Kobe Beef

We were watching the travel channel the other night and we came across the Great Steaks of America, and as lover of steaks we decided to stay on the channel and watch the show. They featured the following restaurants(some of them I missed):

Peter Luger - NY
Hilltop - Saugus, MA
Pats King of Steak - PA - cheesesteak sandwich
Cattlemans - El paso, TX - home of the BIG TEXAN 72oz steak
Buckhorn - Denver, CO - serves alligator and CO oysters(bulls balls)
Megu - Manhattan,NY - home of Kobe Beef

The restaurant and the steak that caught my eye was the Kobe Beef from Megu. Not only were the people raving about how soft and yummy and how it was the melt in your mouth kind of beef.They showed everyone how you can even eat the beef raw just like sushi and it was good and totally different, and how when you touch the beef with your finger it would leave an impression. That was how soft it was, it just shows how there was so much fat in it that it melts. 

What I can't get over until now was the process on how the beef became so soft. The showed the viewers that in Japan they have at least 6 people per cow massaging the cow from head to toe(or I should say hoof) and there was one guy making the cow drink beer. Yes, I am not crazy and you read it right. Beer. The owner of the restaurant said that they massage the cow so it doesn't become stressed, coz when the cow is stressed the beef won't be as soft, and yes they feed it beer the whole day coz he said it relaxes the cow. Talk about having it good while you're alive hehehe...

I told this story to my officemates and figured why shouldn't they have it good when sooner than they can think they are gonna be slaughtered and eaten hehehe.. I know it's morbid but just look at how good these cows get it when the cows here in the US are being tortured.