Donkey Meat Marinated in Tiger Urine

A restaurant in northeastern China that advertised illegal tiger meat dishes was instead found instead found to be selling donkey flesh — marinated in tiger urine. The Hufulou restaurant, located beside the Heidaohezi tiger reserve near the city of Hailin, had advertised stir-fried tiger meat with chilies for 800 yuan ($98), as well as liquor flavored with tiger bone for 600 yuan ($74) a bottle, the China Daily reported. Raw meat was priced at 7,000 yuan ($864) per kilogram. The sale of tiger parts is illegal in China and officers shut down the restaurant, only to be told by owner, Ma Shikun, that the meat was actually that of donkeys, flavored with tiger urine to give the dish a special tang. The report didn’t say how the urine was obtained — via Warren Ellis