Alligator Soup Raises Eyebrows in China
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By ELAINE KURTENBACH SHANGHAI, China - Even in anything-edible-goes-in-the-pot China, the Huifu Fine-food Restaurant is drawing attention with special menu offerings that include alligator kebabs and soup - complete with the endangered species' head and tail.
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In my slightly tilted world, soup is one of the greatest culinary creations of all time. I would have to put it right up there with the peanut butter-and-jelly sandwich and meatballs and spaghetti.
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Putting breasts and a gormless expression of child-like delight on the late Mao Zedong in the name of art may seem nothing short of blasphemous for China's culture guardians.
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Villagers in central China dug up a ton of dinosaur bones and boiled them in soup or ground them into powder for traditional medicine, believing they were from flying dragons and had healing powers.
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Chinese police tracking a suspicious vessel on a border river in southwest China got a shock when they found 270 crocodiles, a state news agency reported Monday.
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Two fossil finds in China suggest that prehistoric mammals were bigger and badder than previously thought. At least one even ate dinosaurs for dinner.
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The remains of a 230-million-old marine reptile with fangs and a long neck are unearthed by fossil hunters in southeast China.
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The 12-foot, 1,000 pound alligator is the focus of an intensive hunting expedition after Hurricane Ivan&#39;s fury sent him swimming from his confines at the Alabama Gulf Coast Zoo.
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ORIENTAL, N.C. -- A rash of safety scares that caused some Chinese imports to be pulled off store shelves -- including poisoned toothpaste, lead-tainted toys , and contaminated pet food -- has spiked demand for products made in the United States. But in the case of shrimp , America's favorite seafood, there is not enough to go around.
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China's purveyors of counterfeit goods may bode ill for the country at large
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GUANGZHOU, China  - Millions of Chinese shivered through power cuts and water shortages on Wednesday and millions more were stranded by snow and ice ahead of what is for many their only family reunion of the year.
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Fish could give you cancer, snails  meningitis and baby milk may kill your children -- barely a day  goes by without some new food horror story in China.
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In a region where monkey meat and snake-blood wine are hot menu items, the Southeast Asian country serves as a hub for selling and shipping rare&#151;and illegal&#151;delicacies.
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China accounts for about half of the global annual death toll from stomach cancer due to the Chinese taste for pickled and smoked food and unabashed enthusiasm for smoking, the official Xinhua news agency said.
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A Chinese court has ordered a holiday resort and a crocodile keeper to pay almost 220,000 yuan ($30,600) in compensation to the parents of a nine-year-old boy who was devoured by the reptiles last year.
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Many Americans remember the late Deng Xiaoping as a little man with big ideas at a Houston, Texas, barbecue grinning up at the cameras from under a ten-gallon hat.
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With health authorities on alert against an outbreak of the deadly Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome epidemic, Shenzhen, a city in south China&#39;s Guangdong Province, has banned sales of civet cats and other wild animals, a delicacy at local restaurants.