This will ruin your appetite for Chinese foods

[carlsbadworker]

[quote=CDMA ENG]And would still eat anything they serve at Ba Ren…[/quote]

Not that safe. Remember they still use ingredients from 99ranch which imported from China. And I swear that many of the items on the shelf of 99ranch do not even have an expiration date.

But still I think that food safety is over-rated. Chinese’s life expectancy is five years above the world average (that’s including the effect of air/water pollution). And it was expected to keep increasing in the next 50 years. The human body can adapt.

[carlsbadworker]

[quote=flu]jimyle, you really only need to worry about this if you go into remote areas.[/quote]

That’s wishful thinking. As long as there is profit opportunity, it could happen. Here is some picture taken in Shanghai:
[img_assist|nid=13636|title=Collecting oil|desc=|link=node|align=left|width=300|height=237]

But yes, food from street vendors have more risks. And it is not as prevalent as the media indicates.

There is one trick to determine if the cooking oil is new or not. You can order some soy sauce, mix it with the oil in a glass cup and shake. If they separate quickly and clearly, the oil is fresh. If there’re soy sauce mixed with the oil at the seperation layer, then it is questionable.

[carlsbadworker]

[quote=flu]jimyle, you really only need to worry about this if you go into remote areas.[/quote]

That’s wishful thinking. As long as there is profit opportunity, it could happen. Here is some picture taken in Shanghai:
[img_assist|nid=13636|title=Collecting oil|desc=|link=node|align=left|width=300|height=237]

But yes, food from street vendors have more risks. And it is not as prevalent as the media indicates.

There is one trick to determine if the cooking oil is new or not. You can order some soy sauce, mix it with the oil in a glass cup and shake. If they separate quickly and clearly, the oil is fresh. If there’re soy sauce mixed with the oil at the seperation layer, then it is questionable.

[carlsbadworker]

[quote=flu]jimyle, you really only need to worry about this if you go into remote areas.[/quote]

That’s wishful thinking. As long as there is profit opportunity, it could happen. Here is some picture taken in Shanghai:
[img_assist|nid=13636|title=Collecting oil|desc=|link=node|align=left|width=300|height=237]

But yes, food from street vendors have more risks. And it is not as prevalent as the media indicates.

There is one trick to determine if the cooking oil is new or not. You can order some soy sauce, mix it with the oil in a glass cup and shake. If they separate quickly and clearly, the oil is fresh. If there’re soy sauce mixed with the oil at the seperation layer, then it is questionable.

[carlsbadworker]

[quote=flu]jimyle, you really only need to worry about this if you go into remote areas.[/quote]

That’s wishful thinking. As long as there is profit opportunity, it could happen. Here is some picture taken in Shanghai:
[img_assist|nid=13636|title=Collecting oil|desc=|link=node|align=left|width=300|height=237]

But yes, food from street vendors have more risks. And it is not as prevalent as the media indicates.

There is one trick to determine if the cooking oil is new or not. You can order some soy sauce, mix it with the oil in a glass cup and shake. If they separate quickly and clearly, the oil is fresh. If there’re soy sauce mixed with the oil at the seperation layer, then it is questionable.

[carlsbadworker]

[quote=flu]jimyle, you really only need to worry about this if you go into remote areas.[/quote]

That’s wishful thinking. As long as there is profit opportunity, it could happen. Here is some picture taken in Shanghai:
[img_assist|nid=13636|title=Collecting oil|desc=|link=node|align=left|width=300|height=237]

But yes, food from street vendors have more risks. And it is not as prevalent as the media indicates.

There is one trick to determine if the cooking oil is new or not. You can order some soy sauce, mix it with the oil in a glass cup and shake. If they separate quickly and clearly, the oil is fresh. If there’re soy sauce mixed with the oil at the seperation layer, then it is questionable.

[briansd1]

I don’t eat Szechuan so I didn’t know where Ba Ren is.

Now I do.

http://www.yelp.com/biz/ba-ren-szechuan-san-diego

[briansd1]

I don’t eat Szechuan so I didn’t know where Ba Ren is.

Now I do.

http://www.yelp.com/biz/ba-ren-szechuan-san-diego

[briansd1]

I don’t eat Szechuan so I didn’t know where Ba Ren is.

Now I do.

http://www.yelp.com/biz/ba-ren-szechuan-san-diego

[briansd1]

I don’t eat Szechuan so I didn’t know where Ba Ren is.

Now I do.

http://www.yelp.com/biz/ba-ren-szechuan-san-diego

[briansd1]

I don’t eat Szechuan so I didn’t know where Ba Ren is.

Now I do.

http://www.yelp.com/biz/ba-ren-szechuan-san-diego

[ocrenter]

[quote=carlsbadworker]

Not that safe. Remember they still use ingredients from 99ranch which imported from China. And I swear that many of the items on the shelf of 99ranch do not even have an expiration date.
[/quote]

there’s plenty of stuff sold in 99ranch imported from Taiwan/Korea/Japan. you just have to avoid the cheap stuff and pay a little more per item. it is well worth the effort, imho.

[ocrenter]

[quote=carlsbadworker]

Not that safe. Remember they still use ingredients from 99ranch which imported from China. And I swear that many of the items on the shelf of 99ranch do not even have an expiration date.
[/quote]

there’s plenty of stuff sold in 99ranch imported from Taiwan/Korea/Japan. you just have to avoid the cheap stuff and pay a little more per item. it is well worth the effort, imho.

[ocrenter]

[quote=carlsbadworker]

Not that safe. Remember they still use ingredients from 99ranch which imported from China. And I swear that many of the items on the shelf of 99ranch do not even have an expiration date.
[/quote]

there’s plenty of stuff sold in 99ranch imported from Taiwan/Korea/Japan. you just have to avoid the cheap stuff and pay a little more per item. it is well worth the effort, imho.

[ocrenter]

[quote=carlsbadworker]

Not that safe. Remember they still use ingredients from 99ranch which imported from China. And I swear that many of the items on the shelf of 99ranch do not even have an expiration date.
[/quote]

there’s plenty of stuff sold in 99ranch imported from Taiwan/Korea/Japan. you just have to avoid the cheap stuff and pay a little more per item. it is well worth the effort, imho.

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