How Chinese Demand For Fish Maw (Swim Bladder) Fuels A $52 Million Industry In Uganda | So Expensive
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Fish maw - the swim bladder of a fish - is one of the most expensive dried-seafood products in the world. A Chinese delicacy, it can fetch $450 to $1,000 per kilogram. It’s often viewed as a symbol of wealth and prosperity, and it's given out as gifts at important events and stockpiled as a speculative investment. It’s one of the “four treasures” of Cantonese cuisine, along with abalone, sea cucumber, and shark fin. But the main reason fish maw is so desired is its supposed medical value. Because of its high levels of collagen and fiber, it's believed to promote healthy skin, boost the immune system, and aid digestion. Fish maw is also often recommended in China for postpartum recovery and to reduce post-surgery pain. But because of overfishing in East Asia, China now imports the majority of its bladders from other countries, like Uganda. In Uganda, fishers compete for Nile perch in Lake Victoria and ship them to China for extremely high prices.
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How Chinese Demand For Fish Maw (Swim Bladder) Fuels A $52 Million Industry In Uganda
I got a feeling that in China, every part of the animal is anti aging other than regular meat
Helplessly delusional
@@koopa5504 They sure live a hell of a lot healthier for longer compared to Americans though, don't they?
@@LiNapster First of all they don't live longer, they're about at the same range of age expectancy. Secondly, I'm swiss, ranked 3-4 in terms of life expectancy and we don't know fairy tales like asians like to spread literred with unscientific nonsense. Healthier? I doubt, but yes americans are horribly unhealthy and uneducated in general.. doesn't make asians, especially chinese, less delusional in terms of buying fraud products with supposed "health benefits" ...it's all about manipulation and mind-controll, ask the media and the people about critizising the government.
@@LiNapster Yeah, but where's their quality of life? I'll give up a few decades of my life so that I can eat normal meat and not fish assholes and turtle testes.
@@LiNapster the life expectancy of China is not higher than the USA
I breed and raise African cichlids in the USA, quite a few are from lake Victoria.
What most people don't know is how massive of an impact these fish have had on the native species
The Nile perch they are catching are absolutely decimating the native speices, and have been for decades. Most Native species in the lake max out at 5", which is snack size for these big fish.
It's great there is a high demand for them. I am glad the fisherman are targeting them, which is helping keep the numbers down.
Hopefully one day, they can be eradicated so the lake can go back to what it once was.
Many species in lake Victoria are endemic to the lake, and many species have been red listed or gone extinct, so the removal of these non native apex predators is the only way these native fish will survive.
For anybody curious about what native fish I'm talking about, look up Victorian cichlids.
There are hundreds of different species and many of them are absolutely gorgeous, bright reds, greens, blues, yellows etc..
Ever think of training them to eat there own kind?
Like rats??
So using that same logic, humans should also be hunted and killed because we're the ones killing everything.
Americans can't think like you. They just see a big fish and think 'oh it must be very old. you shouldn't kill that. you piece of shit!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!' That's how exactly Americans will say.
Tangayikan Cichlids keeper here. *waves*
@@Joe-sg9llLOL 🤣
FYI that maw also has a purpose in the medical industry, it is used to make surgical threads.
Can I point out how really cool it is that this market has switched from an endangered species to an invasive one? They are helping to preserve one ecosystem while profiting from it, which is nice.
(As for the totoaba problem, 😐😬🙃)
You have no clue what your talking Dude..they Just will destroy the next fish....Not cool..Money or not
@@rentoshine2038 If it's invasive, it's best to just remove it from the invaded territory. Invasive species can completely affect the ecosystem, destroying the native population they prey on, while having no natural predators, or outcompeting species in their niche. This unbalance can even lead native species to extinction. As invasive species are generally our fault (humans trading animals, plants, etc., and letting them escape), I don't see a problem in making an industry that relies on hunting/removing an invasive species. This can really help to stabilize the invaded environment, to avoid even more extinctions.
As for the endangered species, like the ones illegaly traded, yeah, hunting them is really bad.
u get it. at some point we just have to stop letting the locusts consume everything in site.@@rentoshine2038
totoaba problem is honestly is so destructive , it also causing the vaquita extinction . We all witnessing this in this timeline , there's less than 15 left in the wild.
@@rentoshine2038shut up
"It tastes better than pizza" 😭😭😭
😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
How about you put it on pizza 🤯
lol pizza that’s it !!!! PIZZA!!!!!
Lol they must have not had good pizza
@@jonathanyoung8109 i m italian.....after the pineapple this.......do you want to kill us all?
Love to see a Ugandan fisherman make way above average by EU standards
Can I commend the narrator on her smooth narration and calming delivery. Wonderful job
Thank you!
You're thinking an AI robot.
@@OneOut1 Well, the AI's HUMAN name is literally listed at the end of every video...
As a Ugandan I would like to say that this trade has fuelled rampant government corruption and imprisonment of fish traders in the country.
Anywhere there is money there will be corruption. But i think for the short term it definitely gonna give some boost. Long term i see these fish going away
Oh boy. I am so sorry.
Everywhere if there is money to be made, there will be corruption. Just live simple lives, catch your own food, eat, sleep and relax.
What a surprise... It seems like everything Chinese people get involved with in Africa involves corruption. China is extremely corrupt, so they must feel right at home when doing business there.
Lol guess what? Even if you get rid of this trade, "rampant government corruption" will not go away.
The problem isn't related to trading in general, it's related to...something else. I hope you can figure it out someday.
Fun fact: you can make glue from the fish maw. This glue has traditionally been used in composite bows
and surgical threads!
@@CampbellJRMartinyeah! it's weird i don't see anyone mentioning this
The Schrutes value hog maw the most; especially around holidays.
I love fish maw. Its delicious in soups and has a great texture!
Lol literally what I was gonna type the same. I just thought it tastes good and texturally contrast to the crab meat. I hate saying this but I feel the west is so ignorant sometimes. Like they’re the only ones on this earth lol. There are other shit in the world ppl are aloud to be different. I was shookethhhh when I when I was offered Rocky Mountain oysters and was knocking them back until those bastards told me they were literally balls lol. 🤷🏻 perception changes.
@@sovitaseng5519 am looking for market, any referral please
@@sovitaseng5519as long as it's not endangered , it's fine if the stuff is coming from endangered species then yes ppl would have a problem with it common sense no?
The most expensive piece i saw in person, was a piece weight ~1kg dried, 200k$ for that piece. It's from a rare species, Boesemania microlepis, existing only in certain fresh water bodies in Southeast Asia. As weird as it sounds, traders have to store these literal gold in safes.
If something sells for 200k you bet your ass I am putting that shit into a gold safe
@@penguinpingu3807 not the weirdest way people store these stuff, one trader i know rent a safe in a bank to store a 20k piece.
@@penguinpingu3807 Imagine coming home and your wife accidentally cook it for dinner. LOL
@@walden6272 ngl, I would be eating it because that thing is for eating. Though, I would be piss because it supposed to be for a special occasion.
Why the hell does it matter if fish maw comes from a certain species, they all taste the same lol
Hahaha Hakeem the fisher @ 7:41 is hilarious, give that man the maw and the money! You understand?
proud of them hard workers, they deserve more just this little opportunity and loophole💯
This is awesome, i hope it doesn't encourage people to breed them for profit. I love that they're removing an invasive and making good money
So you Devils can make money but God's chosen people can't make a profit off of our own land and fishes? That is literally ass backwards
Perch and Carp propagate like weeds. They are ravenous pests and need no breeding.
Does chinese market have any interest in lion fish? It would help a lot
I love eating fish maw, abalone, sea cucumber, and shark fin soup.
That's the good shit
🤢
Dude is playing endangered species bingo
Thanks for contributing to the endangering of species and global decimation
@@CFinch360yet no one cares when the west kills and destroys entire animal species and peoples, mind your own business and stop pestering other people with your hypocritical nonsense
I've had fish maw and it is delicious. It's made in casseroles, stews and soups. Not fishy tasting at all.
WHY NOT USE ASIAN CARP!!!! THEY ARE EVERYWHERE!!!!
We live in Sitiawan town in Malaysia. The people here like to eat fish maw cook in sweet and sour soup..
My favorite soup. But so expensive. Only can eat it once a year.
It's a luxury for sure.
Make it with fried pork rind.
i love how chill the ugandan guy is
I am also relate from fishmaw bussiness. This video is very informative and best. Thank alot for this wonderful video 🤝
Uganda: six fish, it was a bad day.
U.S.: we have a 4k maw as a keep sake.
My god the discrepancy.
The population of nile perch has been declining a good 15 years ago. We’ve known about this for some time now. Also, the average American doesn’t consume fish maw commercially. YES, the discrepancy is huge but we could have done something about this when I first heard about this decades ago.
"It tastes better than pizza" only because they want you to buy it 😂
If it taste like tripe I'll buy it.
If I was presented with pizza and soup made from swim bladder then I would chose the soup. lol
Chinese will say any endangered crap is a viagra
Tastes better than Ugandan pizza or REAL pizza??? 👀 😅
I was asking the same question.
lol😂😂😂
That man is a true snake oil salesman
I tried this fish bladders once. I'd said they are indeed tasted very good. But Pizza still the winner for me lol.
@@asjoe444 had this more than once and its one of my favorite things to have if it's available but not something i'd really go out of my way to have. the taste is pretty neutral but mate i swear to god the texture is to die for and only a good chef can pull it off.
Win-win for both the locals (meat) and Chinese (fish swim bladder).
Come on you guys please embrace the difference of each country’s food culture. Chinese discovered so many techniques and developed many methods to cook and preserve unusual cuts of the animals through our respect to the ingredients. This is pure legacy and wisdom. All countries in the world eats the same cuts of the animals, but that doesn’t mean we have to throw away the rest of the animals no? Open your mind, try before criticize.
If it is an invasive species in Lake Victoria then they are raking dollars here while helping the local population of these fish in check.
As a Ugandan, I will start demanding my fish as whole at the market 😅😅😅😅
Love this
I need it in abundance, as much as I want. As long as you have the goods
You need to catch the fish yourself.
Women in Uganda don't 😂
Yin and yang is equilibrium, fish bladder doesn't float nor sink, it's equilibrium
Probably a chinese dude : Let's make DOOLLAZZZZ 💲
That's crazy. Just over-fish one area and move to the next! sounds like a great plan
Nile perch is an invasive species and wiping out the native fish population in lake victoria
3:38 “Fishing for an invasive species”. It is not even that far down the videos man…
This is an invasive species, they are doing good for their environment and making money. Win Win.
Like the USA. Bomb one country and then onto thr next!
The chinese have cleaned out their own oceans & are on a mission to eat everyone else's supply. They single handedly have nearly wiped out so much food from other countries. Australian farms & mines are owned by them so they can ship it all home.
They kinda glossed over that point. Glad someone else cought that.
Plus they will eat the weirdest shit you can find and gift the world new viruses.
The only thing they haven't discovered yet: Morals.
Thats called business u dummy.
So what? They are investors that bring in cash to local economies and create jobs for many people. Why don't you blame Australians who sell it in the first place. Mines around the world used to be owned by western countries through imperialism, wars. Resources, foods just stolen by force from colonies. At least the Chinese pay fair and square. They are more morally sound than any bs thieving western nation. Australia is still stealing oils from Timor through politics for decades. What a farce when wolf cry wolf.
He has that love every fisherman has for the fight the fish gives❤❤❤❤🎉🎉🎉
Holy shit, fish maw! Those things really do taste heavenly. My favorite is a soup, with some black vinegar. Yummmmmmmm
Glad that the belt and road initiative has reached Uganda
Hats off to finding a lucrative way to take care of a invasive species
My question is: can you use salt water fish as well? Most fish have swim bladders. You figure most fish processors would welcome a new income stream. I get that not all of them may be "perfect" but you can at least hit that budget conscious niche.
Since we have an Asian carp problem in some areas of the US, then hunting them for their maws (as well as meat) would incentivize more people to go after them.
Yes, you can use swim bladders from salt water fish and turn them into fish maw, in fact, the most expensive fish maw usually comes from the croaker family, croakers are salt water fishes
I might be wrong, but from what I heard carp has a muddy smell to their meat, and I guess their swim bladder will have the same issue to for it to be considered
yes. if you watch the video, the chinese originally use yellow croaker. It's being farmed, but the ones i see in the market is small. It might not be economically to farm one that yield a good size bladder. and small I mean the length of a hand and the bladder would be the size of a finger . Not sure which finger.
the Taotoba they mention is found in the gulf of california.
Most of the Swin bladder is from the conger pike . I think I see them coming from SOuth Africa.
and the problem with Asian carp is that it's fast growing and cheap. if you can cheaply catch them , it could be processed for something we eat as well.
I thought the carp issue was too much pollution in US waters
it's really strange seeing products that are supposedly very valuable and expensive being sold in open cardboard boxes and generic plastic bags. it don't get it, the japanese will wrap up cheap and trivial items so they look great, while these shops are selling luxury goods like junk at a yard sale.
And they handle them with bare hands throwing here and there..
I'm sure your new 2023 Lamborghini V8 was test driven by that 19 year old who drove it to the lot 😂
@@LiqqaRoni-cx3tx then prove it. tell us about the lamborghini delivery process and how it's as sloppy as tossing some fish parts in a cardboard box on the store floor and letting whoever comes by handle them.
Chinese don't have class
@@thaer12345 like you people don't have manner.
Yellow croakers are farmed raised now, but what I see are small fish. It might be too expensive to raise them to get a decent size swim bladder. I on the other hand substitute it with fried pork rind. although, I would try to get the baked version of it. But I wouldn't know what to do with the type of swim bladder I see. I never used i, but I might know what to do if they fried it up and it puffs up like pork rind. And for those who are form Europe, It used in some beer. it's called isenglass.
Interesting! I've never heard such thing called isinglass before and just googled it to confirm what u said. Thanks.
30KG? more like 8 pounds!! LOL
try 3 maybe 4
better than pizza? Now wait just a minute, Sir.
One's rubbish is another person's treasure. A win-win scenario.
Chinese would eat anything to stop ageing 😅😅
Oh wow so much fish maw. Yum!
Chinese are one of a kind species. God help them.
i still dont get it, why Chinese always practice old way without any proof of medicinal purpose
Because apparently, everything endangered will increase the size of their men's little non functioning testicles.
he wouldn't be lifting it like that if it was 30 kg's.
Looks like less than 10kg to me
They were very clearly not talking about the small fish he's holding. You think that he caught the biggest fish he's ever landed while they happened to be recording? Think critically for a second before getting all mad
@joshs3775 they literally said that he caught 6 fish that day and the biggest was 30kg they show all 6 fish and the one he was holding was the biggest one.. maybe you should know what you are on about before chiming in.. 😏
@@joshs3775 .
Thank you for showcasing our country. 😅😊
Don’t care about its medicinal effect.
But fish maw soup is really delicious…!
Fish maw taste similar to porkskin…but much better taste!.,
🤤
Uh, I’ve had fish maw many times and never thought there was much taste to them. It’s pretty much bland collagen and protein until you put some sauce or soup on them. Nice crunch, but I wouldn’t pay much money for them.
Glad to hear that the trade is helping to manage an invasive species though. That’s how the Chinese like to handle it, eat our way out of the problem. Plenty of those untapped opportunities in the US.
Shark fin and Fish maw doesn't have much "taste" it gives the soup body and umami. you know like msg. It's a flavour enhancer.
They eat all the fish in south china sea and now they are hunting corals in west philippine sea, they are sick
I really wish they'd eat their own endangered panda instead of other endangered species. Tell em panda hearts are the secret to immortality.
Here in indonesia, we also have a species of fish that most expensive their swimp blader, we called by "Tirus" , for 10 kg of fish price 5000 $ but . The different with Uganda, we not pop the blader.
Barramundi
@@eggbenedict-gt7mw different
I don’t see a problem as long as its sustainably caughty, though it’s probably the main issue in this business
Why anyone would spend that much on mild flavored collagen is beyond me. Shark fin, Abalone, & Sea cucumber aren't much better - they're all a lot tougher than other nicer types of seafood.
nostalgia, tradition, believing it keeps you young. The same can be said of the West when you talk about caviar which is just fish eggs, a shiny rock to give to someone for marriage, or anti aging serum beauty products that prey on the vain. The toughness is part of the it all, texture is very important in Asian cuisine and some people love chewy stuff.
@@callmekham8458 Fish eggs at least taste nice and salty and go pop. Not worth the price, but still pretty good.
We have a joke amongst us Chinese: “The planes in the sky, the trains on the ground, and the ships in the ocean: these things we don’t eat. Everything else, we do.”
Wrong. That's only a Hong Kong Cantonese saying. Only certain people eat exotic food because they want to challenge each other to bravery. Even those who eat some insects are people of hill tribes bordering Thailand, Vietnam region. Most other groups of Chinese do not eat those things. They just stick to the normal farm animals like most other people in the world.
Recently Chinese trawlers destroyed Hundreds of kilometers of coral reefs in there neighbors territory just to get their seafood
Kind of remind me of dried pig ears. Dogs love em.
It's funny that the guy keeps getting robbed on his way to sell to the Chinese.. He hasn't worked it out yet 😂
need to send china some lionfish and zebra mussels and florida pythons, best way to deal with invasive species is eating them.
Just tell them it has anti aging properties and helps with your vitality and BAM profit.
@@gaveintothedarkness better one is it increases libido they are crazy for that shit
For real china will probably buys them for 200$ each. if in a day you catch 30 then you can make 6000$ dollar a day.
they will eat snakeheads. zebra mussels are questionable, because they store heavy metals and might poison them. They will eat the snake and send us back boots. I am wondering why we don't see that part more often. they might like lionfish. I was told they are like scorpion fish in flavour. But they prefer live fish. Hong kong is falling apart, but if you got a bunch of them in a tank, it might make a good show for them to have them cook it.
Very yummy indeed , especially for soups ❤
Now we just need Lionfish stings to be added to the list of "Cantonese Food Treasures" and that'll be another invasive species taken care of!
The strangest thing is how did the Chinese figure out a way to process fish swim bladder and eating it?
Instead of treating it as garbage and throwing it away.
Used to be a lot of Nile perch like that at 50lbs they have just been over fished
Overfishing Nile perch on Lake Victoria is a good thing, Nile Perch is an invasive species introduced by British Colonial government from Egypt.
This is great but if the fish became endangered in China don't allow them to deplete what there is in Uganda and potentially disrupt the local eco system. We have to learn to think ahead and not deplete our own resources. If you do, China will just move on to the next and you will then have nothing.
They said Nile perch is an invasive species. Kinda nice they are switching from an endangered species to an invasive one. If anything, these fishers are helping their original ecosystem.
9 DASH 10 NOW BECAME 10 DASH 10 OCCUPYING PHILIPPINE TERRITORY NOW YOU KNOW WHY THEY ARE VERY EAGER TO CONTROL THE SEA
Quite condescending tone u got there, assuming the Ugandan don't have the abilities to manage their country or to properly invest their profit into something worthwhile. Is not like the Chinese didn't pay them for the fish product.
Did you even watch the video? It's an invasive species that's literally eating all the native species...so they don't give a fart, they would prefer to fish it to extinction, but that would lead them to be out of the fish for future profits, which would force them back to fishing native species and selling at the fish market again instead of only focusing on fish maw revenue. If you're worried about China, worry about Japan. For a small ass country, they consume 5 times as much seafood than China which has 10 times as many people and 81% of the worlds fresh tuna. Japan literally has fleets world wide and influences to buy everyone's seafood since the waters around Japan can't be sustained or relied on to solely supply and feed their population.
@@dannykuang9433 did you pay attention? they literally said "the rest of the fish is sold in Uganda where it is a delicacy". So the locals consume the fish itself, it is a food source they rely on. Now go back and read my comment but this time without the internet arrogance and try to comprehend what was said. Not sure what the China, Japan argument is for, of course Japan consumes more fish...Japan is an ISLAND...China is on the mainland. That dynamic is true in every corner of the world, If the country is surrounded by water then they consume a lot of fish. We're discussing China because that is the subject of the discussion in the video.
Fish maw taste amazing !
Why doesn't China just create underwater fish farms to reproduce more so they're not endangered. They do it in Mexico
we did, but they won't report, they want you to think there are one or two fish in China's sea
Culture of consuming everything until they run out of it.
If aliens invade I know for a fact the Chinese will eat them.
Hell yeah😂
They literally cook their food in grease from sewers, so ya. They will eat anything. Part of being a dirt poor disgusting communist country.
Chinese eat everything Avilable in the world 😂
Truth but that is ficling racist😂😂
They will taste better than pizza
Indian Ghol fish also so expensive.
Yes I saw videos of these cooking the fish bladder but always wonder what is this is
Fry it it becomes like a plastic.
I have no idea what they found tasty about it!
Can you get it from the carp in the US?
All fish have swim bladder but not all swim bladder are worth harvesting.
It's because you fried it instead of putting it in a stew/soup. Considering how the carp came from China and are native there, if there was a market for Asian carp swim bladder, then it would have already been capitalized both in China and in the states.
When he said it taste better than Pizza. I was literally holding a slice eating pizza. I was like is it reading my mind?
😂kind of!!😂😂😂😂😂
Lol. I really doubt it's better than pizza. Maybe if you've never had za 😂
Insider Business thought let's make a lighthearted human interest documentary about over-fishing so no to criticize the Chinese and Africans too much.
None of those 6 fish are 30kg not even close to that
The reason for the mis calculation is probably because he doesn't know the difference between the metric and imperial system. Its a common mistake Ugandans make in calculation, they mix both systems. Because most of them didn't went to school or not long enough to really learn the difference. So they learn math on the streets. And most of there gear is second hand from all over the world.
So they use the metric system names but don't know that if the scale reads out in the imperial system that the numbers means something else. 30pounds become 30 kg.
Local communities should sell them at global prices they difference is too big. Buying at $6.7 per kg and selling between $400 to 1600. That's crazy.
that's not how markets work
The Uganda government need to try to organize the market - that will appropriately compensate the fishermen.
We should turn them on to the Asian carp in the US waters
Ooo yummy dried fish bladders lol!
nothing bad has ever come from longlining and dried seafood for snake oil anti aging dishes
Hakeem is hilarious 😂
Why not making fish farms for this kind of fish and maw , it will be a good idea to save the species and fulfill the big demands , like caviar fish farms
30 kg Fish is over 66 LBS no way that fish weighs that much. And the biggest fish he caught was 98 kg or 216 lb fish! Wow
Do the Ugandan people make these millions, or do the Chinese exploit them?
I guess European colonizers know best what “exploitation” means. Keep gaslighting, projecting and blame shifting, white colonizers. Africans welcome Chinese in their midst. Africans still have severe nightmares from the hell they have suffered at the hands of the white supremacists and colonizers.
You already know the answer
I love how chinese literally eat the garbage parts of the animals so europeans can eat the good cuts lol
What is good and bad, is a matter of opinion tbh. In the UK, chicken breast is considered the most expensive cut, but Chinese consider the drumstick the best and I can't disagree with them.
Initially Chinese eat shark fin soup but now may replace fish maw which is still cheaper available source.
What gets me is at the end when that lady says it gives him nostalgia and it reminds them of back home, how's is that?
What happened to their fish what did they do with their fish did they ever have that kind of fish or they just like that fish from another country and if it is how is that nostalgia if they never have that fish till then?
😅
🧐
It's a childhood dish served at special occasions at the family table. Sort like turkey on Thanksgiving. So when you grow up, you want to carry on the tradition for your kids.
What happened to their fish 🐟
Here's 4k for a air bladder 😂😂😂😂 with mythical anti aging properties 😂😂😂😂 and let me guess china over fished it as always
Edit: yep I was right
China will label anything endangered as "aphrodisiac" and so many Chinese men will buy it for whatever reason.
I think anti-aging is hyperbolic for our times. If you don't eat enough, a tonic containing fish maw that is 95% protein is pretty nutritious.
It is the Cantonese Hong Kongers who have the money. They are the ones who demand all these exotic food.
Na those weird foods with supposed health benefits are all over China. The ones in Hong Kong may have more expensive ones because they have a lot of money. But those eastern medicine shops are all over China and they have overpriced nonsense that does nothing and probably tastes horrible.@@s._3560
dude the west use fish swim bladder too, and their version is even more expensive.
although we are moving away from it. It's used to make beer.
It cost a lot because people in China believe in magic.
Doesn't mean that He doesn't exist. Also, a lot of Chinese people believing in magic doesn't mean it's not true.
Things are true or false independent of popularity.
The real issue is they believe it provides something that some supplements can't
@@Seele.mp3who is bad with money and ask for donations every week
@@driocku just culture. either you eat some thing that you know just by looking what it is or you believe and trust some random guy taking your money saying this pill is indeed what you are looking for. most people just want one thing and not anything extra. the scamming culture in china is so common it aint funny. people add stuff thats not healthy for human consumption to make what they trying to sell more appealing.
For example. cooking oil. cheap and everywhere. yet some street stalls and restaurants in china proceed to collect oil from the sewage drains or the drainage gutters. still oil, just got a lot of shit no one wants in it. Another example would be leeks/chives. you would think it cant be scammed. but some people go out their way to dye the chives with a colorant. making the leaves look vibrant green. if you in the habit of buying chives from asian stores, or source is from asia. bring a paper towel and give the chives a quick wipe. if you see green colorant on the paper, dont get it.
The magic the Chinese believe is medicine, the natural medicine found around the forest, the contents and aftereffects of diets. This is the ancient prescriptions that exists for more than centuries. Because there are no proper way of prescribing the scientific way for traditional Chinese medicine, they describe it as best as they could to profit from it and help the community from plagues and diseases.
Fried fish maw in soup is delicious. Chewy and squishy.
4k a month is pretty good
Boycott Chinese Products For Ethical Reasons
Boycott Made in USA for its warmongering.
Ethical reasons? For what? So you don’t eat fish? You just waste the whole fish and just eat the flesh? They animals sacrifice their lives for you and you threw away most of the stuffs? Who is being unethical? The fish gets killed by Americans and Japanese anyways when they make fish fillet and sashimi. You are the ones being unethical for wasting the whole fish and only get the flesh. You guys are the unethical ones and we should boycott American and Japanese brands.
The Chinese would eat a Fart ...
Let’s prey that the Chinese never catch wind of the powerful aphrodisiac known only to a select few as “Human Horn”
lol Western people has eaten up bunches of animal species such as the Stella's Sea Cow, Dodo, Whitebait, Passenger Pegeon, etc. stop pretending to be a virtuous holy Virgin Mary or something, the situation of the Large Yellow Croakers in China is just alright because China's planting and breeding techniques are among one of the best in the world, China produces more than 60% of the world's farmed sea products but western media will never report it cause they want you to think that there are only few fish living in China's sea then you can start to criticise
Other posters who said fish maw taste yummy.... No it doesn't. Fish maw itself has no taste, even worse no texture... I even wonder if any scientific evidence for its nutritional value...
I bet money that guy has never tasted a real pizza in his life.
Dude must have strong hands for that line to not cut thru his hands!!
$4000 per piece? some really old pieces go for more than 90k usd
Meen am enjoying this video
I gotta be honest. I had no idea wth I was eating when I first tried it.. but that thing is effing delicious...