Do you know in what countries do they eat fried rats besides China???

Question

I found this add of the Travel Channel and it shows the host buying what it seems to be a deep fried rat on a stick from a food stand on a strret. The guy selling the rats seems Indian but i'm not sure. Does anyone knows where do they eat this?? thank you

Answer 1

lol looks yummy

Answer 2

OMG Fried rats!! isn't their any other food to eat besides rats!!

Answer 3

SOME AREAS IN MEXICO DO, THEY ALSO MAKE STEW OUT OF RATS...

Answer 4

I don't know!

Answer 5

A very popular dish that is served all over Peru and a special at weddings is a deep fried guinea pig, even in India the will eat the field rats.

I had deep fried frog skin with a rotten anchovie dip in Thailand and Fish Head Curry when I worked in Singapore.

Answer 6

who cares..?

it is not your culture,,!

people eat rabbits,, squirrels, and many other small animals.

SO WHAT,,...

you trying to be a shock jock..?

bringing such nonsense here is just insulting..

Answer 7

I saw the show, it was in Lo. USA/ in a stew also Cajun style

Answer 8

IN Thailand, rat meat is considered a delicacy and it can be more expensive than regular meat (!). The rats are that are sold are not the ones you see running around in the city gutters and sewers etc. They are caught from the countryside and sold in eth city markets.

Answer 9

mostly in Southeastern Asian countries

Countries like Vietnam, Laos, Cambodia, Thailand, etc.

Answer 10

This is the first i've heard of people eating rats but it's no big deal. I mean if millions of people eat pigs guts which are called sausages then I say lets eat them rats.

Answer 11

Yes they eat rats in India, Latin America but it is the Chinese (who else) who have elevated it into a culinary art. Check this out.... and see if you don't drool....

GUANGZHOU, China: The Cantonese people of south China are legendary for eating anything that moves and some things that are still moving. The food market features cats, raccoons, owls, doves and snakes along with bear and tiger's paw, dried deer p***s and decomposed monkey skeletons.

Now, this rich culinary tradition has inspired China's first restaurant dedicated to serving rat.

Rat with Chestnut and Duck.

Lemon Deep Fried Rat.

Satayed Rat Slices with Vermicelli.

In fact, the menu lists 30 different rat dishes, even including Liquored Rat Flambe, along with more mundane dishes such as Hot Pepper Silkworm, Raccoon With Winter Melon and Sliced Snake and Celery. Customers have been scampering in at all hours to the euphemistically named Jialu (Superior to Deer) Restaurant.

Mr. Zhang's restaurant is as trendy as they come in China. The 15-table, two-story eatery is a mixture of blond wood furniture, stucco walls and wooden lattice laced with plastic vines. The crowd includes young couples who stroll in hand-in-hand and nestle in a quiet corner for a romantic rat dinner. Other groups include engineers, office clerks, salesmen and factory workers.

The restaurant special is Braised Rat. Garnished with sprigs of cilantro, the morsels of rat meat are swaddled in crispy rat skin. The first nibble reveals a rubbery texture. But the skin coats one's teeth with a stubborn slime. The result is a bit like old chewing gum covered with Crisco.

Other dishes are better: German Black Pepper Rat Knuckle (rat shoulders, actually; the knuckles are too small) tastes like a musty combination of chicken and pork. The rat soup, with delicate threads of rat meat mixed with thinly sliced potatoes and onions, is surprisingly sweet. Far and away most appealing to the Western palate is Rat Kebab. The skewers of charcoaled rat fillet are enlivened with slices of onion, mushroom and green pepper and served smothered in barbecue sauce on sizzling iron plates that are shaped like cows.

Also on the menu: a Nest of Snake and Rat, Vietnamese Style Rat Hot Pot, a Pair of Rats Wrapped in Lotus Leaves, Salted Rat with Southern Baby Peppers, Salted Cunning Rats, Fresh Lotus Seed Rat Stew, Seven-Color Rat Threads, Dark Green Unicorn Rat -- and, of course, Classic Steamed Rat. Generally, the presentation is quite elegant, with some dishes served with lemon slices or scallions forming a border and others with carrots carved into flower shapes.

Experienced rat eaters, however, warn that this is no meat to pig out on. If you eat too much rat, you get a nosebleed. Several customers take off their shirts halfway through the meal because eating rat, like dog, seems to raise the body temperature for some reason. That's why rat is considered a winter food. In the summer, the restaurant does most of its business during the late-night and early-morning hours, after the weather cools down.

Note: Rats are the health food for the 1990s - rich in 17 amino acids, vitamin E and calcium. Eat them to prevent hair loss, revive the male libido, cure premature senility, relieve tension and reduce phlegm. A rat's liver, gallbladder, fat, brain, head, eye, saliva, bone, skin are useful for medical treatment.

Rat eradication campaigns have been a staple of Chinese life since Mao declared war on the four pests -- rats, flies, mosquitoes and bed bugs in the 1950s.

In 1984, the last Year of the Rat, the government launched an all-out crusade in which an estimated 526 million rats were killed. In 1985, the government tried to maintain the momentum by promoting rat meat as good food, explaining that "rats are better looking than sea slugs and cleaner than chickens and pigs."

Answer 12

he was on the streets of Manhattan, I don't know what type rodent it is though...

saw an episode where he was in Ecuador..they have tanks that you select  Guinea pig for the BBQ spit, much like picking a lobster, Guinea pig is like steak to them.