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Q: What does donkey taste like? Expensive?
A few friends have recommended I try donkey. I'm a little irked by the thought. Anyone tried it?
It's not much different from horse or camel (though I doubt that helps much).
It's a very lean meat with long muscle fibers. If cooked right, it has the potential to basically fall apart in your mouth (though it's normally cooked overdone like most meat here). I would recommend eating it warm, or at least room temp (some places serve it cold and personally it doesn't work well with the texture).
A better question is "what does expensive taste like?"
"donkey meat with steamed bun/驴肉火烧" is a popular china famous snack around in beijing and hei bei provience, people like eat at breakfast. it is not expensive at all, you should try it. very delicious.
As DeBen said, it is hard to describe the taste without a common reference point. However, it is pretty good in my opinion.
As icerock says, it is normally served in steamed buns, or jiaotzi. I first had it when I was living in Dalian.
There is a saying in Chinese that says, "People in heaven eat Dragon. People on Earth eat Donkey." It is considered by Northerners, mostly, to be one of the best meats available. However, I have never seen it as expensive at all. The jiaotzi I had were about the same price as normal meat jiaotzi.
It is very tasty, depending on the seasoning. As some said, good in Jiaozi, but watch out after you eat it. You could make an ass out of yourself.
Donkey tastes like ass. Ba-dum bum! Thank you folks, I'll be here all week.
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I was taken by some friends to a restaurant that specialised in donkey meat. I was cooked in a number off different ways. I found it to be OK'is with a stronger taste than normal but it was not as appealing as the staples pork, beef, lamb. They said it was the "king of meats" but I would not go out of my way to eat it again.
It depends on how you like your donkey! DO you like the ass up or down on the plate? Maybe you can turn it on it's side because not everything on a donkey tastes the same. It's not expensive! It's a donkey!
yakhy I should say!
I am never going to eat donkey ever again.
never ever ate/eat donkey or horse meat. why people are eating everything?
If it's anything like horse, I'd eat it. Horse is amazing, cooked right!
I have eaten it a few times here, always in hot-pot which obscures the taste of everything.... it tasted alright, not bad, not good.
Some of my friends said it tasted like Ass~
Well if you ever eat street food, you've probably had donkey. As for the taste, well I just can't place it. I will say this, I fell in love with eat. At first I was like ugh, I'm eating donkey, then I was like you know this isn't so bad.
