Vietnamese restaurants serve pet cats as baby tigers with noodles

#babytiger #Vietnam #Hanoi #catmeat #BacNinh It is a thriving trade where pet cats are snatched off the streets, killed and passed off to the unsuspecting customers as baby tigers. These are served with noodles as reported in dailymail.co.uk dated 16 April 2015. The cats are slaughtered in tens of thousands across Asia - to feed the booming appetite for their meat in Vietnam and restaurants that specialize in this sort of cuisine of serving domestic cats as 'baby tiger' are mushrooming across northern Vietnam. This is in spite of laws against eating the animals.

The man who steals the cats gets paid anything from £37 to £52 for every animal by the owners of restaurants. It may be recalled that in January a lorry with three tonnes of cats crammed into bamboo cages stacked one on top of another was seized by police as it was on its way from China to Hanoi. In Va Town located in Bac Ninh province which is an hour's drive from Hanoi, ‘baby tiger’ is in the daily menu of a popular restaurant. The most popular dishes of this restaurant are cat meat hot pot – this is on sale for around £40 pounds and feeds seven. This is a huge sum in rural Vietnam. Of course, cat meat noodles are priced at £3 pounds a bowl. As a restaurant owner has admitted - the best cats are aged two and a half years old and weigh 2.5-Kg and the live cats come for £3.50 per Kg and the meat sells for about £7 per Kg. The clientele consists of lawyers, policemen and company directors who eat it at the start of the lunar month. Then there are the factory workers who eat it at the beginning of the month. And, the rich people eat it all month long.

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