In Asia, do people scoop the brains out of a monkeys skull and eat them?
Dear Cecil: Numerous tales originating in Asia (usually Hong Kong, although I have also seen references to Singapore, Thailand, India, Japan, Korea, etc.) describe restaurants that serve monkey brains. The procedure for preparation is usually described thusly: A live monkey is brought to the table and immobilized by having his head thrust through a metal collar. In some versions scalding water is poured over his scalp to kill off the lice. Then a tool of some sort is used to smash the creature’s skull, and its brains are scooped out and consumed raw. Can you establish any truth to this, or are we dealing with just another long-running urban legend? — Mark Schreiber, Tokyo Don’t kid me, you slime–that scene in Hannibal got you salivating, didn’t it? (Or maybe it was the one in Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom.) The idea seems so gross it can’t possibly be true. But is it? We began as we always do, by seeing what we could scare up on the Web. Plenty has been written about this. The
