Shark fin soup and Disneyland Hong Kong
Monday, 23 May 2005 22:23 pm
Disneyland Hong Kong is quickly building up to completion. I can follow progress every day as I pass it on the ferry from Discovery Bay to Central.
But this week they seem to be struggling with a small but important detail in their total service delivery; the menu for private banquets in their hotels. It includes a controversial item: shark?s fin soup.
I agree some cultural traits in Asia and especially China go against everything we’ve learned in ?the West?. However, I tend not to be bothered with it too much UNLESS it involves an animal species that is actually threatened. That is the case with shark?s fin soup.
There?s a good article on the weblog below explaining the details of this ?Chinese tradition’.
http://www.flyingchair.net/story.php?storyID=1263
Fortunately this is turning into such a media storm, that I predict an announcement from Disney soon that they will either take it off the menu or replace it by something less controversial?
Meanwhile, please don?t order shark?s fin soup, and stick with your usual gwailo-sek.
Marc
November 21st, 2006 at 11:05 am
Hello moder!