Acquaintance of mine from china apparently tried monkey brain. It was outlawed some time ago, but he said it was quite good.
A colleague of mine who visited our office in China in 2001 had money brain.
According to him this is how they serve monkey brain:
You go to the restaurant and everyone is sitting on the chairs with the table in front of them. And everyone orderd monkey brain
Suddenly they take away the entire table
Then there is a new table dragged in its place and there is a steel bowl upside down covering something in front of everyone.
When you remove the bowl you see the monkey brain cooked.
The brain is not in a plate but in the Monkey's skull which is sawed off from the top.
the brain is removed, cooked and put back in the skull again..
Not only that when my colleague looked under the table the entire monkey was hanging below from the hole in the table.
They did not cut the monkey's head off, they have adjustable holes in the table to fit the skull.. Just that the table cloth is long enough that he did not see the monkey when they dragged the table..
Of all that i have eaten i dont think i would have been able to eat that...