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Some sources claim that certain restaurants serve it at a special table with a hole in the center. The monkey is tied up and the top of its skull removed with a knife. The animal, still alive, is placed under the table so its head serves as a bowl. Liquor is sometimes poured into the skull and mixed with the brain. The diners then proceed to scoop out parts of the brain, having chili and pickled ginger as condiments. The practice allegedly has led to over-hunting, especially due to the belief that eating the monkeys' brain can cure impotence. Chinese government listed Yunnan golden monkeys on the top protection list in 1977, but illegal hunting continued because the monkey's brain was considered a delicacy in some local cuisine. Monkey brain appears on a menu listed in the text ''Man Han Quan Xi'' (滿漢全席, ''Feast of Complete Manchu-Han Courses''), intended for the imperial court in Beijing during the Qing Dynasty . Paul Burrell , the former butler of Princess Diana, tells he was served monkey brains on banana leaves and coconut palms when visiting Saudi Arabia . IN POPULAR CULTURE
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