The Chinese may not dine on cats or dogs in Europe or North America, but they do in China. Cat Meat Restaurant Closed
Banner-wielding animal rights protesters swarmed into a restaurant on Lianhua Road in Buji Subdistrict serving cat meat and forced it to shut down, Xinhua reported yesterday.Still, articles in Chinese take a negative tone.
The 100 or so demonstrators, including women and children, held up banners reading "cats and dogs are friends of human beings" as they entered the Fangji Cat Meatball 方记猫肉丸店 restaurant and demanded the owner free any live cats on the premises, Xinhua said.
...In many parts of China, especially the southern regions, people have the tradition of eating cat meat. Previous reports said that in Guangzhou alone the residents eat 10,000 cats every day during the winter.
I was led to this by Mad Minerva, who also mentions Hello Kitty sushi. I was disappointed the kind she links to didn't use the variety of kamaboko pictured below, which I once saw used on sushi in Taiwan:
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