5 East Asian Foods That Are Extreme Sadistic

East Asia is famous for its, say, eccentric cuisine - just go to a fair in China to have the opportunity to eat, for example, cockroach skewers, scorpions and other beings that Westerners are used to looking at with disgust. Well, customs are customs. But that region of the planet also seems to be a bit sadistic when preparing some dishes, doing everything possible to see the animals suffering.

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1) Alcoholic Crustacean

Putting live lobsters in boiling water is relatively common here, but back in China, chefs decided to add to the suffering of other famous crustaceans: shrimp. The dish in question is called "drunken shrimp" (literally "drunken shrimps") and there are several variants - sometimes the pets are submerged in liquor and eaten alive, while others prefer to make them swim in wine and then cook them. .

There's even an explanation for this: alcohol would help kill any bacteria or parasites that are in the crustaceans, but… Wasn't there a less sadistic way to do this?

2) One, two, three ...

You're unlikely to feel like eating rat pups at first - but, going on, this is another very common spice in China (more specifically, Canton Province). The dish is called "three squeaks" and alludes to the amount of howling that poor newborns emit until they are actually dead.

The recipe is simple: get some newborn mice, stick them with wooden sticks (first scream), drown them in a spicy sauce of your choice (second scream) and take a good bite by breaking the poor rodent in two ( third scream). Yeah.

3) Is it hot in here or is it just me?

Turtle Soup. An ancient Chinese cookbook summarizes this dish in a very simple way: place three live turtles in a pan of ice water. Boil slowly. And that's it. It turns out that, contrary to popular belief, boiling aquatic animals “slowly” by inserting them into cold water before is not enough to numb them - they suffer from the same temperature rise.

As if such cruelty were no longer controversial enough, such a dish is widely criticized by Western countries for using endangered specimens. And in the end, how difficult is it to at least faint the poor turtles in a more humane way before they despair in a pot of boiling water?

4) “Help me, I'm dying”

Common in Japan, Ikizukuri is not exactly a recipe, but a method of sashimi preparation that can be applied to various aquatic animals - the most famous being salmon, but octopuses and lobsters are also victims. The term literally means "prepared alive, " and that is exactly what happens.

The client chooses the animal to be tortured, the chef makes some special cuts (which, while removing the “dirt” from the inside of his body, keeps the fish alive) and the dish is served with the animal still breathing through the gills - and, probably wondering why life is so hard. Ew!

5) They crossed the line

Although (fortunately) this practice is no longer so popular in China, we could not leave it out of China. "Huo Jiao Lu" (or "Fresh Living Donkey") is another simple dish: grab a donkey, tie its legs, tie it upside down, and cut off parts of its meat to serve your customers there on time, while the poor beast agonizes with its snail being slowly opened.