Cooking oil is used heavily in chinese food so some street vendors and.
China street food gutter oil.
Besides being downright disgusting the oil is also said to contain carcinogens and other toxins.
The chinese are cracking down on gutter oiling cooking with oils and animal fatbergs scooped from the sewer in the wake of the deadly coronavirus outbreak.
In china gutter oil has been used to create products like soap rubber bio fuel plastics rooftops and cosmetics.
China has been fighting the practice for years.
Gutter oil is reported to account for one tenth of cooking oil in china according to experts cited by rfa.
It can also be used to describe the processing of waste oil collected from sources such as restaurant fryers grease traps slaughterhouse waste and fatbergs.
China s food safety problems have no better symbol than the illegal and utterly disgusting problem of gutter oil.
It can be used to describe the practice of restaurants re using cooking oil that has already been fried before.