We can always leave apart the cliche of bird flu and move beyond to realize the delectable offering served by the Vietnamese Restaurant Nhat Tan Ward – dog meat.
Dog meat is the best food served in this restaurant. A feature reports many associations of the Vietnamese to dog meat and these associations start with get-togethers in dog meat restaurants to ward of bad luck, as a convenient place for parties and as a health food and the importance of having dog-meat at a get-together extends up to weddings in many places. The dog that is cooked should be a year old and it can be cooked in seven different ways including head, feet and internal organs of the dog.
As per the report by Nguyen Ngoc Trung:
Dogmeat can be cooked in over 7 dishes, including boiled, barbecued, served with mam tom (shrimp sauce), and roasted with local herbs. Rice wine is the favorite drink to toast with it.
Lots of wine and spices are used to ward off the strong smell from the meat. Yet another article in BBC has given the reason of cooking dog-meat in an exotic way:
It is particularly popular in the urban areas of the north where increasing incomes have sparked a search for new and more exotic recipes.
There is no doubt that dog-meat sellers gain a lot of profit in the lunar month, but the fact that the consumers of dog-meat have raised it to the level of ethnic cuisine, is very well seen in the upcoming of dog-meat restaurants in Vietnam.
