In this interesting clip, a Japanese reporter visits a North Korea restaurant in China that specializes in high quality dog meat:
The restaurant specializes in dog meat dishes, and the reporter orders their most famous item: Dog Meat Galpi in a sauce with vegetables. It’s tender and not too bad.
The shot of the menu reveals the prices for dishes to be around 25 to 35 yuan (about 3 to 5 US Dollars), which isn’t so bad… for North Korean dog meat.
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Sun Tzu has spent about 7 years in Asia traveling through Japan, Hong Kong, China, and Korea. A true fan of everything that is weird and strange, he decides in the end what is displayed and published on this site. Sun has previous experience writing for numerous print mags such as XLR8R, URB, and Movement Magazine.
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skanger
Yes – [burp]
Grace
sick motherfreaker!
anon
unless you are a vegan, you are a hypocrite to say that it is not ok to eat dogs, but it is perfectly fine to eat cow, sheep, chickens, pigs, ect.
micheal
nothing wrong with eating dogs, meat is not the best quality and the perception of virality is pschological. How cares, Its not like dogs are endangered species like tigers. so westereners have pet dogs and complain. I have 2 dogs and 7 cats, I think eating cats and dogs is OK. How many dogs and cat are culled every year because someone dont want them as a pet, think of all that meat and fur gone to waste, I’m serious.
JM
Nice English Jackass.
If you don’t understand why it is morally wrong to eat an animal that has been humanized for over 2000 years, you are either morally bankrupt or basically retarded. Which is it?
Or, perhaps, you are trying to justify the acts of an inferior culture and their sick twisted inferior acts. Save your PC B.S.
Blueslady
Dogs are of the lower species. They eat their own feces. They are by far, one of the most insipid animals on the planet. What is wrong with cutting their population down by eating them? One less bark in the world is a good bark. But… dogs are simply gross and I would not want to put any of that in me.
Faith
Dogs and cats are animals, I think you may be the retarded one. You know it was the mid 80s before dog meat was outlawed in Germany and they still do it? Oh, and Canada? There are no laws prohibiting it so long as the dog or cat meat is inspected.
There are places where you couldn't get a burger to save your life because cows are considered sacred, and I'm sure people like you see that as backward, sick and inferior, too just because it's not what you're used to?
Grow up and live in the world a little bit, stop being such a child.
Jaeaux
I think you mean: 'Nice English, Jackass.'
gonogo
I agree with eating the flesh of those would be ok if they were slaughtered fast with a brain penetrating pin or the such. However they bring dogs the most torturous death as possible just to heighten the flavor. I’m talking about skinning alive (check out videos), burning off their fur while alive with gas torches, hitting with sticks, hanging them to choke… That’s totally unacceptable for me. Not to mention the life they lived until the point to be tortured and to have to watch the other dogs to be tortured to death.
Poop
Okay…so do you think..its okay..to eat..YOU when you're dying and going to freakin waste?! And what about the kids being put up for adoption you stupid moron. think before you start talking..
Indra
Hi JM
Think your comment is incorrect. Most but not all cultures on the planet have humanized dogs, for the need for protection and or pets etc, like western cultures.
joe
ya but did ya see how they slagher them its horible look it up on youtube. it would be all right if it was done right. i tellin ya, LOOK IT UP!!
Tricia
No. It is not okay to eat dog meat or any other meat for that matter. Eating meat is bad for your health, bad for the planet and obviously bad for the millions of animals that suffer in squalid living conditions only to meet a painful death. Humans are meant to eat primarily a plant-based diet. It’s easy, it’s healthy, it’s compassionate.
Ploceus
All you westerners should stop eating beef from cows, pork, chicken and turkey. Only then you come back to us and demand stop eating dog meat. Is this a deal?
JM1
After you have spent thousands of years domesticating chickens, turkeys, cows, and pigs to be companion animals; after you have taught a pig to be an assistance animal for the handicapped; after you have taught your "police chickens" and guard cows; then yes we will stop eating them you mental, and likely, physical midget. Your views are insult to your own culture and people, forget about the west.
a good American
you came in this country, you've been accepted by this country and treated as a human being, you obey to the rules of this country. Is this a deal?
Jessica
Speak for yourself. You weren't the first ones on 'this country'.
Stop thinking with such biased, outdated views.
I CARE!
Its not the fact you eat them STUPID!!! Its the way you INHUMANELY end their lives, you are the reason I hate being a part of the human race.
I DON'T CARE
then do *yourself* a favour, terminate yourself.
2lolo
Because,,,,,, Not LIKE YOU!!!!!!!! WE DON'T EAT ASS-Os……………
Chetan
its rubbish to eat dog..I condom it.
There r so many good things to eat in this world.
Poop
yes, i agree!
ben
the only reason people in western culture look down upon eating dogs is becuase of the symbology a dog carries to westerners. we hold high esteem to our dogs being like our best friends, who share qualities similar to and we seek out the more human qualities. alot of us treat them with respect and love, the idea of eating a dog or even killing a dog disgust people becuase the context of the dog in our culture. so to look down upon those who use the dog as a food source is highly ethnocentric but understandable. i personally think that there are moral ways in wich an animal should be killed if it is to be eaten, but as to what animals humans eat, i dont think another cultural group can pressure another as to what their diet is.
JM1
blah, blah, blah, same tired grade C answer. Oh, but nowadays this is an A- answer for you Gen Who Cares. Nothing ethnocentric about animal abuse. Korean dogs are neither dumber nor less likely to bond with humans than western dogs. This may be the dumbest group of bigots I have ever seen online.
Jessica
Do you even think of what you say? How insulting, and you're the one complaining about the new generation? Please, who do you think raised them?
Eddle
The only reason why this is so taboo is because humans have sympathized and made dog "man's best friend". It's the same situation with horses.
In places with Muslim traditions, people scoff at the notion of eating pig because it's against their beliefs or ways. We scoff at the notion of consuming dog meat because of out culture and ways.
criticalmass
No need to devolve into racial bashing. It is not just about western and eastern cultures because other eastern cultures do not eat dog. I think it is more about cultural and religious practices, culinary history and social perceptions in general that determines an acceptable diet.
Dogs, pigs, monkeys, and cows are all animals that are and are NOT eaten for various reasons. It is a circular argument to reason why it is right or wrong to eat a particular animal; unless, there is legislation enacted to protect a species.
It is simply my personal opinion that house pets and primates should not be eaten. I cannot substantiate my opinion other than it was the way I was brought up. I suppose if I was brought up in a culture that prohibited pork from my diet, I would not eat pork . . . etc.
Jimbo
Here's my opinion. We have all this policitically correct BS we have to deal with these days, all I have to say is open your eyes and use your head. They like to say that all cultures and religions are equal, well guess what, they are not all equal, some are infact quite terrible. Look at the KKK, are you going to say they the same as something a little less violent. Or what about Islam? Same thing, their Koran mandates killing the non-believers, yet the PC police tend to ignore that fact. Same thing with treatment of animals in many Asian countires. That is simply horrendous and inhumane. Boiling cats alive and eating dogs, eating everything under the sun live. Show some compassion, jeeze.
So, to me, not all cultures/religions are equal. And no, I'm not Christian or anything, religion is just a crutch in my opinion. But I don't let my food suffer either. I hunt occasionaly, and when I shoot something, I make sure it dies quickly out of respect for the animal, something these cultures do not understand, which is just sad.
samuel welsh
save the dogs
planty
people who eat meat, but say that eating dogs is immoral are hypocrites (unless religious and cultural views are involved…maybe). some people kill chickens to eat and then criticize others for eating dogs. they should either accept and respect that other people eat different types of meat, or they should not eat meat at all
Vicky
What a stupid question.. For intelligent, articulate, compassionate, empathic human beings it would not even enter their radar to consume dogs or any other beautiful creatures. Not to feel for any of natures creatures = being disconnected from a human being, being human. It's not okay!!!