Comments by "May L" (@MeiinUK) on "Adam Ragusea"
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@AjitKomurlekar : It does not have to be a "Christian" culture or thing... Even the Chinese... (like my mom raised pig's too).... and we also ate fishes as well.... This is why, if you raise the animal well, then what you eat is also well too. Pigs in the UK, especially domesticated, and farmed animals, their welfare standard is EXTREMELY high.... Really really high, and they are not wild animals either. Some people in China though, just assume that, if you use high heat to kill bacterias, then all is well... I presume. This is whereby... you need a super strong cooking method in order to make something. My mom never really roasted things. Pork is always cooked in soups... And often also marinaded with salt (to kill further bacterias, then drained away from the salt).... When cooking, she used to boil for ages, til the meat breaks down. And the nutrient goes into the stock etc. When I was a child, we had those big mega big wok.... The kind that, I think it had around a whopping 4-5 kilo wattage... Which definitely breaks down an animal. She also used to double-steam things as well... A porcelain pot inside a cooking pot. So this style of cooking, kind of mellows out the flavours, whatever you decide to cook in it.
The Romans did not used to be scared of pig's either. They used to roast the entire thing on a rotary.... lol. Especially the wild pork. It is odd that... things have changed so... over the last 40 odd years. I never knew that people didn't know... like, things.
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@chazbaz4519 : You actually have a sack of potatoes in your home ? Lol.....
I also have some rice in my food cupboard, but mostly, I also don't buy a large portion. Am weaning off carbs right now these days... Having watched these youtube version of uncle rogers... Hm.. I feel like I am trapped in the middle of some kind of social media war here....
I love thai rice, and I also love Japanese rice. They are actually very very different. And thai rice, if it was just harvested, you can smell a glorious smell from the grain. But I also use an extremely sophisticated rice cooker too... And this is no ordinary rice cooker... It will indeed break the rice a lot better, than an actual boil and drain. It softens the rice a lot as well, and creates that "fluffy" rice. There is something also called "sticky rice", they are a different breed of rice, which in SE Asian cuisine, you use it differently...
(The sad thing now in the UK is that, very good and reputable brands, have started to use American rice.. American rice, are not the same as Italian risotto rice as well... All of these rice grains, are or could be classified as "rice", but in reality, some of these "rice", is actually should be called a grain. And not a rice. in the UK, some companies have started to sell fake rice, when really, they are selling the grains... which is protein, and not carb.) Ever since those horse burgers fake food issue.. a lot of people, might have transferred brand names.. and used different suppliers.. but in reality, they cannot distinguish one rice, from another grain. Thank God we have the food and safety standards here. You can prosecute somebody for selling you fake things.. i.e. Labelling a bag as "rice", when really, it is a bag of "grain"....
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Back in the days when people did not have fridges, and it isn't really that long ago ? But the chinese.. well, we just saved them. Like my mother would used to save the extra rice and just cover it. And then keep it in the kitchen, but then she would really either use it for congees, or whatever the next day. And this was still only in the 1980s... Not that long ago. Or what my mother would do, as a cooking technique was to use that good old traditional method of "double steam".. Meaning using those old porcelain pots, inside an actual wok as a steamer, and then steam for like a good 3-4 hours, at the very least in high wattage... (big fire, with lots of logs)... That should really "kill it".. and even if it does not kill it, in terms of those molecules, it would've broken it up sooo much that it does not harm you. And then your body does its thing which is to pass it through the body. But yeh... for those people who DOESN'T live life in that traditional way... Well, the chances of you getting sick can be so much higher. Which is possibly why those kind of webpages and health pages will exist to say things like "cannot eat precooked rice" or "used rice"... I wouldn't necessarily use cooked rice for fried rice, unless you have a super high 1.5-2kW cooker ring. traditional cooker ring is at around a mega whopping.... 3-4 kW... Which gives you that "wok hei". But being smart is far more important... just be sensible.
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@anyascelticcreations : He has not told you that, even babies inside China do eat cooked food, but their hot woks or hot cookers are literally around a minimum 1.5 kilo watts, up to around 6 kilo watts. So yeh.. when we say "left overnight and THEN recooked", they are literally recooked til it is broken to pieces. But domestic cookers in the UK, are only set to around a mere 1.5 kilo watts. Or at most, food here in the UK are pre-cooked first, and then reheated at home. That is why you won't have an issue this way. The other issue that we have in the UK, would be a nutrient or an allergy thing. Whereas in the US, I guess that, people do not have those kind of commercial level equipments to make it at home? Although, yes, more and more better equipments now exist in replacements.. but still.... Even if in the UK, if you DO cook something, most people WOULD indeed use a kind of chemical method to pre-marinade (to both kill germs as well as to sterilise any bacterias)... Well... if I was making chinese food, I do this too. So does most cooks that were taught back in the days in HK. When fridges and freezers didn't quite existed. To tenderise a piece of meat with potato starches was also a thing too. Even before cooking. But of course you would wash out this as well. The funny thing which happens these days is that people DON'T wash these dam starches out ? Now... this is the ultimate difference between the previous generation of cooks and chefs, to THIS generation of chefs and cooks !!!!
To die from food illnesses is a lot HIGHER in this generation in my honest opinion....
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@nguyenvanduy247 : They should NOT use Borax in the food production processes for those noodles. I think you will find that some countries would have banned that. I don't know why SE Asian countries do not curb their usages of these kind of food production methods. Cos it would have been banned in Europe ! At the same time, I am super weary too of these kind of video blogs, like Adam's who is a mere "journalists", or "food writer", but often, they do not necessarily have made that recipe before publishing them, or tried and tested both on themselves, or on someone else, before publications. And this is also a danger as well. If I wound back the clock even just say 10 years ago... I would trust most online recipes. But these days with the increasing social media exposures.. I am not so confident any more. So many people misuse specific ingredients, and volumes? There is a gap of biases and room for errors here.... that is a bit too dangerous ? It is always often just stick with tried and tested recipe which is time-trialled and passed down from generation, which is a LOT better.
Even in your MSG example.. not all factories are configured to make the product the same way... I was reading an article about soya milk from the USA too. Similar thing, and all it was, is a simple step which differed to the SE Asian process, and therefore, this affects one's fertilities/periods. I stopped buying from the American branded soya milk. I check where they are manufactured first...
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Harris.. UK did not used to have everybody going to "restaurant". Most working class people, only ate in a factory's canteen. And then you have the elites, who have their own houses, and then they have their own personal larder, and kitchens ? That was how things were in the UK. This is whereby the difference between "working class" compared to "upper class" existed. Then, there are the "Lords and Ladies" of the land, that could actually have cottages and farmers who attend to the land. Those small families would often have a cottage industry, and they would indeed run a small kitchen. The typical small "cafe" came around from this... that country cafe. And the "pubs", were also a thing when people started to move around... and they were basically a stopover when people travelled between cities. You can see the same in HK as "tea houses"... as compared to the typical Imperial Palace style dining, and banquets. The entire "Western Michelin Star opulent dining" model which is found in HK... only came around, because of the trading ports and things, and then people saw HK as a leisure city and port. That is why they increased... It is similar if you travelled into Europe, you will find those old style hotels, with opulent dining restaurants and things. That has not changed. But the modern fast food chain, or chained-restaurants, this is a merely modern concept. Or concept restaurants, this is all new.... and of course, people also started to live in cities, and become urbanisation, that different to living off in farmland or rural land, and this changed everything in how we see food. The prices varies depends on the export and import and taxation. Food is often expensive in Western countries because of economics, pricings, and regulations, and logistic costs. That is why. Whereas in SE Asia, we don't literally add a lot of prices on top, because we discount them.
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The reason why you would see the high prices in London is because the Queen does collect taxes as well. And then landlords often will rise in prices as the operational cost of that building increases. So for example, the major increase in price right now, is energy costs. There is a war in Russia.. and many businesses are impacted by the rise in fuel prices. This is going to add to your cost of food prices. Hence, why the likes of Deliveroos now currently exists, for a short while. Hopefully. Whereas in HK... there is oil, and there is gas, but there is also nuclear plant over the border into Canton and Shenzen area which stabilises prices as well. Hence, many businesses can indeed have a chance to make a profit. This is the ultimate different really. It is also not uncommon for an establishment to actually buy a piece of land and to hold the price. The ethos behind them is not to operate a profitable food business, but they are a holding place for the rise in the property price. This is another discussion... But to eat good food in the UK, always find those little "homely places that everybody knows", and you need to ask around, there would always be one, cos either they have paid off the building, or the mortgage, or that they are in some kind of cooperatives that can allow them to run a decent kitchen. Now, seek those places out. That is my advice. In London, I would indeed recommend places like Japan Centres... those "warehouses turned small kitchen/cafe".. their costs often run to become around say a reasonable 10 pound per meal. There used to be a good 9 pound meal in Chinatown too, but my guess is that, this is not kind of gone... Most would get a "meat brioche bun" from a chinese bakery. < 3 pound. You will notice that many people will actually spend no more than 5 pound for lunch. I definitely recommend a sushi box. Unless you know those hidden alley ways, into local pubs, that also do decent lunches... Again, you need to know people who knows people etc.
Oh, people do not dine alone in the UK. This is also not a done thing either.. I know... this is a cultural thing too. This is why those fast rice places are still common and popular in Chinatown. It really is not. And dining is often a 3 course meal thing as well... If I was to work in London again, I would definitely take my own lunch box again. People also tend to steal your sandwiches too in a typical office ! Not funny... but.. I was so mad. Sigh. The world has lost it. I see food as something reachable in my most basic low earnings... but most people do not see it this way. I don't know why. Maybe cos we can see an entire chicken and formulate the different meal plans, whereas most people refuses to even contemplate this notion !
Oh, also, in the UK, people even as office workers, tend to go to the local supermarket and then buy a microwaveable meal and then microwave it at work... That costs around like a 3-4 range.. Not the best ideal.. but... You can see why the UK is an extremely overprocessed place, can't you ?
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@RePhantomz : Most people do not dine out, is because, you probably also be working for a corporation too. And bad-mouthing your employer, outside of the office, or indeed bad-mouthing them, so that your customers, or your clients could hear. Well... this is bringing down your employer into disrepute isn't it ? And with the increasing usages of "online media", this is getting worst !!!! This is why, most people cook at home, and then you go to work. And most of the time, work or dining is mostly corporate entertainments as well. i.e. People let their hair down, and to socialise and to NETWORK (for WORK PURPOSES. NOT FOR PERSONAL RELATIONSHIP AND ONE NIGHT STANDS !!!!)... If people do not get what is going on, and why... then they should not be allowed to go out of the house or something.
Adam here has access to global "private AND corporate communication". Now... which road will he take, and what will he edit, or not edit ? What he spoke of, does not even reflect that of the UK... And he certainly has not done his homework, with regards to the fishing supply which was cut off in the UK due to joining the EU too.... He COULDN'T even get THAT BIT RIGHT ! So it's an ultimate edited form of a lie, isn't it? Cos he basically does not know.
People follow the laws here in the UK, or as much as they could. Same as Japan as well, cos many things are structured. Just because outsiders in SE Asian countries do NOT know. Does not CARE to follow their own countries' laws. Does not mean that others won't, and shouldn't, and can't. Cos they should, and did, and will do so.
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@RePhantomz : You don't even understand the context of that what we are talking about, do you ? When in work, work. When in personal time. Be in personal time. When dining out. Dine as a group. Dine at a networking event. Socialise. Most people eat together with their families, at home. This is my point. So this "singleton dining out thing" is not a done thing in the UK ? Or in Europe ? Most people either dine in their company's canteen, or that they grab something from the supermarket and heat it in their office's canteen, or get a salad and eat outdoor, in a park. THAT is the ultimate culture here.
Oh, Adam forgotten something as well.. which I know he doesn't know... In HK...(well, post 97 50 years now, it will happen this way any way. We knew it. We got it. It will do.) WELL... Many people usually dine together AS a mega big group, is because of polygamy. You tend to dine as a group, when you are related to those people as well. Back in those days, whereby a lot of families are often recruited or worked in the exact same company... Then.. they do have this mega "big group event" to "dine out" together. It is very rare not to do so... and it is super rare if you did so, even when you are not related. And then somebody ordered like a big mega thing, which they want to force you to eat, but you don't want to eat it, cos it is so expensive, and it p!sses you off. Back in those days... HK was like that as well. This is how to tell... who is trying to con you out of a meal. That was totally a thing in corporate life as well. Some managers will take a personal hit. Others will put it to the company's expenses... Some will end up being fired, basically. So yeh... story of HK. Those days why their stock market fluctuated a lot, and those "oligarchs" literally... killed the economy. The end. Li Ka Shing never made his money in and from HK's actual population.. His money was made overseas... Of course, many people don't know that. Don't care either. And this is why in Vietnam.. you now have this weird.. upsidedown thing.
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@wirewyrm01 : In the UK, and in Europe... there are "food" and resources... but the government do not let you, or allow you to farm or to take those things. It is illegal... Well.. most lands are literally landowners, and it is owned by somebody. So therefore, you cannot just go to a farm... and pick somebody's crop. Despite... even those some of the people WERE the descendents of those landowners, THEY... still cannot just grab that crop. Of course, this is now different.. cos people can walk in a "public" place.. and fields. This was a change in the actual government though... Cos we split the government from the citizens... This kind of change, is how come, even if you are not British, you could travel into the UK. Don't assume that this isn't a priviledge in any way.... Similar thing exists in HK as well... but the thing is.. nobody is protecting the landowners any more. Even Japan would not do this. And nor would South Korea.. i.e. If those are the land owners, then they ARE the landowners. You just DON'T dispute THIS !!!! For them, they integrated those landowners into their political structure... So yes... There is something inherently wrong.. in how people perceive things today. The USA is basically quite a new country... in comparison to the rest of Europe. In Europe, everything is "paid" for... You have to pay your way. In China.. it should NOT be a USA !!!! The way that the PRC is forcing the country to be... and forcing USA to accept that, there is only "one china"... Is absolutely ridiculous !!! There IS no One China...!!!! It is made up of many countries !!!!...... How can 1.2 BILLION be a "SINGLE COUNTRY" !!!!
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@S Fr : Fake rice are.... (And they literally do this, in order to make the weight a lot heavier, in order to sell, and earn the money, They do this, just purely for businesses....and not to hope to feed you or be honest?).... These are like 2nd, 3rd or 4th seller already... And they want to make money from their stock, so they "add a little bit extra" in order to recooperate their costs.
This is one example. I have heard of bad stories, and rumours and things, but I have never seen the video until now? This one was captured from someone's handset...
I used to find it annoying as well, whenever people tell me lies... or what I thought was lies. Well... I now take everything with a pinch of salt. I acknowledge it.
youtube com/ watch?v=_JgedoGXyQk&t=173s
So "fake" in this instance is...1) used oil, from the sewage system, 2) the sewage had pesticides and building debris flushed into them... So this is why, I think I read somewhere that those "x peppercorn" was banned in the USA. So USA banned Sich__n cuisine basically. Cos they must have caught this a while back...
www dot youtube dot com/ watch?v=2furktgOT_I
If you watch the whole thing, then you will see the actual part whereby people literally put in fake goods... like, substitute them. Dilute them. Or add something else.
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Some people refer "fake rice" as.... the brand, does not reflect exactly what is written on the labels ? Meaning say..."Made in the USA", but actually it is made in Vietnam, say. It HAS to show where it is made, and where it is grown from. This is the tough food regulation that European countries had to show.... and forces these kind of non-global compliant independent companies to be regulated, and stick to a global standard. Once upon a time, can you imagine that this was what happened ? I cannot imagine that this is so widely an issue... That is so bad. Yes, changing suppliers can happen. Then create a new company, or ask for bank loans to keep yourself afloat, or to merge with another company, or whatever ? For me, I normally say ... it is "fake rice"... Meaning that the brand was licensed across a few global suppliers.. and this is also not made known by the actual company.
In HK... "fake rice".. can mean that.. some did not reach a global standard for export.. and then, they use it locally. Farmer > Export Licensee > Buyer abroad
e.g. Like you say... they may not wash them first before packaging them, for example. Whereas rice from Australia, is washed first to get rid of anything.. before exporting. (There's a youtube video somewhere, I was watching it with surprise...) But this is a good thing. But the Australian case is, they are the rice farm owner, and it is the farm selling the export. And not the cases of those individual sellers... who is a single shopper, buy something, and want to make pocket change. This is not a done thing in US or the EU ? If you sell to customers, then you need to be registered as a business to begin with ? And it is taxed as well ? And you are regulated. Meaning, has to be licensed before selling ?
[FYI... In the UK... if your product, or the bag of rice, shows that... the label is not representing the food items. Say... a "beef burger"... but it had horse meat. In this example, the seller... can go to jail. It is a prosecutable offence. I wonder.. if these sellers know that, they can go to jail abroad when they decide to create these kind of "fake rice" ??? ] This is why those companies like Amazon, blocks them. Cos if this go through... yes, the individual in the end sale, can sue you.. and let their government know.
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@iguana6746 : In SE Asia, this is a proper dish, and a proper main. Some people call it "rice porridge", others may call it "congee". (I don't even know where this term came from. It could be a semi-half tried attempt as ping yum/romanisation from Fuijian, or Malay, or whatever.) It is basically boiling rice, with a lot of water, so it is watery, but still quite sticky. I think this is called "Gruel" in the US. This is definitely a proper dish ! What people in Southern China do, where they have the rice paddy fields are... is to use these kind of thing, with either fish stock, or pork stock, with it. And they make it a complete meal. Then you sprinkle things like... crispy onions, or chopped spring onions... alkaline preserved egg... Oh, it is so nice. It is basically a stock with... some carbs and veg, and flavourings. A very light meal, but filling, never the less. Tasty.
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@abyssstrider2547 : Presumably you live in Europe then. Well.. depends on which city you reside. Shop around for your food. Because... where I am in the UK, we can get both the English supermarkets.. as well as the Asian supermarkets, and Indian supermarkets etc. They all do operate with different suppliers. The thing is to find one that YOU are happy with, and stick to that one? I do know that, in Europe now.. there are some SE Asian ones.. which had been overtaken by some listed companies, they bought them out... and then maybe something fell over somewhere, because... Well, they have been changed to a DIFFERENT supplier now. Some of the Chinese names, or SE Asian names... now contains literally "rice grown in Italy".. Even though say the name was from HK, or from Thailand, and it was literally "grown in Thailand rice, brand". This is no longer the case ?
SO... be a savvy shopper in Europe.. go to a chinese supermarket, and CHECK all labels.. and ask the cashiers, which one they buy, and WHY they buy this one. And ask them the direct and blunt question "is this rice, grown in the SE Asian areas, or have they changed suppliers behind them?".... I think you will find that they changed suppliers' ... This is the fault of our government in not letting people know when trade has changed etc. And some shipping routes are no longer applicable etc ? I normally buy rice that do not cost me more than say around 4 GBP per kilo... I know that some Japanese rice are pricy, but then they come directly from Japan. Some rice, or most people buy from Vietnam, or Thailand etc. Or some of the US rice, literally mortgage their assets to get a business loan, in order to fetch me those 4 pound mark. Cos otherwise, they will compete themselves out of the market... These are wholesale prices... If consumers, it should indeed go up a little bit as well... But some people, or businesses will rather take the hit, especially if it is a main staple.
Because many countries, do see rice as a commodity ? Some would literally raise it higher, for you.. depends on which country you are at. and they add on top of the shipping and currency fluctuations etc. Some people inside China, used to get a bond.. before they would supply to you.... I do not really think that the video-makers literally know, why people feel so precious about "rice". In Imperial times.. not everybody is allowed to eat rice for one. And NOT everybody could get rice. Or buy rice. It is usually harvested in the Southern part of the country, and some were imperial lands... and it was not that long time ago that this happened? Second world war saw through the capitalistic globe.. But bare in mind... many still see it as a precious thing. WW2 was around 1940s....
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@kiliang96 : That's really lucky for you guys in Spain.... cos you also have the larger farms too, and is an agricultural country. Whereas everything has been lost here in the UK in general. We have an mega BIG manufacturing sector.. and because of this, even basic "farm to table" no longer exists. And there are so many chains here in the UK. And those chains are not necessarily good either. You can be paying around like a mega whopping 20-30 pounds, for like a burnt dried up burger. This is not a joke, and people still have to be polite, and thank the chef to do this. This is because UK is still linked to that capitalistic relationship with the USA as well. This is why it is so sh!tty here in the UK.... People now rather go to a "food bank", than to actually eat fresh. And there is also a monopoly as well online. Meaning, social media/marketing companies have played that currency fluctuation play... this is why Adam's channel here is masking you the truths and is basically lying.... Frankly. Cos they take an actual cut of that profit ? So now we have a whopping... Farm > MARKETING COMPANY > Restaurant > Customer. That ratio is beginning to hit around : 30% : 40-50% : 20 % !!!!! In this lockdown, a lot of families turned to tinned food items. And somebody has created these independent "small supermarkets" without proper licensings... and are selling them as a charity basis, with some kind of club membership as well. THIS kind of model was NOT heard of in the 1980s !!!! THIS is bureacracy at play ! It is the regulation that is stopping people from being alive, and is basically are actually..... being fed. This is why so many people are SO angry here right now. Even I am too. During the lockdown, some people also flipped food as well. Meaning, they make up these small supply-chain position, and squeezed themselves to become an actual chain in the process when they are not even licensed to be so.
I don't even know why Adam can dare to speak and answer with those answers that he did.... Absolutely diabolical ! Some people also hoarded food as well during lockdown. Supermarkets had to actually control. And to stop people from wiping an entire shelf for resell purposes during the first lockdown... And then you could see them resurfaced on the likes of Deliveroo ? I was so shocked. Cos they are illegal to be sold on such apps. And those apps have no license to operate as a supermarket ?
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I am not surprised that the youtuber was really angered by the TikTok viewers... Cos, yes, the "arsenic" really is just exists inside the rice, only if you do not cook it thoroughly as well. Test, and do another experiment, between "before cooking", to "after cooking"... And before you also say that it can be a high level thing for people, remember that... rice in China.. is literally "grown in water"... They are grown in paddy fields. So those rice grown inside China, literally uses the water to help them grow. So their arsenic contents must have been a lot lower any way ? And I have bought rice from the USA...(and it is weird that those grains are actually grown in the USA... because the US and the Australian rice, are grown in dried land, and not as much water as in China or in SE Asia....).... I have bought a shop bag of rice here in the United Kingdom.. It was classified as "korean rice".. From the USA... however, when I did cook it, it was so tough and hard ? Some of those grains are actually not rice, I don't think. Some of those are literally grains. This is whereby... if it is that kind of rice. What you need to do, is really to soak your rice overnight, or at the very least, buy a pressure cooker. Cook it first time, and then drain it, before recooking it, to soften it up. The rice which we get in the UK, some of those sealed in a tub, is literally "parcooked"... Meaning, partially cooked. Not fully cooked, and this is why they are a lot fluffier.... I have had rissotto before, that was literally uncooked. Cos when I bite into the actual middle of the rice, it was actually uncooked. I never went back to that establishment again... Cos I don't trust the chef. But then again, I know that chef wasn't Italian... but was English... so..... Just something to be super mindful of. It is also super rare to find actual good Italian chefs that can cook, and do cook in the UK too.
Saying that, I live in the UK, and am of British Hong Kong descent... so... I do have a Japanese rice cooker, as well as the fact that I don't cook as much rice as I did when I was younger. I do eat more bread, than anything. These days, I try to eat rice porridge a lot more. Used to gorge on pastas when I was a student. Cos it is so cheap.. and tasty. Also, jacket potatoes are my go to as a kid too. But if I shop, I do tend to buy linguine... than spaghettis. Tagliatelle is also my favourite too. Anything Marks and Sparks sells.. my mother is onto them like a hawk. :)
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@skirata3144 : The only thing that I can think of, when that lady stated that she leave the rice out and overnight, could be because she is from India. In India, the temperature is SO high ! Therefore, if she left the food out in the heat, it actually does dry it up ? Bacterias can only grow in certain conditions, and not otherwise. This explains why she keeps it out. Also, if you put the rice in a fridge, in India.. unless the fridge is that kind of air con/freezer type fridge, which extracts water as well to keep things cool. The other type, may just break down under the heat, because of how they function. Since heat can affect some electronics too. This is why... by putting hot food in a fridge say in India.. is going to cause that inside cold temperature to drop, and therefore creates more water droplets.. and then they will fall onto the rice, and cause it to ferment over time. This is why she would leave it outside inside of leaving in a fridge. But the opposite is true when you live in a colder climate region say in the UK or in Europe. I don't know about the US. It depends on which state you reside in. If rice has gone bad... it normally tastes sourish.. like it has started to ferment. Otherwise, it should not have any smell, and it should not have any sourish tastes.
On the note about the children.. I think that they could have been food poisoned could also be due to the milk content in their rice pudding as well. I do think that since they are only 2 to 6.. They should not have weird things like lactose.. Children from 2 to 6 are not able to tolerate many food items that we could as an adult. Whatever they have, it must be diluted down to their version, for their stomach. This is a must !!! Most kids should have super watery things any way... Cos they have not yet built up their full stomach acid level either to kill off any potential germs or otherwise. Also, they need to have kept a strict hand washing process too... in order to keep things healthy... So many things to look out for when it is a kid's meal. Also, pureeing things is also far more important too. If I was to make that rice pudding, I rather create a mild congee, and then use milk instead of cream.
Anyway, in the UK's government's website, there is a section on food preparation, and most people have to abide by that. So... do leave rice to dry, but do put them inside the fridge overnight. And also, if reheating rice, do think about using it for congee, rather than for fried rice, say. And with many people, they also do a "first wash" thing as well when it comes to cooking.. So you can often see on YT, Japanese noodle makers draining and doing a first wash too. IF there are bacterias, then what are they washing away ? Same with pork. People if they use pork for a soup, I certainly would do a first wash and drain step. Same can be done for the congees too. I normally leave things to boil, then you tend to see some scummy parts floating to the top. I normally skim those away as well. Or drain away that first batch and then add my own broth in it.
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A lot of kids are raised with congee in SE Asia.. so how do they survived then if there is an overcooked rice situation ? Well.. a lot of the old rice are often cooked for congee any way. And yet, they also drain that first soup and broth as said... The same with my mom, and my granma, they used to leave meat outside, when we did not have a fridge back then. But they do the smart thing, which was possibly passed down from their generation, which is to salt the meat. So the meat's alkalinity kills off the bacterias? This is how you preserve the meat. So when you cook it the next day, you would always do a short pre-blanche, even before using it for something else. Just to get rid of the salt overall. It is funny how these kind of steps aren't used or revered or noted any more... Yeh, we have a lot of over manufactured food items in general though. These kind of simple steps should not be overlooked. Bring back Delia Smith !!! Oh, also, with a lot of chinese cuisine, you also have to make it mushy or puree things, cos we don't tend to eat too stuff meats or things. This is why we would chop things up, easier for digestion. Even with a lot of meat, we tend to mince it instead. Mince pork with pickled cabbage, my childhood favourite.
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@violetviolet888 : Do you realise how discriminatory and arrogant that Adam sounds ? I rest my case. I have explained why many SE Asians do not get sick in Asia. And yet, many diarrheas happen in Europe and in the USA. And the way that he described the "danger zone", why don't he remove the emotions behind that and really put his professional hat on first and foremost? Which is that, if you are a food manufacturer, restaurant or take away, then you need to focus on how you cool food down, and how you treat it. This is a regulated thing. What you do, in your own time, and how you consume food is nobody's business, but if you are a licensed food premises, then you DO need to follow such orders, and such regulations as well.... I fear that Adam is VERY misleading in what he is saying... and he is implying with a lot of misconceptions actually ! Especially about the part about the food price issue in Europe and in the USA !!! What he does not know is that, many people in China, and in SE Asia, they own their farm lands, and therefore it is FREE farmed food items. And that is why they do not have an extremely costing farmed food price ! And a lot of people also do not charge people for a high price when it comes to those fruit or veg prices as well... in some countries, it is illegal to charge them actually. USA is based on an economic capitalistic country, and this is the ultimate difference really. I am extremely appalled at his lack of ethic in the sector in how he structured his vlog !
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@_Gecko : You will die of starvation if you had Five Guys here... and without access to other food stores. Adam is from the USA... what he has not told the questioner is that, in Europe at least, there are trades that stop farmers from actually farming ? This was done, so that the different countries within Europe agreed to hold their currencies, and split the work between everybody when it comes to production so that it meets an actual curve that fits the supply and demand model. Of course, when the fishing was banned first in the UK... and then those fishes were poached by other European countries. You just know know that, those fishermen will flip ! The same is also happening now.. We brexited, so that we should own back those fishing rights, and regions... and this is now being stopped as well... by somebody. Before the creation of the common single market... Things, I mean people, did not starve and be treated like dirt, like they do now today. (And all of this so called fights and trade deals with China.. that is just... Absolutely non-existent. They don't even control their own internal food market either.) When I see a child today, looking so gaunt.. more than I was, when I was a child. I am quite upset, in all honesty. I had no idea that we have fallen so much from grace as a country. And this p!sses me off no end.
What Adam has also not said explicitly is that.... the direction of the Western world is going, is definitely going to be reliant on robo-humans, and genetically modified food... Soon, we shall live off drips. And that is a promise. When the farm is just down the road.. and I am seeing, and using social media for marketing which adds on top of this an extra 40%.... to someone's bills.. Do you, or do you think this is right? This is not right. If things happen this way, soon, the shop shall move to the farm. The restaurant shall move to the farm too. The end of all of those inbetween suppliers... Why some places are more pricy than others? That is because of lack of planned logistics. I have seen one lady who dared to charge a packet of biscuit to be like 2 pound. When there is like a Tesco down the road which sells it around 80p ? This_Is_crazy.
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@Detailed InfoDisplay : There is an awful lot that these "SE Asians" or just "Asians" are not telling you. Like, the fact that they don't do their accounting when they run a business. They put that money, as their personal money, rather than as their corporation and taxes? It is like that in the entire Asian countries? Once upon a time, it was NOT like that. The financial crashes in SE Asia basically killed their economies... and then what happened was that, the people fled. This is why you do not find the same thing happening today. "You buy, I survive". What do you think that Asia and China, now have an actual P2P sector? Who does this kind of banking? Nobody. And this is why most families, most men, are arrogant, and have reverted back to those olden day's thing. Which is to have 1st wife, 2nd wife, and 3rd wife... An entire concubine system in place. THAT is what is going on inside China. The USA calls it human trafficking... Europe calls it prostitution...but inside Imperial China... polygamy seems to be acceptable. And after those financial crashes. This is also occurring now too in the Philippines, and (also, unfortunately) HK too... and inside the mainland China as well. Most people in the US, and in the EU, would not dare do this.
That "communal dining" came from "family dining together as a single unit". THAT is why it is still happening. The chances of these people relating to one another is still there ? Just that, with modernism... this is eroded, and destroyed. The TV medias in Europe and the US, SHOULD make TV series about "communal polygamy family life"... and see how people react to that. It will shock them, but also actually wake them up !
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