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Tuesday, November 3, 2009

Cruel Origin of Foie Gras

Foie Gras means "Fat Liver". It's very very luxury menu that originates from France. But this dish comes from FORCE FEEDING a goose to make them develop FATTY LIVER DISEASE.

Let's see the source of this "wonderful dish"

The geese are forced to eat.. even if it does not desire to.

The metal pipe pass through the throat to stomach ...even if it does not want to eat anything. To make the liver bigger and fatter the geese are kept in .....

Cages that are very small and they are forced to stay in one position to avoid using energy, thus converting all food into fat.

How sad their eyes show.....

Their legs were bloated from long standing everyday. Not allowed to sleep because they will be held to eat again.

Although they try to defend themselves, but refusal is useless.

How sad is this kind of life can be...

They are forced to eat until they are dead & their bodies can't stand it anymore... You can still see that the food is still in its' mouth

Those who survive have cramped to inflamed until their asses..bloodied as its' shit comes out with it. What other pains & sufferings can be more than such inflicted tortures.

Not only their mouth & throat hurts, all the time, their stomach ache from the food, fats bloated teir legs , with no sleep , no excercises. But also no free will for life to see the sky or river.

The result to get a "beautiful" and white liver that becomes unusually big like this. As Liver-canned from aboard.

Stop being so selfish to make predation from now on please, every single life also has their mind & value.

Please forgive my poor English as I tried my best to revise this message. Kindly help to forward it out as these poor geese in other parts of the world does not deserved to be in such deplorable state of life.

STOP THE DAILY TORTURES AND CRUELTY TO THE ANIMALS..
STOP TAKING THIS DISH OR PRODUCT FROM NOW.
STOP THE DEMAND AND THE SUPPLY WILL END.
AND THE TORTURE AND SUFFERING WILL END.

Restaurant & Location: Everywhere

Product: Foie Gras

Price: -

Reasons: Animal cruelty. I believe this is enough.

Recommendation/Substitute: -

Source:
Forwarded Mail


Monday, October 12, 2009

E-Gate Sushi King the Worst Outlet in Penang

1ST INCIDENT

Today 12 October 2009, the 1st day of Sushi King RM2 Bonanza at E-Gate outlet.
I discover a hair, NOSE HAIR or EYEBROW HAIR or who knows...

I requested Assistant Restaurant Manager, Ng Mei Yen to change another plate or same value sushi.

GUESS WHAT... She took it away and never return.

After a while i asked for a replacement. She said "NO REPLACEMENT".
The reason: no more unagi sushi or prawn sushi.

WHICH IS SO UNTRUE!!! There are many prawn sushis hidden in the racks waiting to be served.

2ND INCIDENT
This happened few months ago in the very same outlet.

There was Count the Fish Contest where you dine-in and consume minimum of 5 plates of sushi at Sushi King. Use the receipt during your next visit to Sushi King to redeem a FREE PLATE OF SUSHI!

I consumed (in Gurney Outlet) 5 plate and was given a free temaki (used the voucher below). The receipt shows 5 plates + 1 free plate.


When I made my redemption (during the next), the Assistant Restaurant Manager, Ng Mei Yen assumed i had redeemed the free plate. I explained the free plate is from use of voucher.

Disbelieve of my explanation and she called the Gurney Outlet to confirm. Which was a MOOD SPOILER!!


Restaurant name & Location: Sushi King E-Gate

Product: Prawn Tempura Sushi

Price: RM6/plate

Reasons: Bad service, poor food quality, MOOD SPOILER!!!!

Recommendation/Substitute: Japanese Restaurants


Monday, October 5, 2009

Fake Wasabi

Fake Wasabi-90% composed of chemicals which may endanger your health.

Reporting from Research Center/Taipei, Taiwan

The wasabi we find these days are found to contain many unknown ingredients. Due to the low supply and high cost of the real wasabi, even wasabi found in 5-star hotels are found to be questionable.

The fake wasabi contains high levels of metals. Though they are within safe levels of consumption, doctors have advised against consuming too much of them.

As we were passing through a fish market, we came upon a very strong scent. We found a lady preparing the wasabi mixture for the raw fish. She told us that she uses "special wasabi powder" which costs only $50/bag and they can make up to several hundred bags of wasabi paste. We even found many restaurants using this special wasabi powder to make the wasabi paste. Why is the scent so strong and what does it really contain? We continued our investigations. The conclusion we came to was the fact that there were special ingredients placed in these "special wasabi powder" even though the label simply indicates "wasabi and permitted flavoring and coloring." Experts indicate that the type of wasabi found in Taiwancannot be freeze-dried and made into powder, so it's very likely that these "special wasabi powder" have been made artificially.

A chinese chemist Wu Jia Cheng says "the label only says what its basic ingredients are but will not say what it artificially contains." Our investigative reporters took the "special wasabi powder" to the lab for testings. Lab results show the powder contains copper, lead and chromium. So how are we going to differentiate the real from the fake wasabi? A little iodine tincture will do the trick.

We found a biochemist who says that "After mixing the wasabi powder to make the paste, simply place a drop of iodine tincture onto the paste and wait 1-2 mins. If you see the brown iodine tincture changing its color into a dark blue color, it indicates the presence of starch within the paste. And within this mixture is the addition of the ingredient "propenyl mustard oil" to make the fake wasabi."

Fake wasabi gives a bright green appearance and a very strong pungent smell that will dissipate within 1/2 hr. Real wasabi is of a much lighter green. A toxicologist warned that long term consumption of this fake wasabi can lead to liver and kidney damages. We should avoid at all cost to protect our health.


哇沙米90%為化學製品,多食有害!

調查中心╱台北報導

現在的哇沙米,有很多是不明成分的化學合成物,因為真正的山葵產量少-價格高,甚至連5星級飯店都不保證用天然山葵,這種化學哇沙米部分含有重金屬,雖然沒有超過標準,但醫師提醒不要多吃。

走到傳統漁市場,一陣嗆味撲鼻而來,仔細一看,原來是賣生魚片的攤位在調哇沙米,老闆娘說她用的是山葵粉,因為這種粉便宜又大碗,50元/包,就可以調成好幾百小包,一般市場小吃店甚至餐廳都喜歡用山葵粉,只是用粉調出來的沾醬,為什麼味道特別濃嗆?這裡頭到底含有什麼成分?
記者一路追蹤到食品行,結果店家給的答案很驚人。業者表示:「我是怕說這會加化學的東西,加減都會,我們說實話,因為它這種東西有加工過,妳聽得懂我的意思嗎?」

雖然外包裝上標示裡頭的內容物有山葵、香料以及合成色素,不過專家質疑,這根本就是化學合成的哇沙米,因為台灣的山葵是不可能冷凍乾燥做成粉。

師大化學教授吳家誠指出:「它裡面的標示只標示出原料,並沒有告訴我們實際上是什麼化學成分,它很可能用這些原料,當然實際上要摻一些這種化學的這個成分,才會得到它這種有哇沙米辛辣的那種味道。」

記者拿[山葵][粉]去化驗,結果檢驗出重金屬成分有銅鉛以及砷等,到底真假哇沙米要怎麼分辨? 其實很簡單,一滴碘酒就可以知道答案。

生化博士陳耀寬指出:「我們調和好之後,拿家裡用的碘酒滴一滴在上面,經過一兩分鐘,這個褐色的碘酒,如果變成[藍黑色]的,表示它裡面有澱粉成分存在,那就是說它是用丙烯芥子油加上澱粉,混合而成的假哇沙米。」

化學合成哇沙米顏色鮮綠、味道濃嗆,[純天然的顏色比較淡],半小時之後,香辣味就會消失,滴上碘酒也不容易變色。至於山葵粉中的重金屬含量,長庚毒物科主任林杰樑強調,雖然重金屬含量符合標準,但是肝腎不好的人,最好少碰,以免造成身體的負擔。

Imported "wasabi" purchased as tiny cans of dried powder or tubes of paste is all faked up from horseradish.
Fresh real wasabi is sweet, crisp, and vegetal at the front of the tongue and hot at the back, letting you enjoy the flavors before the heat hits; then it dissipates so you can enjoy another bite.

Restaurant name & Location: In the market and Japanese restaurants

Product: The so called Wasabi

Price: -

Reasons: The fake wasabi is actually made from horseradish, mustard, corn starch and green food coloring. Long term consumption of this fake wasabi can lead to liver and kidney damages.

Recommendation/Substitute: Try ask for the real thing, doubt that any restaurants in Malaysia serve it.

Source:
Forwarded Mail
http://www.chow.com/stories/10033
http://cho-tabetai.com/wasabi/


Tuesday, September 15, 2009

Plastic Seaweed

Be careful don't get plastic seaweed...in the market now....scary to hear this, right? Just check before you eat it.

Hai, What is this.........................????

My MIL bought 1 bag of seaweed last weekend in market. She cooked seaweed soup last night, but something unbelievable happened. She washed and soaked the seaweed, then found the seaweed was different from the normal seaweed she cooked even thought same smell (seaweed smell). The seaweed ...............was a PLASTIC seaweed!!!!! It is made in CHINA . The brand name, importer and distributor as per attached photo.

Pls alert if you want to cook your seaweed soup next time.






Restaurant name & Location: Selling in the market

Product: Koala Bear Brand of Seaweeds

Price: Around RM2

Reasons: Artificial seaweed made of plastic

Recommendation/Substitute: Be careful in choosing the real the seaweed.

Source: Forward mail


Friday, September 11, 2009

Sushi King The Big Bow Challenge

Terms & Conditions:

- Big Bowl is FREE of charge for participants who finish the dish (both noodles & soup) within 10 minutes.
- Participants will be charged RM38.80 should they fail to finish the big bowl within 10 minutes.
- Only one (1) big bowl per participant.
- Participants agree that they are participating at their own risk and Sushi King will not held responsible for any mishaps.

The bowl is 3X the size of N70 phone. CAN you imagine the size!!


How much is the udon and few vege worth? RM10 or RM20 at most?


Must MUST MUST...finish the noodles and soup in 10 minutes or my RM38.80 will fly off~~~

Restaurant name & Location: Sushi King Malaysia

Product: Big Bow Challenge Noodles

Price: FREE or RM38.80

Reasons: The noodle is not worth RM38.80. It is not worth risking your stomach too "Sushi King will not held responsible for any mishaps".

Recommendation/Substitute: I believe paying RM20 for a noodle that you could enjoy at your leisure.

Source: Cari Forum


Azuma Sushi Pizza

Restaurant name & Location: Azuma Japanese Restaurant, Queensbay Mall Penang

Product: Azuma Unagi and Salmon Sushi Pizza

Price: RM28

Reasons:
Unbalanced proportion and combination of pizza
- Too much thousand island sauce
- Thin slices of unagi and salmon (the sauce cover the all the original taste)
- Very oily deep fried rice crust (the pizza base)

Recommendation/Substitute: Other Japanese food or typical Pizza


Wednesday, September 9, 2009

Please Do not eat Pangas (Dory Fish)

URGENT! URGENT! FISH LOVER,

THESE FROZEN FISH ARE AVAILABLE IN AL-MEERA, CARREFOUR, DASMAN & WATCH OUT FOR ALL FROZEN FOOD SECTION.....

fish and chips! Pangas Pangas

Be careful when you buy fish and chips.

Please share this forwarded article with your family!

It is called Sutchi and I saw many housewives snatching up the fish at supermarkets as they are really reasonably priced. The fish looks good but read the article and you will be shocked.

My colleague who deals with seafood confirmed that this is true. This product is from Vietnam and unless you know the right supplier which most of us won't, so be safe!

Hi all:

Sutchi is sold in Singapore supermarkets and I've got a stinking feeling its the same thing!

To be 100% sure that we're not eating Pangas, better not order fish n chips when eating out!!

Do you eat this frozen fish called Pangas ?

( Pangasius, Vietnamese River Cobbler, White Catfish, Gray Sole )

Industrially farmed in Vietnam along the Mekong River , Pangas or whatever they're calling it, has only been recently introduced to the French market. However, in a very short amount of time, it has grown in popularity in France . The French are slurping up Pangas like it's their last meal of soup noodles. They are very, very affordable (cheap), are sold in filets with no bones and they have a neutral (bland) flavor and texture; many would compare it to cod and sole, only much cheaper. But as tasty as some people may find it, there's, in fact, something hugely unsavory about it.

I hope the information provided here will serve as very important information for you and your future choices. Here's why I think it is better left in the shops (and not on your dinner plates):
1. Pangas are teeming with high levels of poisons and bacteria. ( industrial effluents, arsenic, and toxic and hazardous by-products of the growing industrial sector, polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs), DDT and its metabolites (DDTs), metal contaminants, chlordane-related compounds (CHLs), hexachlorocyclohexane isomers (HCHs), and hexachlorobenzene (HCB) ).

The reasons are that the Mekong River is one of the most polluted rivers on the planet and this is where pangas are farmed and industries along the river dump chemicals and industrial waste directly into it. To Note: a friend lab tests these fish and tells us to avoid eating them due to high amounts of contamination. Regardless of the reports and recommendations against selling them, the supermarkets still sell them to the general public knowing they are contaminated.

2. They freeze Pangas in contaminated river water.

3. Pangas are not environmentally sustainable, a most unsustainable food you could possibly eat - 'Buy local' means creating the least amount of environmental harm as possible. This is the very opposite end of the spectrum of sustainable consumerism. Pangas are raised in Vietnam . Pangas are fed food that comes from Peru ( more on that below ), their hormones ( which are injected into the female Pangas ) come from China . ( More about that below ) and finally, they are transported from Vietnam to France . That's not just a giant carbon foot print, that's a carbon continent of a foot print.

4. There's nothing natural about Pangas - They're fed dead fish remnants and bones, dried and ground into a flour, from South America , manioc ( cassava ) and residue from soy and grains. This kind of nourishment doesn't even remotely resemble what they eat in nature. But what it does resemble is the method of feeding mad cows ( cows were fed cows, remember? ). What they feed pangas is completely unregulated so there are most likely other dangerous substances and hormones thrown into the mix. The pangas grow at a speed light ( practically! ) : 4 times faster than in nature¡Kso it makes you wonder what exactly is in their food? Your guess is as good as mine.

5. Pangas are Injected with Hormones Derived from Urine - I don't know how someone came up with this one out but they've discovered that if they inject female Pangas with hormones made from the dehydrated urine of pregnant women, the female Pangas grow much quicker and produce eggs faster ( one Panga can lay approximately 500,000 eggs at one time ). Essentially, they're injecting fish with hormones ( they come all of the way from a pharmaceutical company in China ) to speed up the process of growth and reproduction. That isn't good. Some of you might not mind eating fish injected with dehydrated pee, so if you don't, good for you, but just consider the rest of the reasons to NOT eat it..

6. You get what you pay for - and then some. Don't be lured in by insanely cheap price of Pangas. Is it worth risking your health and the health of your family?

7. Buying Pangas supports unscrupulous, greedy evil corporations and food conglomerates that don't care about the health and well-being of human beings. They only are concerned about selling as many pangas as possible to unsuspecting consumers. These corporations only care about selling and making more money at whatever cost to the public.

8. Pangas will make you sick - If ( for reasons in #1 above ) you don't get immediately ill with vomiting, diarrhea and effects from severe food poisoning, congratulations, you have an iron stomach! But you're still ingesting POISON not poisson.

Final important note: Because of the prodigious amount of availability of Pangas, be warned that they will certainly find their way into other foods: surimi ( those pressed fish things, imitation crab sticks), fish sticks, fish terrines, and probably in some pet foods. ( Warn your dogs and cats and hamsters and gerbils and even your pet fish! ) So, when you do your next round of shopping of frozen fish, or eating out at cafes / food stalls by choosing fish-&-chips, think twice !!

You have been warned !!!


Restaurant name & Location: Any places selling Dory Fish

Product: Dory Fish / Pangas

Price: -

Reasons: Poisonous and detrimental

Recommendation/Substitute: Any suggestion on other types of fish?

Source: Forward mail