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A RESTAURANT in Harbin of Northeast China's Heilongjiang Province reportedly offers a "placenta feast" which has attracted many diners.
In order to remove people's fear of contacting infections from the placentas, the restaurant shows its guests test reports for each one to prove it is safe for eating. Staff at the restaurant bring the placenta for guests to examine before cooking to convince them it is a real placenta.
Two kinds of cooking methods are available - one involves steaming the placenta and making it into soup, the other option is to have it made into dumplings.
The placentas the restaurant uses are all bought from a hospital.
In the south of the country, meanwhile, some soup-loving Cantonese people enjoy placenta soup, seasoned with ginger, jujubes and several other Chinese herbs. A hospital's canteen even sells the soup at four yuan (50US cents) per portion. A cube of red meat floating in the broth is actually placenta.
Traders in Guangdong Province sell large fresh placentas for about 100 yuan (US$12) each and dried ones for 130 yuan (US$16).