Flat Rat Suprise

We had heard that fried rat with garlic was a local delicacy in Guilin. We hadn't heard that they don't bother to skin the rat. But our cook leaves the heads on our fish and chicken, so I guess we shouldn't have been suprised. Had the rat been of the meat-on-a-stick variety popular in China I would have tried it. But not when it can still squeak at me.