It was a Chinese “aunt” (not actually a blood relative) who said “aiyaa, dog very tough and greasy, but “heaty” (i.e warms you up) in winter”.
Westerners would notice dog or cat meat instantly for this reason (unless they were used to eating poor quality meat). Carnivores aren’t as tasty.
I did laugh though at a Guardian travel report where the Chinese managed to get one of the Grauniads yogurt weaving reporters (doign the low cost backpacking thing) to wolf down (sorry) a entire bowl of spicy dog meat and noodles before realising that it was
in the richer Chinese communities such as Singapore, Malaysia and South China they now are more likely to keep dogs as pets, either small yappy ones (which are not worth eating) or “western” type breeds.
Some middle aged Chinese women actually formed one of the first animal rights groups in Shanghai, and busted all the windows of the dog meat restaurant.
These are the sort of women what carry their dogs like in the West, except you are talking about a 5 foot chinese woman carrying a full size border collie under her arm fairly effortlessly. The cops left them to smash the windows :laugh_at:
