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Sara Travel Adventure of the week:
My second home is a tiny house in rural Vietnam. I lived with a loving host family while participating in a volunteer international development program.

I came home from my work placement to a horror scene. My host father was outside with a huge grey creature. I walked closer and realized my father was skinning the family dog.

I felt a bit woosy from the dog blood and decided to take a nap while the animal was being chopped up. I had played a game of catch with the dog earlier that morning!

My family did not have electricity or refrigeration so the whole dog needed to be eaten that night. We had a big party with the neighbours and the dog was served everyway imaginable: fried dog, BBQ dog, stirfried dog, stewed dog, dog sausage, dog intestines, dog bone marrow etc.

Even worse was the fermented shrimp paste dipping sauce “mam tom” which is so pungent it was nicknamed “Vietnamese tear gas” by Americans GIs during the war.

There was nothing else offered during this feast, not even rice. My family gleeful looked on as I was given everything to try. I love them and could not offend or disappoint them. When I travel I respect tradition and embrace local experiences.

I later found out that the family dog had stopped eating for a few days so they decided to eat him before he died naturally. Inside the stomach my father found chewed up bits of styrofoam which must have been poisoning him.

My first time eating dog meat was traumatic but it was not my last. Our family dog was getting old so his meat was not very good. Since then I’ve been served dog meat countless times while living in and visiting Viet Nam.. It is definitely not my meat of choice but young puppies are much more tender and palatable. Hungry?

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