And the three dishes are the only ones I am more familiar with in these dishes, and the way to eat is also the simplest, wash the newborn hairless pink mouse cubs and put them on the plate, next to a small dish of special sauce, when you pick up the mouse cubs with chopsticks, you will call a second sound when you dip the sauce, and when you put it in your mouth and bite it, you will call it a third sound. This dish is not only eaten in the south, but also in the northeast, and one of my classmates has seen it.

The cannon is to pass the donkey's four legs through the four round holes of the iron plate, and then let the customer choose the part on the spot, the chef then pours the donkey legs with boiling water, and then develops to the various positions of the donkey's body, first peel off the donkey skin to reveal the bright red meat, also poured with boiling water, and after cooking, cut the plate with a sharp knife, it is said that the meat quality is better than any donkey meat practice. The name of the jackal hurting the swan's heart is very literary, but the way to eat it is very disgusting, using a device similar to a small mace directly into the anus of the live goose, rotating left and right, and then pulling out, you can bring out the large and small intestines of the goose. It is then quickly cooked in boiling water and dipped in a spicy sauce, and it is said that diners can also enjoy the geese struggling on the ground while eating them, which the restaurant says is the crying of a swan that has been broken by a jackal.

Three sheep Kaitai is more inhumane, to choose the kind of ewes pregnant with two litters, when they are about to give birth to the traditional method of Xinjiang to do roasted whole sheep, after ripening to open the belly of the sheep, the two lambs inside are tender and delicious. And this dish also has a color head, the chef has to check the sex of the two lambs on the spot, if it is a male and a female, then it is called the dragon and phoenix three sheep Kaitai, it is said that you can eat such a dish will have good luck, promotion and wealth, diners must give the chef a thousand yuan red envelopes on the spot.

The name of the Marble Mountain is supposed to be to avoid trouble, but it is actually a raw monkey brain. I have seen people on the Internet before posting an introduction to this dish, which is to clamp the live monkey on a special table, only the head is exposed, and it is fixed in a container and cannot be moved. But it's not like in the post, asking the chef to chisel the monkey skull around the spot with a special sharp tool, it's all nonsense. The monkey's skull is as hard as a human, and it doesn't have that time at all, but the chef has already processed it in the back kitchen. In order to prevent the monkey from moving and scratching with his hands, the sawed skull should be wrapped with tape, and the monkey's hands and feet should be tied tightly. After serving the table, the chef ripped off the tape, removed the skull, cut off the meninges with a knife, exposed the brain tissue inside, and then slowly poured it with red oil fried with more than a dozen natural spices.

I was already a little sick to my stomach when I heard this, but I didn't say anything, because I was still a little curious. Mrs. Tsang continued, "The dish of my going to hell is a bit complicated, and it has to be done in a restaurant in Guangdong. First of all, the rooster should be plucked alive, and then hung in the cracks of the mountains and rocks, because of the effect of natural enemies, it will soon attract a lot of centipedes (centipedes), pack them up and bring them back, cook them with boiling water, and then use scissors to cut off the meat in the shell, remove the internal organs of the sandbag, and fry or blanch.

"My husband said that many restaurants in China have this dish," said Mrs. Zeng, as she drank tea, "and he went to a long-established restaurant in Beijing that used centipedes as an ingredient and could make dozens of dishes that filled a table." They dug a big hole in the backyard of the store, poured the prepared rice juice into it, and covered it with wet straw, and within a few days they could give birth to a lot of centipedes. Males and females breed with each other, and at most there can be thousands of them in the pit, and the business is very good. But my husband said that the centipedes were farmed, not wild. The real wild centipede is in the rock crevices in the wild mountains, and lives by eating small insects, etc., and the nutritional value is not the same. ”

After listening to her introduction, on the one hand, I admired the Chinese's research on eating, and on the other hand, I also had doubts, and asked: "But why is this dish called 'I go to hell'? Does it mean that people who eat this dish must have the courage to risk poisoning?"

Mrs. Zeng smiled: "Of course not, the meat of centipedes is not poisonous, and it is very safe after cooking." The one who went to hell wasn't the eater, but the rooster that was skinned alive to attract centipedes. "It dawned on me, yes, but the chicken provoked whom, and they didn't go to hell voluntarily, but were sent in by humans.

She continued to explain to me, and the last dish called "Flying Without Heart" was eaten by Mr. Zeng when he traveled to Qamdo. It requires the chef to have superb skills and not a small arm strength, pluck the live chicken without boiling water, peel the skin, and then use a sharp knife to quickly remove the internal organs, fill it with a unique seasoning sauce, and finally sew it with thread, and then tie the wings and hang it in rows. If qualified, the whole process can not exceed ten minutes, at this time the chicken is not dead, while hanging and screaming, so it is named. Because the chicken is constantly struggling, the seasoning soup can penetrate well into the tissues of all parts of the chicken, and the final stir-fried taste is naturally different. Of course, they didn't invent this dish for the sake of deliciousness, but felt that the chickens processed in this way could be eaten after suffering countless pains before they could ascend to heaven and reincarnate as a human being. But the Han people don't have so much faith, they only know that this way of eating is much better than the chicken that is slaughtered first and then bled out, and it has such a name.

Mrs. Zeng finally finished speaking, and after a long period of knowledge, to be honest, let alone eating these dishes, I felt sick after listening to them, and I even lost my appetite for these exquisite Cantonese dishes on the table. When Mrs. Zeng saw me like this, she said that she was embarrassed, and she was disgusted before, but after listening to it too much, she didn't feel it.

"Do you suspect that Mr. Zeng's current strange symptoms have something to do with the strange dishes he often eats?" I asked. Mrs. Zeng nodded, saying that those dishes were too cruel, and it was possible that they had hit the spirits of some animal.

She said: "Aren't there many offerings in your northeast, all of which are animal spirits? For example, Hu Xian is a fox, Chang Xian is a weasel, Liu Xian is a snake, and there are also hedgehogs, crows, and even owls. Ever since my husband got sick, I've been with a lot of people, first as doctors, then as shamans, goddesses, and so on, and I've learned a lot about it. Although my husband always said that it was useless and did not believe that animals have spirits, I did. ”

I thought for a moment and replied, "It's not impossible, not to mention animals, even plants are spiritual." For example, in Thailand, there are Buddha cards of tree spirits and tree demons, that is, the plantain tree has become a spirit and can conjure the soul of a human being. But after all, there are a few animals with spirits, not all animals have them, and if you want to say that chickens and sheep also have spirits, I don't seem to have heard of them. ”