--- title: Lady Gaga: Meat Dress Doll Served at Chinese Restaurant description: Diners in Beijing, China can now order replicas of Lady Gaga's notorious raw meat dress to eat with their hot pot meals. canonical: https://time.com/4466017/lady-gaga-meat-dress-hot-pot/ author: Cady Lang article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2016-08-25T15:08:47.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-04-13T07:35:51.207Z og:title: You Can Now Order Lady Gaga's Infamous Meat Dress For Dinner og:description: Talk about functional fashion og:url: https://time.com/4466017/lady-gaga-meat-dress-hot-pot/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blte430fca172ed2509/6988a3a1cf40a880c8c4494c/lady-gaga-meat-dress-hot-pot.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: 2010 MTV Video Music Awards - Show og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: You Can Now Order Lady Gaga's Infamous Meat Dress For Dinner twitter:description: Talk about functional fashion twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blte430fca172ed2509/6988a3a1cf40a880c8c4494c/lady-gaga-meat-dress-hot-pot.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # Now You Can Order Lady Gaga's Infamous Meat Dress For Dinner  by [Cady Lang](https://time.com/author/cady-lang/)  ## Cady Lang Aug 25, 2016 3:08 PM UTC  Lady Gaga accepts the Video of the Year award onstage during the 2010 MTV Video Music Awards at NOKIA Theatre L.A. LIVE on September 12, 2010 in Los Angeles, California. (Photo by Kevin Winter/Getty Images) Lady Gaga accepts the Video of the Year award onstage during the 2010 MTV Video Music Awards at NOKIA Theatre L.A. LIVE on September 12, 2010 in Los Angeles, California. (Photo by Kevin Winter/Getty Images)Kevin Winter—Getty Images  by [Cady Lang](https://time.com/author/cady-lang/)  ## Cady Lang Aug 25, 2016 3:08 PM UTC When [Lady Gaga](http://time.com/4224873/oscars-2016-lady-gaga-oscars/) arrived at the 2010 [MTV Video Music Awards](http://time.com/4464814/mtv-vmas-taylor-swift/) clad in [a revealing dress made completely of raw meat](http://newsfeed.time.com/2010/09/14/petas-verdict-on-lady-gagas-meat-dress-not-well-done/), the reactions ranged from awe to outrage from ardent animal activists. Now, six years later, her notorious dress — designed by Franc Fernandez and styled by Nicola Formichetti — is back, albeit in the form of a [hot pot](http://time.com/4203023/ikea-taiwan-hot-pot-smart-phone/) order in Beijing, China. The unique menu item consists of a miniature replica of Gaga sheathed in a raw steak dress; as the slices of meat are removed to be cooked in the sizzling oil of the hot pot, the doll loses more and more of her “clothes.” Like its predecessor, the hot pot pret-a-porter meat dresses come with their fair share of controversy — the main concerns stemming from disputes with sexism and cleanliness. > [](https://twitter.com/iheartbeijing/status/767343892102610944) As for Gaga’s original meat dress, which originated [as a protest](http://www.mtv.com/news/1647701/lady-gaga-talks-vma-meat-suit-with-ellen-degeneres/) against the [U.S. military’s “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” policy](http://content.time.com/time/nation/article/0,8599,1825801,00.html), it went on display in 2011 at the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame after being preserved like beef jerky by taxidermists. ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4466017/lady-gaga-meat-dress-hot-pot/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4466017/lady-gaga-meat-dress-hot-pot/"},"headline":"Now You Can Order Lady Gaga's Infamous Meat Dress For Dinner","datePublished":"2016-08-25T15:08:47.000Z","dateModified":"2026-04-13T07:35:51.207Z","description":"Talk about functional fashion","url":"https://time.com/4466017/lady-gaga-meat-dress-hot-pot/","keywords":["Newsfeed","Entertainment","Music","fashion","celebrity","Lady Gaga"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blte430fca172ed2509/6988a3a1cf40a880c8c4494c/lady-gaga-meat-dress-hot-pot.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Cady Lang","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/cady-lang/"}],"articleSection":"","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blte430fca172ed2509/6988a3a1cf40a880c8c4494c/lady-gaga-meat-dress-hot-pot.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"2010 MTV Video Music Awards - Show","caption":"2010 MTV Video Music Awards - Show","creditText":"Kevin Winter—Getty Images","representativeOfPage":true}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/tag/time-section-newsfeed/","name":"Newsfeed"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/4466017/lady-gaga-meat-dress-hot-pot/","name":"Now You Can Order Lady Gaga's Infamous Meat Dress For Dinner"}}]}] ```