Birds Nest Soup (1 Viewer)

[MarkHows]

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/shared/spl/hi/picture_gallery/06/asia_pac_harvesting_birds0_nests/html/1.stm


Saw this article on the BBC website, very interesting, but I don't fancy it.


Mark

 

[Wickham]

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/shared/spl/hi/picture_gallery/06/asia_pac_harvesting_birds0_nests/html/1.stm
Saw this article on the BBC website, very interesting, but I don't fancy it.
Mark

When I was very small I thought that eating birds' nests was really true, then for many years I thought it was just a joke, then when working in Jakarta where there are lots of chinese restaurants I actually ate one.

The taste was all in the sauce really, probably soy sauce. The nest itself was a bit like gluey spagetti if I remember correctly. Expensive too, although some chinese contractors were entertaining me.

 

[Robin Pearson]

When I was very small I thought that eating birds' nests was really true, then for many years I thought it was just a joke, then when working in Jakarta where there are lots of chinese restaurants I actually ate one.

The taste was all in the sauce really, probably soy sauce. The nest itself was a bit like gluey spagetti if I remember correctly. Expensive too, although some chinese contractors were entertaining me.

So, the 'farmers' don't disturb any active nests, but would rather spend 5 hours painstakingly removing all the bits of feather and egg by hand? Yeah, right. If I was in that position I would rip them down as soon as they were built before swifty laid any eggs.

Still the birds seem plentiful enough and it's obviously not in their interests to wipe them out completely so I suppose it's OK.

 

[Hanno]

Bird nests are harvested here in Vietnam and whilst the Vietnamese usually don't give a damn about the environment, they sure protect the Swifts. It is a huge business in Asia, and very lucrative, too.