Comments on: Baby mice wine

By: amy

amy — Mon, 24 Oct 2011 10:12:13 +0000

The baby mice wine is not from Korea. It is from China. I lived in korea for over 10 years and have never heard of this stuff. Not to mention none of my korean friends(young and old) have never heard of this either. Plus the picture shows Chinese words on the wine bottle, not korean. Being curious, I did some researching and it turns out it does originate from china and definitely not a part of korean tradition or cuisine.

I understand that to most north americans, all asian characters look the same but in an article where you state the origins of an item, you should be more careful about it, as it could upset a lot of people.

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By: gale

gale — Tue, 03 May 2011 09:48:46 +0000

yah i agree it is chinese not a korean,,, i saw it a tv show here in japan,, it is from china…

By: KaiKaiKai

KaiKaiKai — Sat, 09 Apr 2011 08:52:06 +0000

not the weirdest or grossest thing ive ever seen.
although id imagine it smells and tastes horrible.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Mon, 31 Jan 2011 03:35:59 +0000

Yeah, what Stanley said.

By the way, if you look up this wine on the internet, you will see that many other websites list it as a Korean product. So it’s not necessarily the fault of this blogger that it was reported here as Korean. Apparently there is some inaccurate info about this wine floating about.

By: Stanley Steamer

Stanley Steamer — Thu, 18 Nov 2010 04:47:03 +0000

I just love how the first thing everyone notices is how the label is Chinese and not Korean. As opposed to noticing how this is a bottle of dead baby mice in gasoline. It doesn’t matter if the label is in Klingon, that’s messed up.

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[...] What would be the most disgusting substance you could imagine flavouring your wine with? Well, I’m sure baby mice would not come too far off? Baby mice wine is a traditional Chinese health drink, which is brewed by drowning alive baby mice, maximum three days old, in rice moonshine and letting them to ferment in the bottle for about a year. According to local Chinese belief, mouse wine is a cure to just about any illness imaginable, including asthma and liver problems among others. (Link) [...]

By: Mad God

Mad God — Mon, 18 Oct 2010 22:12:28 +0000

Hmm. Fascinating. Does anyone know if there is a brand of wine made with dead human babies?

By: janna

janna — Wed, 29 Sep 2010 11:37:23 +0000

i’ve lived in korea for years as an english teacher (i am american) and although i have seen some unusual and exotic foods, i have never ever seen or heard of this product. i have asked my korean friends about it and neither have they heard about it. even if you are going to stick to the claim that this product is korean (when in fact, the label on the bottle is clearly written in all chinese), i’d be careful to call it “traditional”.