What Does Civet Cat Taste Like? - Why you'll find it in soups, sweets, and cigarettes. By Brendan I. Koerner

By far the most celebrated and expensive use of civet, however, is in the elaborate Chinese soup known as Dragon, Tiger, and Phoenix. Civet flesh is used as the "Tiger" portion of the concoction, along with rat snake or cobra ("Dragon") and ordinary chicken ("Phoenix").