besides all the MSG and the chance of toxins,
Japanese TV showed unagi in China being raised in sewage.

Among conscious eaters around here, unagi from China is well known to stay away from.

wise decision Pierced, if it doesn't taste right take it back immediately and demand the money back from the store. Usually you can get it if you make enough of a fuss, it might be too late now, but for future reference.


actually there is a very high rate of us customs turning away some chinese ingredients exported here over food safety issues

apparently if you criticize their government on the internet they can find you

but if you poison people, steal intellectual property, pollute rivers people drink from, sell an antifreeze ingredient as glycerin as a cough syrup ingredient in the third world (killing dozens of children) the government somehow cannot find or punish the perpetrators, and then of course we have the painted toys.

I know, it's a cooking tribe, but alas as another stated here even many chinese do not feel safe buying ingredients imported from china (though they will from Taiwan or Singapore as this food is so much safer) so political critique perhaps has a foothold here where thus far we've avoided political discussion.

Still none of us want to poison ourselves, or our guests and loved onces.