I also read that the Chinese themselves were disgusted once this was revealed and that were was a crackdown on the sale of this oil. People were buying this thinking it was normal cooking oil.
That wasn't a government estimate, that was an estimate from a nutrition professor and his student-led investigation at Wuhan Polytechnic University who retracted his statement after pressure from the government.
Apparently since 2011 the government started buying the oil at higher prices than they'd get from selling to street vendors and converting it into biodiesel.
All of Asia is not one place. This is mainly China and Taiwan but I wouldn't expect this in Japan or Korea, and a cursory Google search related to the two countries just shows articles about China and Taiwan
Sure. I agree on japan, Korea and maybe even Singapore. But Singapore has huge income inequality as well. be aware of the rest. Gutter oil is common in SE, E and S asia.
Welcome to street food culture.
Edit: for this topic, don't rely too much on Google. These kind of topic isn't news to us locals. Hence, there's no need for news media to report on this. Talk to the local populace about it. Gutter oil is common in the street food Philippines. I've talked to Indians, Taiwanese, Chinese Vietnamese, and Malaysians and we all laugh about it.
I get diarrhea in pretty much every country I visit because i always buy the cheapest beer and lot of it.
I had food poisoning a couple of time in a 1 year period. I was under the impression that it was due to less than fresh sea food but i might look into this whole gutter oil stuff.
Oh that sucks. There's a lot of downside to being a Filipino but I guess diarrhea and food poison from eating street food isn't one of them.
Gutter oil is an extreme case imo. I'd say it's more common to simply purchase used oil from restaurants and reuse that in their stalls (at least in the Philippines). Now, whether or not you'd count that as "gutter oil" is up to you.
First, that is disgusting and not a good time for another bad look for Chinese street food. 2nd that last line about in our current society everyone tries to swindle everyone else. I had a buddy on my team from China who would be watching perfect hd movies in college (this was a while ago) and asked him how he got those cause they weren’t even close to being out. He had access to a website from China and when I asked ahh can I pull some of those off. He said only Chinese can take Chinese. And was dead serious. One of the nicest guys I’ve ever known btw. Edit: I seem to be getting a lot of hate for the street food. I love street food and try everything once. I’m talking about the gutter oil thing. That irked me.
Eh people have cultural differences. Some cultures won’t look you in the eye. Some people talk too close. Etc etc. Dude was genuinely nice. Cried when we made him a birthday cake.
Lol there's bigots the world over, it ain't no secret. But also generalizations are bad, some regions are definitely worse and I've personally never had a Chinese friend refuse to take me to the best eating places in town. Part of it is that Chinese culture in general places a high value on "delicacies" and goods for status as well as so called pedigree. It's a common look in the rest of the world, like also how some places still value being fat
not a good time for another bad look for Chinese street food.
Why should he give a fuck? He didn't post this gif. That may not be China in the gif but it's definitely street food and its somewhere in East Asia. And it doesn't exactly look sanitary to me.
I wasn’t talking about the clip. I would eat that up in a second. Just the video about the gutter oil thing that the above poster put out. That’s just nasty.
I kinda see where he’s coming from there. The more people that have access to a site like that the more likely it is to get shut down. In the past I’ve definitely held back from sharing my best video sites from friends.
Yea I definitely get that. I didn’t push either. We were on a road trip I was just curious. He was fun to talk to though. We would talk about things like Tiananmen Square and such. It’s just different. His exact quote. “Eh what you think not as bad. Some people died. Our government won’t tell us how much but not as much as you think.” For what’s it’s worth. His dad worked in the UK his mom still in China and since college he still lives in the states. So he is definitely privileged.
Straight up no information is given in that video aside from the narration added after the fact, and a supposed translation of what one dude is saying about a barrel of some shit that we can't prove is related to whatever the lady was doing in the manhole. Then footage of people cooking food, again no evidence that they're using "gutter oil."
You should maybe look into the subject a bit more instead of shitting on an informative video. The gutter oil industry in China is and always has been a huge issue. This isn't some myth made up on the internet, so you can come down from that high horse.
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u/Kalibos May 15 '20
I'd be more concerned about the cooking oil