Chinese takeout - why does chicken taste weird?!
Answers: i heard a rumor that sometimes it's cat or dog meat.
because sometimes they do use cat or dog. gross!
it's cat. I'm sorry.
impossible. even though chinese has the potential to do that, they wouldnt.
Yep! that is definitely dog or cat. The Chinese catch all the stray dogs and cats and fix them up for dinner....just kidding. =D
Because it isn't chicken!
Its probably 5 month old chicken. A lot of places just boil chicken and store it. Very few places actually grill it.
Ive heard that many many times, and if it isnt cat or dog then its something else because it sure isnt chicken!
and not trying to disturb you, but awhile back some friends of mine lived in a neighborhood where every week a new dog would be reported missing and they had some very chinese neighbors, they just stuck with their culture. Nobody really knew but people assumed that thats where all the animals went.
But if theres anything I know, that meat is not chicken.
Ok, so I'll stand out here, but I doubt you are being served dog or cat! Perhaps your "chicken" tastes weird because of the spices, sauces, and other seasonings it has been marinating in. Since you didn't describe "weird", its hard to say. Authentic asian food usually doesn't appeal to the American palate because of its game-iness.
I highly doubt it is cat of dog meat. if a place is using that as their meat, they would more than likely have to be rasing it on their own or buying it from some underground market. The health food inspector people would obviously close a place down asap if they found out that was going on. The chicken that tasted weird is probably from it being left out to long in the open air or it was very old chicken that sat in the freezer forever, maybe both. It could even be your own tastebuds. If it didn't taste good to you, make it simple and don't eat it again.