Cuisine of Dog Meat

1. Bosintang (soup)
Dog Soup is called, Gaejang, Gajangkuk, or Gujang, Gujangaeng, Guyoukgeng. It has been called Bosintang from the later part of 1940,but duringthe period of the 1988 Olympic games, it was banned to use the name ofBosintang, so its name was replaced by Youngyangtang, Sacheoltang, Mungmungtang. But nowadays, the name of Bosintang is widely used insteadof Youngyangtang. Bosintang is made by boiling dog meat with thin soy paste,tearing it into pieces, putting ingredients such as green onion, leek, stalk of taro,brake into broth, and boiling it again to make Bosintang. In Kyungsangprovince, to get rid of the smell, perilla purple are put in the soup. Perilla arealso used for ridding the smell. Taste of perilla is similar to that of dog, andit becomes a good match to dog meat. Side dishes of dog meat are Kimchi,fresh peppers, and cucumbers. Adding a glass of Soju(liquor) enhances thetaste.
The standard amount of ingredients for one portion.
(1) Ingredients
100g of boiled dog meat, 500g of gravy, 20g of green onion, 10g of a leek, 10g of perilla leaves, 100g of taro stalk soaked in water.
(2) Sauce
8g of salt, 2g of mashed garlic, 3g of perilla, 2g of red pepper, 2g of mashedginger, a little amount of pepper.
(3) Cooking instruction
After boiling the meat with gravy and stalk of taro for some time, boil againafter putting vegetables an d other ingredients into it। Before eating, sprinklepepper on it and put into an earthen bowl. The stalk of taro is to be kept in coldwater one or two days to get rid of its smell and taste.
2. Jeongol (boiled dog meat mixed with spices and vegetables)
Eat while boiling to boil down some of the soup. Add lots of dog meat andingredients. Vegetables such as dropwort, perilla leaves, green onion and otheringredients such as garlic, pepper, and red pepper are put in. It can be servedfor a side dish with Soju (liquor) or for eating boiled rice. After eating, boiled rice can be mixed with the remaining soup.
The standard amount of ingredients for one portion.
(1) Ingredients
200g of boiled dog meat, 150g of gravy, 50g of green onion, 50g of leek, 40gof dropwort, 20g of perilla
(2) Sauce
3g of salt, 5g of perilla, 10g of mashed garlic, 2g of red pepper, a little amount of pepper.
(3) Cooking Instructions
Eat while boiling the soup, dog meat, gravy, vegetables and other ingredientsin a pan। If it is excessively boiled, the color of vegetables can be changed, deteriorating the taste of the soup. So once it is boiled, cooking over a weak fire,begin eating.
Suyuk is eaten with specific ingredients or salt. Add heat to the meat by boilingwater or steam for prevention from cooling down. Ingredients are to be made ofthe mixture of soy bean paste with perilla, and one can eat the dog meat with theaddition of salt or these ingredients and wrapping it with perilla and lettuce.Eating it with mildly-boiled leek is common. When eating Suyuk, Soju(liquor) isusually accompanied by for its taste.
The standard amount of ingredients for one portion.
(1) Ingredients
200g of boiled dog meat, 50g of gravy, 1g of salt, 1g of garlic, a little amountof pepper, leek, perilla leaves
(2) Sauce
It can be enjoyed at one's taste with the addition of mixture of soy beanpaste, sesame oil, perilla oil, or with salt on it.
(3) Cooking instructions
Put dog meat and gravy and ingredients into pan, and steam it with a weakfire, eat with sauce. One can eat with boiled-leek. Perilla powder, perilla oil,mustard, vinegar are to be added to the sauce.

Chinese prostitutes shun condoms

BEIJING - MORE than half of Beijing's prostitutes do not use condoms despite sexual transmission having replaced drug use as the most common infection route for HIV, state media said on Tuesday.
Just 47 per cent of the 90,000 sex workers in China's capital used condoms, the official Xinhua news agency quoted Mr Fang Laiying, director of the municipal public health bureau, as saying.
Sexual transmission has also replaced intravenous drug use as the most common transmission route for the HIV virus for the first time in Beijing, accounting for 55 per cent of infections, the report said.But the infection rate among the city's prostitutes was unknown as Beijing does not provide a testing programme.
Free condoms are already provided in 22,000 venues in China's capital, including hotels and holiday resorts, and nearly 3,000 vending machines have been installed in entertainment sites, Xinhua said.
Condom machines are also to be installed at construction sites which employ more than 500 workers by the end of the year, the director was quoted as saying.
Beijing had reported 5,635 instances of people living with Aids or HIV by Nov 1 since the first case was reported in 1985, of which 75 per cent were from other regions in China, Xinhua said.
At the end of 2007, China had around 700,000 people living with HIV, including an estimated 85,000 who had developed Aids, according to Xinhua.
Campaigners have previously warned that the true figure could be up to 10 times higher.
Thousands were infected during the 1990s through tainted transfusions at illegal blood collection stations, but the focus of attention is now shifting to high risk groups such as gay men and sex.

Japan:No compensation for Chinese 'comfort women'

A Japanese court on Friday rejected appeals by two Chinese women forced to serve as sex slaves for Japan's army during World War II, when both were teenagers.
An exhibition of chinese comfort women who were forced to serve Japanese army during World War. [Newsphoto]The two women, Guo Xicui and Hou Qiaolian from China's Shanxi province, filed the original suit in 1996, seeking 20 million yen (US$190,000) in compensation for their suffering, saying they were repeatedly raped by Japanese soldiers posted in China during the war.
Guo was 15 years old at the time, and Hou was 13.
Hou died four years ago, and a relative has taken over her legal action.
On Friday, the Tokyo High Court upheld an earlier district court ruling rejecting their demands, said court spokesman Koji Suwabe. He refused to give further details.
High court Judge Hiromu Emi supported the 2002 district court ruling that the Japanese government does not have to pay them damages because China had waived a right to seek compensation from Japan under a 1952 peace treaty, Kyodo news agency reported.
A 20-year statute of limitations on such cases has also expired, Kyodo said.
The case could still be appealed in Japan's Supreme Court, the island country's highest, but it was not clear on Friday whether the plaintiffs planned to try.
In 2002, the Tokyo District Court had ruled that Japan's current government is not responsible for what wartime rulers had done under the prewar constitution.
The two women claim the Japanese army abducted them in 1942 during Japan's occupation of China and other parts of Asia, confined and raped them every day for about a month.
The district court judge had acknowledged that the brutality has left the women with post-traumatic stress disorder, Kyodo reported.
But on Friday, the high court judge said what the sexual assault against them was not systematically conducted or authorized by the Japanese government.
Historians say the Japanese forced up to 200,000 women, mostly Koreans but also Filipinos, Chinese and Dutch, into sexual slavery during World War II.
Dozens of court cases seeking compensation from Asia's World War II-era sex slaves and forced laborers are still pending in Japan.

Gays Living in Secrecy

BEIJING (UPI) -- Like most Chinese homosexuals, Han Yue strives to keep his secret from all but a close circle of gay friends. Like others, his biggest fear is that someone, someday, might find out he is gay.
``I've lived with this deep fear of discovery for years, and it knocks all the self-confidence out of you,'' he says, looking much older than his 32 years. ``Now I just feel inferior.''
Han Yue, a pseudonym, has been arrested twice. Once the police beat him and then informed his boss, costing him a promising job as a clerk at the Ministry of Culture.
His first homosexual encounter at 16 was snatched in the dark during a violent earthquake in 1976 that knocked out Beijing's electricity supply.
Subsequent encounters took place in parks, toilets and once at the so-called ``Democracy Wall'' in Beijing which, he says, was a favored meeting point for homosexuals during the brief democracy movement in 1979.
Han Yue is unsure of how many sexual partners he has had, but he knows the figure is high. He knows he has never used a condom and he knows, but does not care, about AIDS.
``Most of us think, 'The sooner I get it, the sooner I'll be dead,''' he said. ``We wouldn't think like that if we hadn't been hurt so badly.''
Now he shares a cramped Beijing flat with his mother. But he leaves every Lunar New Year -- China's equivalent of Christmas when families come together -- because his elder brother a few years back stumbled across a private diary recording his homosexual encounters.
``If I'm there at New Year my brother will eat, then he'll drink, then he could start talking about me and I would be finished,'' he says.
In secret, he attends ``Men's World,'' China's first support group for gay men set up in late 1992. But he is skeptical of recent official attempts to publicize the existence of homosexuality in China.
``The newspapers talk about how hard it is abroad, about how gays in America and Europe are mistreated, but they never talk about how hard it is for Chinese homosexuals,'' he said. ``We don't live like human beings. We live the life of ghosts.''
``The Forest of Ghosts'' also is the title for a book Han Yue has written recalling his experiences and those of gay friends. Stories of arrest and beatings at the hands of the police that, he says, happen every day.
The book includes a particularly disturbing passage describing the arrest and rape of one of his gay companions by members of the People's Militia, the volunteer civilian force that often patrols homosexual haunts.
``It broke him,'' Han Yue recalls. ``He wanted to commit suicide.'' ``The Forest of Ghosts'' has attracted the interest of a state-run publishing firm in south China's freewheeling Hainan Province, but so far the company's managers say the book is too sensitive to put on the market.
To Han Yue, their decision comes as little surprise. ``This is still China,'' he said. ``I really love my country like I love my mother, but she's not perfect and in some respects I hate her with all my heart.''

Employment agencies in NYC

Employment agencies in china town serves as a Chinese prostitutes services provider as an 2nd business , beside hiring illegal Mexicans ;they help Chinese girls make some cash , of course its an under the table activity.

If u walk in an employment agency in China town ask for "Tina" thats the code name to ask for a Chinese prostitute ,then tell her :"no money?" Thats how u explain u looking for a whore.Or u can ask for cindy, and tell her u have a job and u need an live in "caregiver" girl u can make choice between nepalese, chinese or tibetan girls ...u have to pay upfront. If u are a winner and if u are in the employment agency located in the basement , there are a massagy just next to the agency all u have to do is to step outside , and u will hear the girl , saying ...massagy massagy...and she may step outside , to expose her ass so u can see her , ask her if shes mi mi ...thats the code name .... have fun! Then they will tell u the details.

The Asian Fetish

Jimmy Zhao ’08 says his parents used to joke that if he ever brought a white girl home, at least they could be glad she wasn't African American.

If Zhao, who is Chinese American, did bring an African-American girlfriend back to his New Jersey home, it wouldn’t only surprise his parents. It would be a statistical anomaly.According to U.S. Census Bureau data analyzed by a sociologist at University of Massachusetts-Amherst, C.N. Le, just 0.1 percent of Chinese-American men have African-American wives, compared to 5.1 percent who are married to white women.
Zhao’s parents’ joke might be jarring to many, but it underscores the obstacles facing Asian-Americans who date across racial lines.At Harvard, students say, interracial relationships involving Asian students seem relatively common, and they may not draw as much attention as other interracial pairings.But even this prevalent form of interracial dating is bound by its own set of rules and expectations, which students say complicate every intersection of romance and race.

Relationships between Asian women and white men seem particularly commonplace, students say. According to Le’s data, a Chinese, Japanese, or Vietnamese woman is more than twice as likely as her male ethnic counterpart to have a white spouse.
Hovering over these relationships is the specter of the “Asian fetish,” Jean Yang ’08 says.
By that, Yang refers to a supposed white-male fantasy based on the stereotype that Asian women are exotic, or delicate, or more passive than females of other races.
Yang, who is Chinese American, says she would not want to date someone who was only attracted to her because of her ethnicity. Although the “Asian fetish,” is a familiar concept to her, she says it is not a concern in her present interracial relationship.
Christopher L. Hartl ’09 is dating a Chinese woman, and he says he doesn’t take the concept of the “Asian fetish” seriously.But other non-Asian Harvard men have told Hartl that, on average, they are more attracted to Asian women than to women of other races.
Even so, he says, “if somebody says that he’s only attracted to Asian women, it’s not so much a fetish as a preference.” 

"Kung Fu Fighter"

Interracial dating is more problematic for Asian men, says Edward Y. Lee ’08, who is Korean American.
Asian men do not typically date outside of their race because they are stereotypically viewed as “very un-masculine,” Lee says.
He points out that few Asian men play for American professional sports teams. And in movies, he says, Asian men still only play two roles: the kung fu fighter and the angry store owner. Asian women, in contrast, are portrayed as having increasingly varied and prominent roles, Lee says.
“It’s my goal to make the Asian man sexy again,” he jokes.
Data on interracial marriage suggests that few Korean-American men cross ethnic lines—at least at the altar.
While 24.3 percent of Korean-American women have white husbands, just 3.9 percent of Korean-American men have white wives, according to Le of UMass-Amherst. Fewer than 0.1 percent have African-American wives, according to Le.

Just as media portrayals in the U.S. may distort Asian-American masculinity, images of African-Americans abroad may make it less socially acceptable for Asian Americans to date African Americans.

In China, Jimmy Zhao says, “the only black people you’re going to see on TV are in rap videos or other negative images.” The result, he says, is that the immigrant parents of some Chinese Americans “make assumptions about [African Americans] as a people in general.”

Other Asian-American students agreed that older generations might be reticent about their children dating African Americans due in part to stereotypes about socioeconomic status.

“I think Asian-American parents more look at economic status, and they see black and Latino Americans as having a lower economic status than whites,” Quinnie Lin ’09 says. “Because a lot of these Asian parents come to this country with the goal of building a better life and getting ahead...they always strive for the best for their kids.”
The expectation can be that “ideally you would marry up, and by marry up, we mean marry white,” says Sherri Y. Geng ’09, who is Chinese American.

Beyond Color

Gayatri S. Datar ‘07, an Indian-American, also says that South Asian students usually face less family resistance if they date East Asians or Caucasians than if they date African Americans.
But, Datar stresses, religious tensions might weigh more heavily than racial stereotypes in their romantic choices.
“I’m sure that several Indian parents would much prefer their daughter to bring home a black guy than an Indian Muslim,” says Datar, who is Hindu.
Nationality can be a crucial issue when two nations have a history of conflict.