Hawkers seen mixing melted plastic with goreng pisang
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JOHOR - SOME hawkers in Johor Baru are literally cooking popular snacks such as goreng pisang and keledek with melted plastic, creating a health scare, a news report said.
The News Straits Times reported recently that e-mails on the unethical practice have been circulating to warn people of the potential health hazards of eating extra crispy fried snacks or even chicken.
The e-mails describe how some hawkers had been seen adding plastic straws and bottles into boiling oil before frying their snacks.
The snacks would then remain crispy for several hours. Factory worker Rauf Hamdan, 24, was cited by the newspaper as one of the 'witnesses'.
Mr Rauf said he saw a goreng pisang seller in Johor Baru throw a plastic bottle into boiling oil.
"When I asked the hawker about it, he just said matter-of-factly that his customers had not complained of any health hazards from eating his goreng pisang."
"He also said this 'recipe' was now popular among many hawkers like him."
Plastic bottles are made of polyvinyl chloride (PVC) which can cause various forms of cancer and birth deformities if ingested.
According to the e-mails cited by New Straits Times, the trend allegedly started in Thailand, for frying ikan bilis and onions.
It spread to Kedah and Perlis, then the rest of the country, the report said.
Another witness said via email that his uncle had allegedly seen a goreng pisang seller adding plastic drinking straws into hot oil in Perlis.
According another e-mail, a hawker in Cameron Highlands allegedly melted a five-litre empty cooking oil bottle in boiling oil by stirring it in, New Straits Times reported.
Similar accounts are spreading among blogs.
The Consumers Association of Penang research officer T. Subbarao said that the agency would launch an immediate investigation. -
i wonder.. thank goodness i didn't eat anything crisp when i was in KL recently..
must remember that from now on..
hmmm.. Malaysia Boleh! must be trying to outdo China..
China got cardboard pau
Malaysia got plastic pisang goreng
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What can I say -_-"
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actually, we could have found KFC's secret ingredient!
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Oo Oh crap...
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Originally posted by the Bear:
i wonder.. thank goodness i didn't eat anything crisp when i was in KL recently..
must remember that from now on..
hmmm.. Malaysia Boleh! must be trying to outdo China..
China got cardboard pau
Malaysia got plastic pisang goreng
Make that plastic coated pisang goreng
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so if it's cold but still crispy ........
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Originally posted by Fatum:
so if it's cold but still crispy ........
Like I was telling Bear earlier Chicken Wings coated with rice flour stays crispy even when cold and he told me it was rice flour enhanced with plastic >.<" -
I hope a few of them become careless enough to fry the cooking oil bottle with the cap screwed on.
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Malaysia Boleh!!!
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So, how long before this practice spreads to Singapore and we start seeing plasticized Old Chang Kee curry puffs?
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And the worst thing is the government actually think that most of us can live till 80+.
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Gross...
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Originally posted by the Bear:
actually, we could have found KFC's secret ingredient!
I think they lost it... cos the taste and size of their chicken became more worse with each year they operate... -
i luv goreng pisang! can't spot the plastic le h.
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Originally posted by the Bear:
actually, we could have found KFC's secret ingredient!
haha I for one can vouch to say that's untrue .... bloody KFC, tarpow home less than 1hr already soggy leow.
TX
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Originally posted by True_Xerion:
haha I for one can vouch to say that's untrue .... bloody KFC, tarpow home less than 1hr already soggy leow.
TX
then eat there lo
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Originally posted by FirePig:
And the worst thing is the government actually think that most of us can live till 80+.
if this issue is really true, confirm can lol!
remember, plastic is non-biodegradable! Ur innards won't KO, harder to die mah
TX
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Originally posted by rlsh07:
then eat there lo
i juz had, twice in 2 weeks
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Originally posted by True_Xerion:
i juz had, twice in 2 weeks
is it? nice wat. why u look so gloomy though? -
but this incident happen in m'sia not in singapore though
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wah!!
they must be extremely environment friendly
recycle the plastic bags this way
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Originally posted by maurizio13:
wah!!
they must be extremely environment friendly
recycle the plastic bags this way
is that so? not recycling. it's just wasted in the human bodies though
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Okay..... I've got just one question to ask:
How much kopi money did they pay to the health inspectors to turn a blind eye?
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Originally posted by rlsh07:
is that so? not recycling. it's just wasted in the human bodies though
it just harms the bodies not the environment.
M'sia so enviromentally friendly.