At least there weren't bedbugs in her dish . . .

You people are all wrong. Chinese restaurants - with the exception of really high end places that do luxury food - use frozen pre-packaged ingredients that are then defrosted before used. All the sauces come in the form of Ramen Noodle style powders loaded with Corn Starch that are then mixed with water and thrown into a Wok and reduced. Chinese restaurants have three problems that must be overcome just to survive month to month and usually: be able to predict costs, speed of preparation and finally spoilage. By buying almost all pre-made frozen goods they overcome these problems, and thats why chinese food from these joints is all the same and is always consistent. Think of this as the Chinese version of McDonalds, this is no different in terms of economics. Ever gone into one of those NYC type joints where you can all the way to the back, there isn't enough space in the back to actually set up a station to butcher and prep meats. I once saw a pile of chicken in the back, and it makes sense that the only fresh meat is frozen whole chickens that are defrosted and then used for the whole fried chickens, like legs, wings etc...I also recognized that General Tso's chicken reminded me of chicken nuggets when I saw them being used in the Chinese joints that I go to when I peered back into the kitchen. You people realize that only the most high end places could have the actually facilities and budgets to handle Pigeon and Dog? Pigeon is a very high luxury item in North Africa, Italy, French and the Middle east so only the top Mediterranian restaurants could handle such a gamey item. In Asia Dog is considered a medicinal food and a "rare item" meat. It is usually used as food in the mainstream because it is a byproduct of the fur trade. The Dog you see in those photos is usually the byproduct of the Fur trade. That fur usually goes into American clothing products for greedy Americans. Cat is also a food that is impossible to serve, especially fried because it would be so tough it would be like rubberized meat being so gamey and low in fat. Cat is also partially toxic meat so its dangerous to eat, the lay person can tell toxicity of meat by the smell of an animals shit, and cat is the worst indicating high levels of it. Wild cat meat from alley ways is also loaded with worms and parasites, so even a really wacky person would be revolted. For poor Chinese immigrants with a small corner shop, using such exotic meats is economically impossible and impractical...

Get real people, this is just a racist diatribe against a hard working group that has contributed alot to America, shame on you...

use frozen pre-packaged ingredients that are then defrosted before used. All the sauces come in the form of Ramen Noodle style powders loaded with Corn Starch that are then mixed with water and thrown into a Wok and reduced.

1. Who brings in live chicken, pigs, ducks, goose, and cows and butcher them on the spot? Of course they are all delivered frozen.

2. Do you think people use bags of frozen vegetables which cost a heck of a lot more than buying raw vegetables that you can clean and cut yourself?

3. I've never been in a kitchen where people didn't make their own sauces. And we're talking $7/dish places. Maybe this is what they do in China, I don't know. But I seriously doubt you are talking about most Chinese restaurants in America.

Here here. Now take your xenophobic hand-wringing somewhere else. This is just stupid.

In other breaking news, Gothamist turns to a bunch of BS fringe websites to back up otherwise thin reporting and perpetuate some tired stereotypes about asian food.

There's plenty of gnarly cheap meat for the taking, especially in NYC, restaurants do not need to substitute dog meat to save a buck. You think they're slaughtering dogs and disposing of the offal in the basement of New Garden? Not even remotely worth the effort. Maybe there's a secret slaughterhouse somewhere in flushing meadows! Not. Likely.

A little skepticism goes a long way, folks.

More likely? Ms Holliday got a bright idea for quick and easy lawsuit.

PS. LB ... if you think the same shit doesn't go on at Applebees, you're a sucker.

And here all this time I thought they were serving just cat for lunch ! Well I'm glad I stop eating Chinese food over twelve years ago . Word to the wise , Don't go too a Chinese Restaurant and make fun of them . They will Spit, Piss, shave off dead skin from their feet, clipped toenails, etc. and cook it into your order . I know this because a friend of mine got sick and found out all of the above was in her takeout . (Lmao) She sued them, and the city for millions . Wish I had some of that money now .

Oh please. This whole story is suspect.

Firstly, there's no way dog meat could be substituted for fish meat. Dog meat is more similar to beef, than anything. If you can't tell the difference, you're an idiot.

Secondly, pigeon meat is dark and tough, not fine and white. Squab is delicious. People usually pay a premium for it.

Thirdly, there's actually not enough meat on a cat to make it worth the effort of using for food. Cats are used far less often in Asia as food for that reason. There's no reason it would be used in America, when there is cheap and plentiful chicken meat.

I grew up around people who worked in the Chinese restaurant industry, in various Chinese restaurants all around America, Canada, and Britain. And NONE of them have used any of these meats.

Normally, I like a plump animal. I think it's cute. But the one in that picture's just plain severely obese and it sickens me.

This reminds me of a time I went into a Chinese take-out place in Astoria with my girlfriend. We stepped up to the counter to order and all of a sudden heard plaintive meows coming from behind a partition. We looked at each other with wide eyes wondering WTF. Then the girl who was about to take our order reaches behind the partition and picks up her cell phone. When she opens it to answer, the meowing stops; it was her ringtone.

OMG! Chinese restaurants serve cell phone meat!!!!!!!!!!!

Yup... right out of the can.

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If there's two things Chinese people like, it's eating our four-legged family members and having cute ringtones!

When are these restaurants going to start serving Felix meat?

Is Queens Chinese Restaurant Serving Dog Meat?

What's the big deal? I went to Ahn-yang, South Korea last year n dog meat is fucking delicious!

Do you really think a woman named Renita Holiday from Far Rockaway would be ordering fish and brown rice ? The restaurant probably refused to giver her a sixth packet of plum sauce for her sweet and sour pork.

everybody is missing the point: that big fat dog is awesome! i want to give him a hug!

Citation, or it didn't happen. Cite specific instances detailing city street pigeon meat found in Chinese takeout friend rice where the buyer didn't know it was happening.

Chicken is ridiculously cheap; it makes no economic sense to capture street pigeons for use in takeout fried rice. Rock doves, weigh 10-16 ounces, with maybe a dressed weight of 4 ounces. (Context: chickens are up to 8 pounds, with a dressed weight of 4 or 4.5 pounds.)

Rock doves caught furtively on the street would need to be converted to boneless by the buyers, not the sellers. They'd sell whole birds, or at best, quartered. Chicken quarter prices are in the 79 to 99 cent/pound range. For it to be competitive, they'd have to be able to catch 4 pigeons, spend (if they're good) about 20 minutes killing, defeathering and dressing them, and charge less than 79 cents, plus the cost of labor at the restaurant for stripping the meat off the bones. If they're sold whole, for use in chicken fried rice, the floor would be even cheaper because it's a lot of work for a typical small takeout place to defeather and debone.

But it's not just 'less than 79 cents'. Takeout places know that the typical customer buying chicken fried rice expects chicken in that rice. The risk of it getting out and officials closing their business and maybe deporting half the workers must be factored into the discount as well. It makes no sense to lie to people about it, no matter the price. No, what's more likely is that there are people who like rock dove or squab(a different kind of pigeon), and specifically order it. Maybe, just maybe, there's a restaurant or 10 out there buying serving rock dove to these people. Squab is expensive - maybe at best $4/pound wholesale and semi-boneless, so that has different economies of scale than chicken. I'll entertain the possibility there's one or two lying to their asian pigeon eating customers and selling them street-caught rock doves instead of farmed rock doves. Probably not though.

It's a similar realm as dog meat. Buying dog dishes outside of the rural areas of China and Korea is pretty expensive by local prices. It's a poor man's food, but outside the poor man's world, it's pricier to duplicate. People are paying a premium for it There's all risk and no money in pretending dog meat is anything other than dog meat, because cheap beef is cheaper than cheap dog meat.

I've lived in some of these queens neighborhoods you're not mentioning by name, and I think you're full of chickenshit. I think you get off on the idea of scaring people about meat, because you're a child and a zealot and you think truth and integrity are acceptable casualties in the pursuit of a no-meat agenda.

scaring people off meat when there is a KFC and McDonald in every corner???? Pigeons are free and the labor is cheap since most of them are illegals. There was several investigations and they admitted to buying pigeons. They couldn't denied it since it was seen and reported but they claimed it was for their own use and not for sell. But several people noted the meat was too tender for it to be chicken and they are right about that. over 98% of chickens are battery caged chickens who don't graze at all. This is why they shredded the meat so it would be harder to recognize.

 dude you are so stupid. "labor is cheap since most of them are illegals." My family owns a chinese restaurant and the workers in the Chinese restaurant business make a decent wage. They get about 4 grand a month. I doubt they would stroop that low to fucking catch pigeons and clean them?

Have you ever worked in a restaurant? The work is never ending and nobody is going to add on more work to save a few cents. Plus chicken is one of the CHEAPEST meat around.

Yeah, you said all that already. It doesn't get more convincing with each repetition. Citation, or it didn't happen.

BTW, pigeon meat is very different than chicken. It's one of the reasons why people like chicken. Pigeon is dark, and fairly tough unless it's from a young bird that's never flown before.

"So please state some facts or just STFU." Just as a suggestion; I wouldn't run back to your little elitist self-centered circle for them.