Years ago I was in Guilin with some Chinese friends, and we were having dinner in one of the local restaurants by the River Li. I recall the small, locally caught fried river fish where very good, as was the Osmanthus Flower wine. Anyway, they served this other dish, and it had this light pinkish sliced meat in it, mixed up with a creamy vegetable sauce, celery and lotus bulbs. It was pretty delicious, and I asked what it was. There was much discussion about this in Chinese, until they replied to me "Chris, we don't know the name of the animal in English, but we can describe it for you. It's black, and white, and lives in the jungle and eats bamboo". I nearly fell off my chair. Then they said "The chef says he has another one in the kitchen if you want to see it". So I did. And there, in a cage, in the kitchen at the back of the restaurant was this: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bamboo_rat