Get Over It: There's a Penis Restaurant in China

Required Eating

Posted by Erin Zimmer, March 18, 2008 at 5:30 PM

Haute genitalia is what you'll find at Beijing's Guo-li-Zhuang restaurant, including schlongs of water buffaloes, deer dick juice (sour as lemon, apparently), and yak's "goods." Our ears (and maybe other things) perk up, but after so much international coverage, aren't we over it yet? BBC and Telegraph News both covered it in 2006, and earlier this week, there it was again in the Times of London travel section. Whoop-dee-doo, they serve groins on platters! Earlier this month, Andrew Zimmern also swung by the testicle emporium on his show, making the obligatory phallic jokes (un-funny ones too).

Exposing this long-standing Chinese culinary tradition is almost guaranteed to garner enough web buzz for most-emailed article status, potentially saving a frenzied newsroom. "Send another reporter to that penis restaurant, quick! Nobody is reading us!" And with the Beijing Olympics in August, we can assume to read a few more articles when foreign correspondents inevitably get desperate for non-sports-related human interest coverage in China.

If this topic interests you, please see the nine other Serious Eats related posts tagged with "penis." (Aside: Is this the most e-mailed story of the day yet?)

Erin Zimmer is a new media analyst who frequently writes for Washingtonian, DCist, and other D.C. publications.

12 Comments | Tags: Beijing, China, penis, weird

12 Comments:

Won't someone think of the children?!?

Raphael at 5:46PM on 03/18/08

om nom nom nom NOT

roboppy at 5:55PM on 03/18/08

Hear, hear!

Adam Kuban at 7:21PM on 03/18/08

THAT's where David Chang should work!

srhcb at 8:19PM on 03/18/08

I wholly agree....I read the BBC news obsessively and it seems at least every two weeks or so someone drags that article up and starts e-mailing it about so that it appears on the "Most Read" section once again. >_

feriorrenna at 8:49PM on 03/18/08

Thank you. Breaking news: in Asia (and probably elsewhere) they eat nether parts. So .

Robyn at 10:11PM on 03/18/08

i've been to the phallalogical museum in iceland, but there was no affiliated restaurant (thankfully).

j at 9:52AM on 03/19/08

If this topic interests you, please see the nine other Serious Eats related posts tagged with "penis." (Aside: Is this the most e-mailed story of the day yet?)
Erin

I'm curious too, Erin.

Has anyone measured it?

Karen Resta at 1:20PM on 03/19/08

Kind of gives "spotted dick" a whole new meaning, huh?

RichardCrystal at 4:32PM on 03/19/08

NO NO and NO.

JerzeeTomato at 10:57PM on 03/19/08

Cow Cod Soup (funny name, given that cows don't have cods) is famous in Jamaica and quite delicious.

Argol at 11:53AM on 03/23/08

i've been eating beef jerky for years. is that wrong?

heresnookysnooky at 12:48AM on 05/09/08

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