Randy (and others in China) start saving up your change !

[True Blue]

http://www.chinadaily.com.cn/china/2017-09/29/content_32627471.htm

 

And I thought I had seen everything in a vending machine. Hahaha, this one is pretty unbelievable and funny! Wouldn't want to sit down the hall from the vending machine after the driver called in sick for a couple days....

[Randy W]

They have these at the RT Mart, but no vending machines. They are on ice, and most are very much alive, but some, well, it's hard to tell. Packaged pretty much the same way.

 

I tend to avoid any kind of seafood, because of what they MARINADE in for most of their life span

[Allon]

I have gotten knee draggin' sick on crabs that have been sittin' for a while. Never again....

[Randy W]

No wonder they're lining up - they're all of ¥15.90 at RT Mart (only ¥15 from the machine)

 

[Randy W]

in the SCMP

 

Mainland halt on hairy crab exports keeps them off the menu in Hong Kong, as peak season nears

Food inspectors find more dangerous levels of cancer-causing chemicals in crab samples, this time from Taoyuan, Taiwan

 

And on Monday local food bosses once again found crabs intended for sale in the city exceeding safe levels of potentially deadly chemicals.

The Centre for Food Safety tested 12 samples of hairy crabs, including five from local sellers who claimed to have got them from the mainland, in probable contravention of the embargo.

It found one sample from Taoyuan, Taiwan, with excessive levels of cancer-causing chemicals, namely dioxin and dioxin-like polychlorinated biphenyls.

Both are highly toxic chemical compounds that can cause cancer and damage the reproductive and immune systems, according to the centre.

The other 11 samples, including five brought from the mainland, three from Hokkaido, Japan, and three from Taichung, Taiwan, all tested safe.

 

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Since November last year, the mainland government has not allowed imports of hairy crabs to Hong Kong. Back then, samples originating from two farms in Lake Tai, Jiangsu province, recorded dioxin levels almost double the acceptable level.

Local retailers said Jiangsu crabs – catches from Lake Tai and Yangcheng, in the province, are the most sought-after – were still missing from restaurant menus, as mainland supplies are still on hold.