Taiwan Eatery Offers Rat Meat

Dare enough to try the rat dish as a welcome of the Year of Rat 2008? A 58-year-old Taiwan eatery who offers rat meat as winter tonics. In China and Taiwan, the rat meat has became popular especially in the 1940s and 1950s as people would not afford to buy chicken or pork. Ho-la, a rural eatery at Taiwan's Chiayi county, serves 10 rat-themed dishes, including rat soup, black pepper-dipped and deep-fried rat. The diner goes through around 18 kg (40 lb) of rat meat per day.