Technology for pumping crab bricks, painting for guava

After being reattached, crab crabs are soaked in chemicals before injecting a mixture of fake bricks including egg yolks, wheat flour and preservatives.

The owner of an agent specializing in supplying shrimp, crab, fish, squid said that this kind of fresh product is often divided into many types. For example, crabs, which are still alive, healthy, big, many eggs and bricks, are given priority to leave termites for big restaurants and hotels; Any smaller or irregular children are transferred to popular eateries; The remaining weak, broken, apricot, even dead on the transport roads are left to the street vendors or mobile small shops.

Most of these crabs are "waste products" but just by hand "treating" the ingenuity of the seller, this "wounded" crab , "fainting" will become shiny and fresh like never died.

Around 8pm on weekends, everyone in the family who specializes in selling crabs at Vung Tau beach is ready to prepare the stages for tomorrow's sale. The low-level, four-storey house is located in a small alley, only about 12sq.m, filled with crab crabs, and the smell of moldy and fishy smell is hard to describe. Surrounded by styrofoam boxes and dirty pots with a cloudy water color, the owner said it was a mixture of water, borax and monosodium glutamate.

Most of these crabs are "waste products" that have gone through processing technology.

Each dead crab will be recruited again, reattached to the legs and feet, then soaked into the above mixed water. During the soaking process, the processor sometimes puts in a chemical additive in a crumpled small package of unknown labels.

Completed the maceration to restore the shape of the crabs, people put in a large basket to drain, preparing to pump bricks. Counterfeit brick mixes include duck egg yolk, wheat flour, preservatives mixed together, pumped straight into tomorrow.

After going through many regeneration steps, all the dead crabs now become tense, burnt into the yellow pieces of bricks, looking far away from the pale image, stinking before. This technique also applies to live crabs.

Looking at the fresh seafood pots with crab crabs that are breathing heavily, raising their feet, it is hard to detect the mixture at the bottom of the pot which is ranked as a tick. Professional marine people can see if it is a "fresh " fresh product, which is "reborn" based on the color of the food. However, tourists, even though they are sophisticated, are difficult to distinguish crabs from 'beauty salons' when their children have been processed into lemongrass fragrant ginger.

Along with the crowd of crabs and crabs, an item originating from the mountain is also common in tourist areas.

This type of fruit is usually introduced by the seller to the new breed of guava, hybrid between peach and guava, can be called by many different names such as peach, guava, guava or peach. However, in fact, digging, pear . this is only due to the impregnation technology.

A person who specializes in selling chilled fruits in Vung Tau said that he wants some kind of guava, some steps are needed. First, choose guava fruits that are usually big, round, glossy, then clean the outer shell and rub the surface smooth. This is the most important stage in both normal "turn" of guava with shaggy crust into smooth guava fruits. If the guava surface is not carefully smoothed, when soaked in colored water, guava skin will not penetrate evenly or patchy color in bold, pale spots look unnatural.

In the second step, all the guava fruits that have been smoothed into the shell will be poured into a large pot or a baby tank with a blue water mixture available. The 'producers' claim that it is a non-toxic color, but according to some experienced people, it is a mixture of color, sugar and chemical flavoring with an adhesive used in the product. paint.

When the guava has been soaked for about half an hour, the worker will rub, mix the number of guava that is soaked in the tank, so as to infuse all the chemicals, when eaten will be sweet, fragrant and beautiful.

The dyed guava fruit is green like a tennis ball .

The guava fruits, after being turned into 'guava ', are all round and green, the skin is smooth and smooth, the aroma is soft, when the gut is not different from guava, it is usually very sweet, crunchy and sweet. On the market, this kind of guava is sold twice as expensive and 3 times more often.

Local people, if they do not know it, are easily fooled, let alone tourists who have a tendency to taste new and special things. A warm female visitor said, the last time she came to Vung Tau, she also accidentally bought the kind of guava introduced by the seller as the 'Tien Tien' variety of Dalat with the price of 40,000 VND per kg, much more expensive than normal guava.

But after only half a day, under the fierce heat typical of the coastal city, the newly purchased guava in the morning began to leak out the blue water, stinking like a long-lasting fruit, touching it with a viscous feeling, When washed, the surrounding water is dyed blue and has an unpleasant smell of chemicals. Since then she no longer dares to buy eye-catching fruits every time she travels, whether she is a fairy or a fairy, she is determined to shake her head.

Another fruit vendor near the tourist area said that this kind of guava was quite popular in the past, so it looked good and beautiful, so people from far away did not know how to buy it regularly. Characteristics that are easily recognizable are bright blue guava, without stalks, which at first glance are quite similar to tennis balls, but only need to last for about a day or two, guava fruits quickly ooze and stink. If you try to soak the guava in the water for a while, it will smell like water, turn light green.

After years of " storming " on fruit shops, this kind of guava has been banned but some small businesses are still stealthily carrying underhand bags. Local people saw that they were frightened by the warning, so the people who were " mostly " in were still tourists.

When asked why the people do not speak to people from far away, some people split their mind: 'I am not so easy on people' s rice rod, they have the nerve to do this as a 'bear', authorities Unmanaged ability is… '.

To know if crabs have real or fake bricks, they must be distinguished by color.The bottom of the apricot in the end will see quite clearly the inner brick: the color of the brick is really fresh, the color of the fake brick is slightly light blue.When processed, the bricks are really bright, smooth and fresh, both fragrant and fresh, fake bricks are pale yellow, medium and light.