07/16/20 MISSION TRIP TO CHINA #4 — Just a few days before our trip ended we were treated to lunch in a high-end restaurant. All the round tables were occupied and all the patrons had already been served except one exceptionally large one in the very center—ours. On the way in I spied a glass case displaying the meat selections; when I asked the chef if one was a cat, he said “Yes!”

My plan was to pay close attention and avoid a feline dish. But there must have been at least a dozen different courses. Two Chinese women missionaries were seated on either side of me. They were not satisfied with which dishes I tried and how much I was eating; they began literally trying to stuff food into my mouth. So my plan disappeared; I no longer had any idea what I had eaten or skipped.

As we were leaving I noticed that the display case no longer held a skinned cat. Fearfully I asked if I had consumed one of my favorite pets. YEP! To this day I often get the creeps when anyone mentions “cat food.”