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Ma Ling Pork Luncheon Meat Banned

There goes the world's yummiest luncheon pork.
Banned Can Food!
Cancer-causing antibiotic found in popular luncheon pork

SINGAPORE- The agent of a popular mainland canned pork product has initiated a recall and suspended sales after tests showed a sample contained a cancer-causing antibiotic.

The Centre for Food Safety yesterday revealed this after laboratory tests showed a sample of Shanghai Ma Ling B2 340g pork luncheon meat (less sodium) was found to have traces of nitrofurans.

The batch number is B2 5 for the product, which carries a best-before date of December 26, 2009 . According to the sole agent, the canned pork was imported on only two occasions - last December and January this year. The scare spread when Singapore 's Agri -Food and Veterinary Authority detected carcinogenic traces in a consignment of canned pork from Ma Ling and Gulong food processing factories.


These brands have been banned from entering Singapore since August 2007 for containing nitrofurans( an antibiotic for pigs)
Chinese Malaysians pls be cautious !-
Including Portuguese Malaysians (and Indians!) who enjoy this Luncheon Pork.

Restaurant name & Location: In the market around the world

Product: Ma Ling Pork Luncheon Meat

Price: -

Reasons: Containing nitrofurans (an antibiotic for pigs)

Recommendation/Substitute: Fresh meat is better then processed meat

Hot Rods with Plastic

举报无良某炸鸡连锁店！！太可恶了！！！！

刚才放工去了Bayan Baru某炸鸡连锁店吃晚餐，order了最新的HOT Rxxs吃，谁知吃到一半就不对劲，仔细看。。。原来是塑料。
早前都常听说街边的小贩为了要让香蕉糕更香脆都会在油里加点plastic, 想不到现在竟然出现在某炸鸡连锁店里！虽然可以说plastic可能是不小心掉下去的，但这也未免太离谱了。在这里警惕大家在外面吃煎炸食物前请三思。。。




Restaurant name & Location: KFC, Bayan Baru

Product: Hot Rods

Price: RM4.35 for 2 rods

Reasons: Found plastic on the Hot Rod

Recommendation/Substitute: Be aware when you eat!

Source: Forwarded mail

Cockroaches Spotted

昨天(3rd Nov 2009)在槟城Queensbay Mall吃午餐，当我们在等待同事之际，无意中发现JUSCO的面包店 （称为：LaBoheme the bakery）有几只蟑螂（至少有三只）在窗格里爬来爬去，甚至有些还爬到面包里头，实在是太恐怖了～～～～有图为证。。。。(From forwarded mail)

At LaBoheme the Bakery (Jusco's Bakery)

Do you know what is it near the tray? Have a guess.

It is a cockroach. There was at least 3 of them.

Some cockroaches even crawled on the bread

Restaurant name & Location: LaBoheme the Bakery (Jusco's Bakery), Queensbay Mall

Product: Bread

Price: -

Reasons: Cockroaches spotted on the bread

Recommendation/Substitute: There are few bread shops in Queensbay Mall

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

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

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/