Almost every hawker reuse cooking oil !!! How NEA & MOH going to react???

ctan84

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Huh, even for our own home consumption we also reuse frying oil. Maybe reuse a few times if we have like a batch of homemade ngor hiang to fry over a few days.

You mean people expect hawkers to use their oil only once? How much you want to pay for the food?
Not just a cost issue. But 1 of the hawker interviewed got explain and demonstrate the whole process of changing oil. Wait for oil to cool down, drain, clean up all the crumps / batter / waste at the bottom, whole thing can take 3-4 hours. How is the hawker gonna stop biz halfway to do that?
 

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Then u don’t eat until they change loh . U always have the choice .
or they use new oil everytime they cook but increase the meal by another dollar or 2 can?
 

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Anyway, the Talking Point also Jia sai boh sai pang. Keep doing these mundane topics.

Go and investigate the marine parade GRC shuttle bus lar.

Go and investigate sterra false advertising lar.

Go and investigate how much PAP earn from their kindergartens and where the monies go to lar.
 

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I dont think it's illegal? Unless it has turned nasty and causes food poisoning.

I like what one of the hawkers replied saying he still wont change the oil despite the reports. Why? "Consumers won't want to pay more, and they will complain if the downtime is too long. They choose fried food despite knowing its bad."
 

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The macik that I buy curry pok from, oil macham caramel brown.
This one not bad liao loh. The ngoh hiong downstairs my place oil is dark black one. After eating, both my wife and I had stomach discomfort for the evening. Last time ever from that store.
 

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Oil is exp. In order to cut cost , of course reused oil . U go utube could easily find videos how to clean used oil. U think U go other countries would not be affected meh???

SG is not other country, you want to have low standards is your problem. Everyone wants to strive for the better, if reusing oil is harmful we need to take measures to prevent the over-reusing of oil.

Lastly, hope you get karma end in hospital after eating food with heavily reuse oil and see you will say all this crap or not.
 

serangoon1

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hawkers earning thin margins with rental, utilities and material costs rising

cannot expect them to keep changing oil and still earn healthy margins while giving us good quality healthy food

something got to give
1 tin of 17l healthier oil is around $30+

The fryer is 20l type. Not possible for them to spend more than $900 on oil alone in a month.
 

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SG is not other country, you want to have low standards is your problem. Everyone wants to strive for the better, if reusing oil is harmful we need to take measures to prevent the over-reusing of oil.

Lastly, hope you get karma end in hospital after eating food with heavily reuse oil and see you will say all this crap or not.
Easy for you to say that. Now everything keep increasing.

Unless people are really willing to pay more and our dear govt be more merciful, don't anyhow increase this and that.
 

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actually how to define how many times is the oil reused?

eg. a western stall start deep drying 10 chicken wings in 1 go using fresh oil. after all the chicken wings are done the stall owner puts in another 10 chicken wings.

like that considered reuse?
 

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fast food restaurant has rules how often to change ,unlike hawkers who use black oil
 
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