Tokyo Knew Chinese Gyoza Were Bad Three Weeks Ago

[Iraira]

He said it was his gf, so I guess it's a sure thing. He got laid.

Thanks for the vote of confidence. Round two comes up tonight after kim chee nabe (I'm sure some of the veggies were grown in China, so maybe hakusai and the fungi have also been treated with extra pesticides other than DDT of which I have no fear).
On a side note: as Jack has stated his intentions on moving to Japan in the future, he should know that assuming anything here is the surest way to get screwed (not the fun way) or to go home with blue balls.

[GomiGirl]

Just ate some of the gyoza in my fridge for dinner. If you don't hear from me for awhile, you'll know why

We went to a noodle place for dinner and had mixed gyoza. Four hours and still no dramas. However, if I don't post for a few days, send out a search party.

[ttjereth]

We went to a noodle place for dinner and had mixed gyoza. Four hours and still no dramas. However, if I don't post for a few days, send out a search party.

Still kicking here too. The gyoza weren't very good though. Not exactly a conspiracy, but ah well.

[Jack]

Thanks for the vote of confidence. Round two comes up tonight after kim chee nabe (I'm sure some of the veggies were grown in China, so maybe hakusai and the fungi have also been treated with extra pesticides other than DDT of which I have no fear).
On a side note: as Jack has stated his intentions on moving to Japan in the future, he should know that assuming anything here is the surest way to get screwed (not the fun way) or to go home with blue balls.

So what happened in round two?

I have seen many people get screwed so I have the benefit of hidnsight. My project is very well researched and planned but most importantly, it is intentionally very well capitalized. If we succeed, our return on capital will be low because of the large capitalization but as we get experience we can redeploy that capital and grow the business. Basicall we will take a return on investment penalty for the first two years to make sure we don't fail.

Once I move to Japan, I am never returning to Canada again. If my balls get blue, then I'll have to nurse them in Japan.

[GomiGirl]

Still kicking here too. The gyoza weren't very good though. Not exactly a conspiracy, but ah well.

The Gyoza we had last night was sensational. Some of the best I have eaten. We had a mix of steamed and fried with different fillings.

I don't eat the frozen stuff from the supermarket - nasty - but from a nice chinese place the gyoza are great.

[Oradea]

I rarely buy any of those frozen okazu packs, just like at home, they look seriously unhealthy. I guess they are convenient though, but i have enough time to cook!

[Takechanpoo]

The Gyoza we had last night was sensational. Some of the best I have eaten. We had a mix of steamed and fried with different fillings.

Needless to say, that gyoza was made by Japanese or Japanized Chinese.
So you can eat it without anxiety.

[Iraira]

So what happened in round two?

The hakusai and other veggies began to boil around 8:30 pm. A few hot red drops of kim chee drenched liquid spurted forth from the nabe pot, landing on the table. The heat gently rose up into the air, dissipating throughout the room. With a long, hard, wooden pair of hashi, raw sliced pig was softly layered ontop of the growing cauldron of turbidly boiling pleasure.

Also added a bunch of chicken, including chicken legs and tofu to the mess....sorry, but I just learned that it does take some skill and a thesaurus to write Penthouse Forum slop, at least when trying to do it in a kim chee nabe vein.

[ttjereth]

The Gyoza we had last night was sensational. Some of the best I have eaten. We had a mix of steamed and fried with different fillings.

I don't eat the frozen stuff from the supermarket - nasty - but from a nice chinese place the gyoza are great.

I dated a Taiwanese girl in university who used to make home made boiled pork gyoza that were the best I've ever eaten. Oddly enough, she couldn't cook ANYTHING else. This is not an exaggeration, she could make great gyoza and everything else she made not even she would eat.

I don't go out of the way to buy the frozen stuff, but my father in law sometimes goes shopping "for us", where he just decides to buy a bunch of random stuff at the supermarket and drops it off at our house on the way home. It's almost never stuff we would ever buy ourselves, and while technically it wasn't bought with my money, I hate throwing food away so I end up eating whatever he buys for a lot of my meals.

Sometimes throwing away stuff is unavoidable though. Recently had to toss two pineapples because he bought us a whole pineapple a week for three weeks straight, there's only two of us, and my wife doesn't like pineapple

[Midwinter]

Needless to say, that gyoza was made by Japanese or Japanized Chinese.
So you can eat it without anxiety.

Just like your koroke, ne?

[Mulboyne]

Xinhua: Japanese police to investigate food poisoning case as attempted murder

Japanese police established a joint task force Tuesday to investigate a food poisoning case involving Chinese-made frozen dumplings as attempted murder. The police of Chiba and Hyogo prefectures jointly made the announcement. They suspected someone deliberately put the pesticide substance called methamidophos into the dumpling products of the Chinese producer, the Tian Yang Food Plant in north China's Hebei Province. A total of 10 people from the two prefectures have been confirmed by the Japanese government as falling ill after consuming the contaminated dumplings. While suspicious clues such as the pesticide was in huge amount and there were small holes on some packages remain inexplainable, it's currently still unknown whether the food products were contaminated during the production and transportation process in China. The Chinese producer said it never used methamidophos in its factory and the products were packed immediately after production and then transported directly to Japan.

[Mulboyne]

Bloomberg: Japan Tobacco, Battling Poison Dumplings, Scraps Sale

Japan Tobacco Inc. and Nissin Food Products Co. scrapped a $500 million merger of their frozen food units after the cigarette company was accused of selling poisoned China-made dumplings that sickened at least 10 Japanese. Japan Tobacco scrapped an agreement to sell 49 percent in Katokichi Co. to the instant-noodle maker and then combine their frozen-food units, the three companies said through releases to the Tokyo Stock Exchange today...more...

[Charles]

..the cigarette company was accused of selling poisoned China-made dumplings..

JT certainly has appropriate experience handling poisonous consumer goods.

[Iraira]

Maybe it's considered trendy to have been "poisoned"?

Pesticide in 'gyoza' poisoned only 10
Since the revelation late last month that 10 people suffered chemical poisoning after eating China-made "gyoza" dumplings tainted with pesticide, more than 2,800 people have complained of feeling sick after eating frozen food from China.

None, other than the 10, has been recognized as suffering from chemical poisoning, health officials said Thursday.

Experts said that if patients had consumed only minute doses of pesticide, doctors would have probably reached a diagnosis of food poisoning and would not have conducted tests for organophosphates.

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http://search.japantimes.co.jp/cgi-bin/nn20080215a1.html

[ttjereth]

Maybe it's considered trendy to have been "poisoned"?

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http://search.japantimes.co.jp/cgi-bin/nn20080215a1.html

I'd be surprised if the old geezer doctors we had out in the boonies knew the word for "organophosphates"

[Iraira]

[ttjereth]

[succubusqueen]

I stopped buying gyoza ages ago...I like to cook and all that processed and frozen foods at the super markets are just nasty.

[Takechanpoo]

I stopped buying gyoza ages ago...I like to cook and all that processed and frozen foods at the super markets are just nasty.

I want to eat gyoza eaten by you.

[ttjereth]

I want to eat gyoza eaten by you.

So you want to eat her vomit or her shit?

[Takechanpoo]

So you want to eat her vomit or her shit?

Sure.
Mother always make her son something crunched by her all over the world.

[Greji]

Sure.
Mother always make her son something crunched by her all over the world.

I don't think all touch this one!

[Mulboyne]

Bloomberg: Japan Finds Pesticide in More Chinese Dumplings, Kyodo Reports

Japanese authorities found more traces of pesticide in packets of dumplings made by a Chinese company, Kyodo News agency reported, citing the police. Traces of the substance, methamidophos, were found in 39 packages kept at a wholesaler in Osaka, west of Tokyo, the report said. The packets of dumplings, known as gyoza, were made by Tianyang Food Co., the report said. Methamidophos is a "highly toxic pesticide," according to the United Nations' Food and Agriculture Organization. Maruha Corp., Ajinomoto Co. and Japan Tobacco Inc. recalled products supplied by Tianyang in January, after as many as 10 people in Japan fell ill from eating the dumplings. Chinese investigators examined Tianyang Food's production process in Hebei province and found no evidence of contamination or substandard ingredients, they said in February.

[Taro Toporific]

[Charles]

Japan detects pesticide in Chinese frozen beans

TOKYO • Japan yesterday ordered retailers to pull frozen beans from China off the shelves after a woman fell ill eating a product which had 34,500 times the legal limit of pesticide, officials said. Japan's health ministry instructed retailers and importers nationwide to suspend sales of frozen green beans from a Chinese supplier.

A ministry official said the woman felt numb in her mouth Sunday after eating a dish using the beans, which she had bought at a Tokyo supermarket. She went to hospital and was released with no apparent health problems after an overnight check, he said. The ministry ordered sales of the beans to be halted "until the cause of the incident becomes clear," the official said.

It is the latest health scare surrounding food from China, where four children died recently after consuming milk tainted with the industrial chemical melamine.

The Tokyo metropolitan government conducted tests on the beans on Tuesday and found they had 34,500 times the pesticide residue level permitted by the Japanese government. The beans were manufactured by Yantai Beihai Foodstuff in eastern China's Shandong province. A company spokesman said Chinese authorities were investigating the firm but managers did not believe it was responsible.

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[GomiGirl]

My local co-op called me last week as we bought gyoza months ago and they knew it. I told them not to worry as we had thrown it away when the scare became public. They had already sent us a note with a photo of the tainted goods but then they follow-up with a phone call.

Big brother is certainly watching what we eat!! Nah - that is a bit cynical, they were just following up in the interest of customer service - to make sure we are not dead and can keep coming to the supermarket to buy stuff.

[Taro Toporific]

Chinese workers poisoned by dumplings recalled after Japan outbreak
Mainichi - 2009jan24
BEIJING --China's food safety record took another hit, after a worker at a state-run steelmaker in Hebei suffered food poisoning caused by locally produced dumplings, which had been recalled following the outbreak of food poisoning in Japan and resold, sources close to the case said.
The local authorities instructed state-run firms in Hebei to buy gyoza dumplings produced and later recalled by Tianyang Food Plant in order to bail out the firm, now in crisis following the food safety scandal....

[Mulboyne]

Xinhua is reporting that police in China have made an arrest relating to the poisoned gyoza case. The suspect is believed to be an employee of a food company.