tiger wine benefits

you know it's funny...I worked at a chinese restaurant and the owners (a small family run place) ate chicken feet. It was so gross, it had the claws and everything on it. The wife told me that chicken feet were good for you because it made your legs stronger. What kind of thinking is that? It doesn't make sense to me. I guess its similiar to using tiger bone and thinking it will make you strong like a tiger. Is there any proof that this is true?

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Mark R.

When cooked, the fatty tissue and cartilage between the skin and bone turns into collagen & gelatin. Gelatin is very high in protein and collagen has calcium. So eating this part will help build muscle and bone. But not just for the legs.

Pig feet also cook up like this, lots of collagen, but are meatier.

You ought to come up to Boston or New York and have dim sum. Chicken feet are about the tamest thing on the menu in some places.

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Chinese parks 'sell tiger wine'

Nothing really surprising here- why waste a carcass if you can get some $?

I tried what was purported to be the real thing, the Tiger bone wine that is...
Chicken feet? All the time, delicious. Instantly lets the dim-sum lady know you mean business too.
Just made a huge pot of portuguese bean soup,
(kinda like this one...'Ono Kine Grindz: Portuguese Bean Soup (Sopa de Feijao)
...but i use watercress instead of cabbage, and used about 7lbs of ham hocks and shanks, but otherwise very similar,) for the gelatin etc.

Seahorse, gecko and the like are readily available.
Heck, there's even a restaurant known for kelaguen aso (Filipino dog-meat stew), and they have a line out the door.
None of that is as strange imo as someone who eats factory farm beef/pork/chicken, but could not slaughter the animal in question.

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Feijoado ... good stuff! There's a little Brazilian market at the end of the block I used to live on, with a buffet in the back (very common in the Brazilian stores here). On Sundays the owner makes it, supposed to be one of the best in town.

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"Whatever the case, it proves that countless disasters can be prevented by simply assuming everyone you're working with is a moron." ~ Adam Brown, 5 Tiny Mistakes...

My uncle always says, "Ho, stick to da ribs, brah."

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"It is better to keep your mouth shut and be thought the fool, than to open it and prove it so." KungFuTze
"Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don't matter and those who matter don't mind." T. Geisel