A true story happened in Kedah, Perlis, Johor... pasar malam area where GORENG PISANG are sold in the afternoon.
Mom said, my uncle saw the GORENG PISANG hawker added plastic straw for drinking water into hot oil and it melted before he fried the GORENG PISANG, that is why GORENG PISANG, UBI.. etc all are very crispy for hours....
And, my uncle asked the hawker and he just kept quite. When my uncle told my mom, they realized that this is the way how fried fritters are crispy for a while. My mom said that in Thailand it’s common to do the same to keep the fried food crispy eg : ikan bilis, fried onions etc, which if you leave them in the open air for hours still crispy.
Please tell all your friends :
DO NOT EAT CRISPY FRIED FOOD from the hawkers if you suspect that!
To prove, just compare both Goreng Pisang made from you and from hawker. Leave it in the open air for hours and caompare.
Here's another true story:
I was with my family Cameron Highlands. It was 3pm and we were hanging around a market area. We saw many hawker stalls, suddenly something attracted my attention. At one of the stalls, there was a big wok of boiling oil with a half-5-litre empty oil bottle in it.
The plastic bottle melted slowly in the hot oil. At first I thought it was an unintentional act by a 7-yr-old girl. But when I looked closely, I saw she was holding a pair of chopsticks and stirring the bottle.It appears the act was intentional ! Oh my God ! These people are using melted plastic to fry food so that the tit bits will not go soft when it cooled due to plastic !
