After our great hit The Calling Fish, we now bring you another interesting dish supposedly enjoyed by our brethren to the North. This stuff is not entirely new, but we figured most of you have probably not seen it before. But first an introduction. You may know that some older Chinese people have a rather primitive notion of the benefits of certain types of food: if erectile dysfunction occurs, eat a penis. In need of healthier body overall? Eat a placenta. Yum.

Now in our already disgusted minds, it’s not to hard to make a switch to flat out cannibalism is it? So here goes: baby soup! In the article, an anonymous reporter claims that a business man in Dongguan had contacted him to show off a rare delicacy: a soup that costs RMB 3500 a bowl which contains plants, chicken and ribs and the most important ingredient: human fetus. Please note the latter has to be fresh as it cannot be frozen and stored. Quote of the day:

“I am already 62 years old, but with the help of this soup, I can still “have a go” with my 19 year old wifey every night!”

Now it may of course be a hoax. It’s reported that these images were part of an exhibition from a few years back by a Chinese conceptual artist named Zhu Yu. This fella claimed that he used real aborted fetuses stolen from a medical school to create the piece, and that he actually cooked and ate the them “for art’s sake.” Other images are supposedly from Taiwan. We’ll leave it up to you to decide whether or not this is real. If you’ve just had your noodles or curry fish balls, you may not want to scroll down (or click ‘Continue Reading’ if you’re on the home page). Don’t say we didn’t warn you…