Snake bite chicken

Snake bite chicken is a controversial dish served in Guangdong and Chongqing China, though its exact origin is unknown. The dish consist of a venomous snake being forced to bite a chicken. After the chicken is envenomated and dies, it is then served.

Snake bite chicken
Traditional Chinese蛇咬雞
Simplified Chinese蛇咬鸡

Description

The foshan dish cooking method is made by forcing a venomous snake to bite a chicken. The chicken is bitten and poisoned through the head.[1] It may take more than 10 minutes for the chicken to die. A strong chicken may require several bites.[1] After the chicken dies, it can be served in a pan for 98 Chinese yuan. If it is served with both the chicken and the snake, it costs 118 yuan.[1]

Controversy

A controversial video was made from a Guangdong restaurant.[1] It was then broadcast and generated a large number of anti-Cantonese comments.[2] When a reporter asked a notable professor from Sun Yat-sen University about the health benefit of the dish, he claimed that it was only his first time of hearing about the dish.[1] Health authorities in Guangdong have already told restaurants to stop serving the dish. Chongqing have also joined in.[3]

gollark: Relying on specific filesystem ordering seems kind of a silly thing to do generally.
gollark: That happened to me too. I wonder what Discord *did*.
gollark: Well, not sci-fi level, but definitely nanotechnology and pretty advanced.
gollark: Lots of modern and not-that-modern technology is very impressive if you consider how complex it is. Like how CPUs are basically insanely advanced nanotechnology which they manufacture at the scale of, well, not individual atoms, but smallish groups of atoms, mass-produced and sold very cheaply.
gollark: So low-level architecture then.

See also

References
  1. 163.com. "163.com." 网友曝毒蛇咬鸡成广州餐馆招牌菜. Retrieved on 2009-06-07.
  2. Sina.com. "Sina.com." 最血腥菜肴视频“毒蛇咬鸡”. Retrieved on 2009-06-07.
  3. Shanghaidaily.com. "Shanghaidaily.com." Snakebite dish banned. Retrieved on 2009-06-17.
This article is issued from Wikipedia. The text is licensed under Creative Commons - Attribution - Sharealike. Additional terms may apply for the media files.