Dogs are both delicacy and man's best friend in Vietnam
At a packed Hanoi restaurant, one of Vietnam's growing ranks of proud
pooch owners tucks into a traditional delicacy to mark the end of the
lunar month -- a plate of juicy dog.
Canine meat has long been on the menu in Vietnam. But now a growing
love of the four-legged friends means that one man's pet can be
another's dog sausage -- quite literally as far as dog bandits are
concerned.
"We never kill our own dogs for their meat. Here I'm eating in a
restaurant so I don't care which dogs they killed or how," Pham Dang
Tien, 53, said as he chewed contentedly on a plate of boiled dog. AFP |