Shanghaiist: Xiaolongxia! Xiaolongxia!

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Fri, 30 Jun 2006 00:39:03 +0800

Is there a restaurant in Shanghai that serves Cajun-style crayfish, Gumbo, Jambalaya?

Peterpaul

Thu, 29 Jun 2006 21:17:57 +0800

It would be wise to avoid eating too much of the tasty little buggers. Much of the muck ponds these things are raised in are full of heavy metals from industry and pesticides from farm runoff, not to mention trash. While I doubt one -properly prepared and cooked- dose would do you wrong regular eating over an extended period is bound to cause trouble. For that matter, regularly eating most produce grown in China is likely to cause trouble over time...

fishee

Thu, 29 Jun 2006 14:56:15 +0800

unhealthy food! and only getting even much more unhealthy every year! I'm glad I had enough of xiaolongxia last year, so, I'm quiting.

Micah

Thu, 29 Jun 2006 12:55:20 +0800

It was sarcasm.

Zat Liu

Thu, 29 Jun 2006 11:07:40 +0800

"No wonder millions of people in Shanghai alone have diarrhea and hepatitis." Errrr, let me guess, this comes from Micah tabloid?

CJ

Thu, 29 Jun 2006 00:14:49 +0800

Just don't eat the "straight" crawfish because they were dead before they were cooked. The "curled" ones were alive when they are cooked. All in all... tasty stuff. CJ

Yijia

Wed, 28 Jun 2006 23:04:24 +0800

You can always get hepatitis vaccine. Shanghai had a pretty bad case of hepatitis A outbreak in 1988 largely due to 毛蚶. I am certain that vaccines are readily available.

Micah

Wed, 28 Jun 2006 22:28:50 +0800

No wonder millions of people in Shanghai alone have diarrhea and hepatitis.

Zat Liu

Wed, 28 Jun 2006 19:14:19 +0800

Thanks for your kind reminder, tian, but it's year 2006. Also, I don't trust 100% of so called scientific reports by state owned media, most of them only exaggerated the danger rather than focus on simple facts. Like a while ago, a girl was diagnosised to have toxoplasmosis in her brain, the doctor claimed it's because the girl was bitten by her cat three years ago. Story was wildly reported in major state owned media like cctv, http://www.cctv.com/program/rysh/20060324/100688.shtml which made thousands of domestic cats homeless in Qingdao. Utterly stupid and the reason why that girl had toxoplasmosis is because of her cat was very likely untrue and lack of scientific proof. In many other reports it also says it's safe to eat well-cooked xiaolongxia.

tian

Wed, 28 Jun 2006 18:00:53 +0800

Here is a story from Shanghai Star in 2001 and quoted Liu Hong, director of food hygiene and safety at Shanghai Municipal Centre for Disease Control and Prevention: "Shellfish are easily contaminated by viruses and pollution, and if not properly cooked will lead to diarrhea or even hepatitis. The most dangerous aquatic food is crayfish, a kind of small shrimp that looks like lobster. In many restaurants, spicy crayfish is a popular dish. 'But if you see the water where they live, you wouldn't dare eat it,' Liu said. Crayfish prefer to live in dirty water - the dirtier the better. Before they are delivered to the dining table, most live happily in heavily polluted rivers. " more

tian

Wed, 28 Jun 2006 17:48:19 +0800

Unclean crawfish often carry hepatitis A. There were several breakouts in China during late 1980's.