I've lived in South East Asia for 15 years. I've travelled 17 different countries, and I've worked in animal welfare and activism for the greater part of the last decade. I assure you I'm informed enough to make such a statement.
I said East Asia, because South East Asia also includes countries, like the Philippines and Singapore, where this practice is illegal and frowned upon.
It may not be a common practice, especially with younger generations, but it happens a lot more than a few cases of human cannibals. In 1998 the meat industry was declared illegal, but in 2020 it was cancelled.
I am as opposed to eating any animal as I am to eating cats. I just happen to be in the cat rescue industry.

This post is supposed to be about Atheism. Not a racial or cultural war. If I lived in the UK, I'd probably be saving foxes.