On the Menu for the Olympics

[Snake Catcher Victoria]

http://www.news.com.au/heraldsun/story/0,21985,24100257-663,00.html
THIS IS A LOT OF ANIMALS

POLICE in Vietnam have seized more than two tonnes of live snakes and 770kg of tortoises about to be smuggled into China.
Following a tip-off, Customs officers and the environment police stopped a truck about 160km east of Hanoi.

A department official said: "The animals had been illegally imported from Laos and might be bound for Chinese restaurants."

Vietnamese authorities last year seized more than 7700 trafficked wild animals, including rare species.
Vietnam seize rare wild animals
July 29 2008 at 11:54AM Hanoi - Police in Vietnam seized more than 2 tons of live snakes and 770 kilograms of tortoises about to be smuggled into China, officials said on Tuesday.

Following a tip-off, customs police and the environment police department stopped a truck in Quang Ninh province, 160 kilometres east of Hanoi, and found the animals, said Nguyen Quoc Trung, a senior official with the department.

"The wild animals had been illegally imported from Laos and were on the way to China," Trung said. "They might be bound for Chinese restaurants."

The smuggled tortoises belong to six different species. All tortoises and snakes were classified as rare by the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species, and were transferred to the Soc Son Wild Animal Rescue Centre in Hanoi.
VietNamNet Bridge – Customs officers and the Environmental Police Agency on July 26 stopped a truck attempting to traffic wild animals – the largest amount discovered so far this year in Vietnam.

A truck carrying over 2,100 colubers totalling 2,024kg and 524 turtles of various species totalling 770kg was seized in the northern coastal province of Quang Ninh. It was on its way to China through the Mong Cai border gate on July 25.​

The truck was escorted to Hanoi the next day. The batch of wildlife is estimated at $70,000. The driver said he paid $15,000 for the reptiles.​

The snakes and turtles were transferred to the Wildlife Rescue Centre in Hanoi’s suburban district of Soc Son.​

Police are investigating the case.​

Thanh Van​

 

[callith]

yum yum

 

[dragon lady]

dont these idiots ever learn!
life sucking individuals that cant see past their own pockets

 

[Drazzy]

Snake pie goes good with Wasabi paste, wish i could afford but g/f cut holes in my pockets and spend it all on handbags.

 

[Snake Catcher Victoria]

In another article in the same paper they are promoting a resteraunt in China that serves weird dishes..
Turtle soup with a sheep penis in it, ect..Specially for the olympics

The soup, enriched with chicken and fish bones, has a turtle floating helplessly in the middle, its head and legs swirling around the shell.
It smells and tastes similar to chicken and sweet corn soup.
Into this boiling stock go the penises. A few minutes later the first is hanging from my quivering chopsticks. Ox penis, says the waitress, is full of protein, good for the skin and aids longevity. And the deeper its colour, the more effective its properties.
Down the hatch it goes. The first thing you notice is the blandness. It's fatty, slightly chewy and awkward to swallow. The next piece is dipped in chilli sauce and there is an immediate improvement, but it still fails to blanket the growing queasiness in the pit of your stomach.
Next: Sheep's penis. A flabby little thing taken from a breed of Inner Mongolian sheep known for strength and speed. Clearly this one was not quick enough. There's no difference to the ox. Bland, soft rubber.
Things improve, flavour-wise, when the deer arrives. But the best is clearly the donkey penis. Slivered from the top half, it looks like a streak of bacon and carries the faint taste of pork.
By Chinese standards, it's an expensive meal, well over $A100 and easily beaten in flavour and texture by the scrambled egg with lily flowers and the mandatory accompaniment for an Australian in Beijing, fried rice.
Of course, we could have opted for the Canadian seal penis but at more than $500 a dish we begged off. And the “Head Crowned with a Jade Bracelet" sounded fascinating, but our appetite for horse penis from western China was by now diminished.
The waitress cast a withering look of contempt at us when she saw the amount of leftover food on our table. She was in an even worse frame of mind when we knocked back the chance for takeaway.
Those who keep coming back to this restaurant swear that the food on offer enhances their yang, or virility, and provides clear skin and an improvement in kidney function.
Unfortunately, the only thing we noticed was something far more startling. For the first time we could remember after eating Chinese food, we weren't hungry a few hours later.

 

[mebebrian]

i think i'd rather eat my own left foot!

 

[snakelvr]

Sick. Very sick. :?

 

[RedEyeGirl]

these ppl never learn do they

 

[Kirby]

in their culture, its no different to us illegally importing cows.

 

[Vincent21]

I would never eat a snake nor a tortoise.

 

[Homebrand91]

they eat anything

 

[RB25JET]

i would try snake.... i like wierd food.. although i do agree its wrong but its normal for them....