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Chef Lin Kuei-chien holds a rat meat dish inside the Ho-La restaurant in Chiayi January 25, 2008. Diners at two Taiwan village restaurants smell a rat each time they sit down to eat. And they love it. The Ho-la Diner and the Jiashing restaurant have run five or six rat eateries out of town over nearly six decades of business to become the top two ahead of the lunar calendar’s Year of the Rat, which begins on February 7. Picture taken January 25, 2008. To match feature TAIWAN-RATMEAT REUTERS/Nicky Loh (TAIWAN)