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'Tiger' dish was donkey
BEIJING: A restaurant in northeast China has been raided and closed for listing stir-fried tiger meat on its menu, a dish that turned out to be donkey dressed with tiger urine.
The Hufulou restaurant in Hailin city, in Heilongjiang province, is barely a kilometre from the Hengdaohezi Siberian Tiger Park, home to a species that is among the world's 10 most endangered. It was offering a dish of stir-fried tiger meat with chillies for 800 yuan ($98), and raw tiger meat at 7000 yuan a kilogram, the China Daily reported.
Diners could wash it down with a bottle of wine pickled with tiger bone.
When asked how the restaurant obtained the meat, a waiter reportedly said the owner had good connections within the tiger park and got the meat of dead tigers.
Police subsequently raided the restaurant and the owner confessed the so-called tiger meat was donkey meat, dressed with tiger urine to give it a "special" flavour.
The eatery was closed for inspection, the China Daily said. It was not clear how many customers had ordered the feast or where the restaurant obtained the tiger urine.
The Australian, 9 September 2005
[Courtesy of Tibby]
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