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Dog on the menu for Chinese astronauts
China's first man in space has said that Chinese astronauts eat dog meat to keep their strength up as they orbit around the earth.
 

By Malcolm Moore in Shanghai
Published: 10:28AM BST 13 May 2010


Yang Liwei, the 44-year-old military pilot who commanded the Shenzhou Five mission in 2003, revealed the menu on-board the spacecraft in his autobiography, The Nine Levels between Heaven and Earth.

"Many of my friends are curious about what we eat [in space] and think that the astronauts must have some expensive delicacies, like shark's fin or abalone," he wrote. "Actually we ate quite normal food, there is no need to keep it a secret," he added.
 
He listed a menu including braised chicken, steamed fish and dog meat from Huajiang county in Guangdong, which is famed for its nutritional benefits in China