Frogs, Turtles & Sharksfin

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An honorable member of the Coffee Shop Has Just Posted the Following:

The expatriates in my office are mostly gone. They have left for the Christmas and year-end break and work is grinding to a stand-still. Even the Asians expats have gone back to China and India, though I am not sure what they are celebrating. I am rather bored and can’t wait for this week to be over and it’s my turn to chill till the end of the year 

We were messaging each other on Whatsapp and he suggested either Turtle Soup or Frog Legs for dinner. Err… I told him “Do I look like I am the sort who like these exotic dishes?”.

I am fine with Chinese food, but eating a Turtle or a Frog seems “inhumane”. He said "Chinese eats everything that moves"!

He added that these Frogs and Turtles are farmed and not caught from the open and assured me it is more humane than eating Sharksfin.

I once visited a Frog farm somewhere in Lim Chu Kang, seen with my eyes how they “ruthlessly murdered” the big fat Frog. To my horror, some of these Frog carcasses were seemingly moving after been slaughtered!

I am not sure about Turtles and where they come from. Are they farmed or caught in the open seas?

And I am not sure how one can slaughter a turtle when its head refuses to come out of the shell. I did ask my colleague, he said the “executioner” will use an S-hook, insert into the Turtle’s mouth, drag its head out of its shell and slit its neck with a sharp knife, pour out the blood. Yucks! It is beginning to sound like those ISIS murderers who behead their prisoners.

In any event, I didn’t want to disappoint him. I agreed to his dinner suggestion with reluctance. He said I will enjoy the food.

Wish me luck and I hope these “inhumane” places have other dishes than Turtles and Frogs.


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