Baby what, wine, eh?
Yes indeedy, baby mice wine. It’s wine with, well, baby mice in it.
Found in China and Korea, this deliciousness is believed to be a cure-all health tonic. Koreans in particular believe it can cure anything from asthma to liver disease.
This wine isn’t just baby mouse flavoured, or have one baby mouse inside. Oh no, it has a whole pile of them, only a few days old, floating around at the bottom of the bottle. Nasty huh? Well it gets worse – the mice are plucked from their mother’s teet, placed in the bottle alive and drowned. Perhaps that improves the flavour?
Baby Mice Wine
One thing I haven’t clarified is whether the mice are eaten/drunk along with the wine, or just filtered out. Surely if they are the source of the ‘goodness’, they should be crunched upon and ingested along with the wine.
Baby Mouse Wine
7 Comments until now.
I am Korean and never heard of this stuff. I don’t know where you got the information on that. BTW, the photo shows clearly that it’s from China.
Well, the article did say Korea AND China. Besides, just because you’re Korean, doesn’t mean you’ll know every single food item of the country. (Not to mention the difference between North and South Korea.)
Well… I’m chinese and I’m not familiar with this but I’m also not surprised. The chinese also have snake wine… sorta the same thing except a lot of snakes instead of a lot of mice.
this is.. wow. I’ve never heard of this. I was just searching up mice b/c of my boredom. I am not a animal-lover or hater but THEY DONT DESERVE THIS. snake wine??! wdf is this crap?!
Amy Tan mentions drinking mouse wine in her book “THe Secret of the Hundred Senses”.
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Chinese buddy of mine went to mainland China on vacation and came across this stuff. Yes, you do eat the mice. Brought me back a bottle of cobra wine as a gift – same idea as the baby mice wine.
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