I was taken out to dinner by my excellent hosts from Chongqing University of Technology to a buffet restaurant, approx 100 dishes not including seafood which was in the other room.
Everything looked amazing, so I followed one of the group around as nothing was labelled in English. She chose nice looking dishes so I copied, At one cauldron I loaded a large ladle of meaty casserole onto my dish and she said "oh no you won't like that it's duck meat", I said I love duck and carried on.
At the end of that course the head of the table said " Kevin you are truly international!" I graciously thanked him for the compliment and asked why. He "replied our western guests always refuse to eat dog!" At which point the young lady who tried to warn me off said " oh yes dog, I thought I used the wrong word, not duck , dog!"
It was delicious so I tried to act like I wasn't surprised! ( Sorry Rog I ate one of your relatives!
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