Rat, dog meat of Vietnam enter list of most extreme foods
Thursday, July 11, 2013, 12:43 GMT+7
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| Slaughtered dogs are prepared for sale in Duong Noi, a small village in Vietnam. Dog meat is a common dish in many Eastern Asian nations. |
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| In Canh Nau, Vietnam, rats were once eaten as a last resort in cases of extreme hunger, but they're now eaten as part of a special dish prepared at the end of each lunar calendar. |
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| A woman drops a skinned frog into a blender in Peru. Some Peruvians believe that frog juice or "extracto de rana" can be a powerful aphrodisiac. |
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| A butcher in Bolivia slices into a boiled sheep's head. Sheep's head soup is a popular dish in Bolivia. |
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| A worker cuts up a roasted cat in the back room of a restaurant in the Ivory Coast. Cat meat is a traditional food in much of Africa and Asia. |
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| Turtle meat is sold at a market in a Nicaraguan port town. The going rate in Nicaragua? About $1.10 per pound. |
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| A restaurant in Yogyakarta, Indonesia features a burger made of cobra meat. About 1,000 cobras are caught in Yogyakarta, Central Java and East Java provinces each week and are sold for their meat for around to $1.15 each. |
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| A woman in Al Jazeera, Sudan prepares a dish with camel liver. Between 1996 and 2002, Sudan was estimated to have produced between 72,000 and 81,000 tons of camel meat each year. |
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| A woman prepares a guinea pig for cooking in Langui, Peru. Guinea pigs are a delicacy in many parts of South America. |
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| nake meat is seen as part of a soup dish in China, where snake meat is a traditional part of many regional cuisines and is believed to be good for the health. |
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| In Taiwan, cobra eggs and embryos (pictured here at a snake farm in Southern Taiwan) are eaten for good health. |
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| A Chinese woman eats from an ox and dog penis dish at a penis restaurant in Beijing that serves over 30 types of animal penises in traditional hotpot style. In China, many animal penises are thought to have medicinal properties. |
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| Lemurs are sold to restaurants in Madagascar as "luxury bush meat." Many endangered species of lemurs unique to Madagascar are being killed illegally by poachers, largely due to a lack of security on the island after a recent coup. |
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| Hard-boiled eggs cooked in boys' urine are a springtime snack in Dongyang, Zhejiang province in China. |
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| In Kampong Cham province, Cambodia, a vendor sells deep-friend spiders to customers at a bus station. $2.00 will get you 10 crunchy spiders seasoned with garlic. |
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| In Lahore, Pakistan, men line up for Siri Paya, a traditional breakfast dish made of goat heads and feet. |
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| A typical sauce made with particularly large ants called "Culonas" is seen here at a restaurant in Barichara, Colombia. |
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| A Saudi Arabian man crunches on the hands of an Uromastyx lizard, an animal whose blood is believed to treat diseases and strengthen the body. Also known as "dabb lizards", these small reptiles are often caught by hooks or sniffer dogs and are enjoyed as a delicacy in many parts of the Middle East. |
