Comments on: Want To See How Gutter Oil Is Made? Of Course You Do http://beijingcream.com/2013/10/want-to-see-how-gutter-oil-is-made/ A Dollop of China Tue, 22 Jan 2019 17:42:34 +0000 hourly 1 By: hehe http://beijingcream.com/2013/10/want-to-see-how-gutter-oil-is-made/#comment-234196 Fri, 01 Nov 2013 07:38:39 +0000 http://beijingcream.com/?p=19485#comment-234196 The small gutter oil collection trucks are still around. No reason why the oil shouldn’t be. As the other poster said, eat in Guijie = take your chances. Gutter oil is the main source of 拉肚子

]]> By: Cindy http://beijingcream.com/2013/10/want-to-see-how-gutter-oil-is-made/#comment-233982 Wed, 30 Oct 2013 14:17:26 +0000 http://beijingcream.com/?p=19485#comment-233982 “All we can do is accept it. In our current society, everybody tries to swindle everybody else. There’s nothing we can do about it.”
From what I’ve heard among relatives and international students, this sadly seems to be the general attitude in China. The fact that they believe they can’t solve any of China’s problems = perpetuation of a shit behaviour.

]]> By: Greg http://beijingcream.com/2013/10/want-to-see-how-gutter-oil-is-made/#comment-233932 Wed, 30 Oct 2013 07:58:07 +0000 http://beijingcream.com/?p=19485#comment-233932 簋街 is absolutely full of this, at least that’s what the word on the street is. Anything that’s super oil intensive probably has the gutter oil: 烤鱼，麻辣香锅，and especially火锅 etc. are all apparently heavy on the gutter oil. You can either a) cook in, which is really not that hard for any of the above dishes or b) take your chances. If you’re living in China, then your probably already down for option b) all the way.

Anyways, winter is coming and that means hot pot season. I’m sticking to the 老北京涮肉 since at least that’s oil free. But yea, I live near 簋街 and have definitely seen people collecting the gutter oil there and in other places within the fourth ring road. Like everything else in this country, you really do get what you pay for, so if you’re like dead set on having some 重庆 style hotpot then I’d go somewhere upscale like 海底捞 if you want to avoid eating that slop.

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