[Sca-cooks] Tiger Recipes?

[Siegfried Heydrich]

    When I was in Hong Kong back in the '70s, I was treated to what was
considered a fabulous dish - tiger penis soup. It was reputed to do wonders
for one's libido, and was very popular with rich older roués. Being a poor
younger roué, it wasn't that I really needed it, mind you . . . While I
wasn't paying for it, I was given to understand that the soup was about a
months wages for me. I didn't think it was all that great, TBRH.
    I remember seeing tiger parts all over - every apothecary had an
unbelievable assortment of animal parts in stock. Bones, organs, teeth,
claws, skins, you name it. There had to have been thousands of tigers being
raised in backyard cages all over the place. I thought they were pets at
first, until someone explained to me that they were being raised for
slaughter, and they used everything but the roar.

    Sieggy

----- Original Message -----
>
> > There's probably a reason why the only instances
> > I've seen of tiger consumption by humans (rather than vice-
> > versa) are strictly medicinal . . . :)
>
> Peter Lund Simmonds says in The Curiosities of Food (lotsa interesting
stuff
> in that book, BTW): "The natives of the Malay Peninsula eat the flesh of
the
> tiger, believing it to be a sovereign specific for all diseases, imparting
> to him who partakes of it the courage and sagacity of the animal."
>
> Nanna
>
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