was eating.  I have also eaten bugs, wild mouse, dog, and turtle soup.  I can't wait for my next trip over...who knows what they will feed me next!

Lain:
Well I guess that I must be the exception here in this group.....I will eat anything, does not really matter to me. On my first trip to China recently I ate things that I have no idea what animal or part it came from and with only 1 or 2 exceptions...it was all excellent.

Had pigeon my second day...an third. Even had a huge bowl of frog soup....and NO it was not frog logs...these were whole frogs, skinned and gutted but whole from tip to toe...about 3 inches long and really hard to hold in chopsticks while eating. Not much meat, but good none the less.

The irony is that I got sick from eating a cooked crab which is "normal" by comparison to some of the things I ate....and let me tell ya, they call it "travelers diarrhea"....but it really should come with a better name, almost went to the hospital, thank god I had medication or I would have. On my return to live there I am having my doctor write me a prescription for 24 of the pills...not the 2 like I got last time. My thoughts are that after 6 months of living there my gut should build up the proper enzymes to keep me from getting sick... I hope  :-\ 

shaun:
Tonight I was talking to Peggy.  She was all the buzz about a new food she wanted me to try because she liked it very much.  She tell me that she thinks I will like it as much as she does.  So of course I bite and ask her what it is.  She sends it to me in Chinese; 驴肉火锅.  I translate and get a horrible look on my face and she starts laughing.  I quickly find a picture of a donkey and yes smiles and says yes.

Now, I had just finished supper.  Suddenly things start backing up and I get real light headed.  No really I was laughing and making faces about the thought.

My question to you guy's is this, have you tried 驴肉火锅?   What did you think of the experience.

I told her I would try ir once but I am not sure I have the nads to do it at this point.

Vince G:
I would imagine it's like horse meat? Though I haven't had it that I know of ? It won't kill you.

Arnold:
Shaun , now this can't be too bad .. really . We in Germany eat Horse Meat ( In Cold Cuts ) all the time . If you ever go/been to a German Deli and tasted some of their Sandwhich Meat's ( not here in the Sates ) are mostly made out of Horse Meat and so much better then the Cold Cuts you get here  .. any day .
As I see it , it's for HOT POT and you get to cook it to your likking . haha

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