Donkey Penis... It's What's For Dinner?

In keeping with the Chinese belief that certain animals or their organs have special medicinal properties, one can only speculate about the advantages of ingesting a penis that once belonged to a poor little donkey.
China International Travel Service (CITS) prepares visitors for the fact that they might consider some of the things eaten in China to be offensive to their sensibilities.
They encourage people however, to taste them in order to “bridge the cultural gap and look at it with an open mind.”
In many shopping districts, vendors offer a range of delicacies such as seahorses on sticks, donkey penises and cicadas.
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