Dìgōu yóu or 餿水油.
Gutter oil japan.
20 people got arrested who produced gutter oil for 10 years in taipei.
Sōushuǐ yóu is a general term for oil that has been recycled it can be used to describe the practice of restaurants re using cooking oil that has already been fried before.
Not just inferior cooking oil relabelled as well regarded brands but made from waste oil and rotting animal parts.
All the answers have been accurate but even if you ve been eating gutter oil you have it s not necessarily that which is giving you diarrhea it could cross contamination of meat and vegetables unclean meat and vegetables unsanitary utensils or even more likely all of the above plus more.
According to wikipedia as the name implies gutter oil is some liquid substance extracted from the sewers and are used as substitute to commercial grade cooking oil which is typically far more expensive.
Most of china s gutter oil winds up in cheap restaurants and among street food vendors.
30 years later the situation still has not changed.
What exactly is gutter oil.
Chinafood chinacoronavirus coronavirus coronaviruschina wuhan exoticfood gutteroilchina it s one of china s major food scandals used cooking oil is being taken straight from the gutter.
Yes gutter oil 地沟油 dìgōu yóu pretty much really comes from gutters well sewer drains grease traps slaughterhouse waste depots disposed of meat animal fat skins innards and restaurant oil dumps.
In 1985 there were the first news that the police did something against it.
Japan shipped its used oil to taiwan.
This is generally known as gutter oil chinese pinyin dìgōu yóu simplified characters 地沟油 traditional characters 地溝油.
History gutter oil exists in taiwan since the 1960ies.
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Once collected this slop is then filtered mixed together cooked up and then sold to unscrupulous restaurants around china.