'I'll have 2 bowls of tiger urine...'

'I'll have 2 bowls of tiger urine...'

BEIJING: A restaurant in northeast China has been raided and closed for listing stir fried-tiger meat on its menu, a dish that turned out to be donkey dressed with tiger urine.

The Hufulou restaurant in Hailin city in Heilongjiang province is located barely one kilometer from the Hengdaohezi Siberian Tiger Park, home to a species listed as one of the 10 most endangered in the world.

It was offering a dish of stir-fried tiger meat with hot peppers for 800 yuan (US$98), and raw tiger meat at 7,000 yuan ($863) a kilogram, the China Daily reported Thursday.

Diners could wash it down with a bottle of wine pickled with tiger bone.

When asked how the restaurant obtained the meat, a waiter reportedly said the owner had good connections within the tiger park and got the meat of dead tigers.

Police subsequently raided the restaurant and the owner confessed the so-called tiger meat was actually donkey meat dressed with tiger urine to give it a "special" flavor. --AFP