The Scandalous Truth Revealed!
All ye hawker food aficionados, shut your ears, and sing Kylie’s “Na na na” song.
Oh wait. You’re reading this.
I keep thinking I’m actually talking outloud.
I have to stop all these voices in my head.
I have an industry source that revealed ALL! Ok, she only revealed one secret. But she is a true genuine industry source.
I’m talking about Chicken Stock. Yea… good ol Chicken Stock. The one that is used for Chicken Rice, Fish Ball Noodle soup, Kway Teow Noodle Soup…actually, any clear soup base that hawkers use.
This is what my industry source says :
“You know. These people, they just buy 1kg of Chicken Bones and boil a HUGE pot of water to make the stock.”
And the most shocking thing..
“They then put spoons after spoons of Ajinomoto MSG”.
“You know, you make soup with these bones for just one meal…they can use just 1kg to last the entire day!”
Ok..I knew that they used MSG to add some flavour to the stock. But this comes to a real shock to me, that they use SPOONS after SPOONS of it. Are our bodies so used to the SPOONS and SPOONS of MSG, that we no longer feel the effects of it?
Gone…gone are the high standards I’ve upheld for my Hawker aunties and uncles.
*sniff*
Industry source : my unnamed poultry seller. 
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itellyiu, outside food no matter what they say, all use MSG wanla. But its not nice means no MSG. But not nice u wanna eat ah?
sad to say…they all do that. otherwise where got taste ah? maybe the higher class restaurants use better msg such as Ajinomoto
I was brought up to eat less salt, less sugar (if possible none) and less oily food. There’s no sugar in my house. Haha. Whenever I eat outside food, just don’t drink the soup.
ABUTHEN??!! You think they can really cook and wondering why yours at home sucks compared to theirs? My FIL is a part-time cook, hah! anyway, mott, mott, mott…* i shake head*… i can’t believe you are THIS innocent
Didn’t you hear from sam ku luk por in the pasar, kedai runcit, etc. that outside food is loaded with MSG? Aiseh..I thought you knew.
I second Vien’s question. If only you asked me, I can beat your poultry seller with more detailed info!!!
Aiya, it’s expected. If you eat outside, expect lots of MSG or salt or sugar. It’s inevitable, I guess.
Aiyooo… standardlah tu. Just don’t drink the soup. Hehe. Although that’s pretty hard to do. Hahaha!
eh i thot this was like a known fact long time edi?? hahahhaa,,,aiya not sked one la..die die la..eat first!!
Everyone…
*hangs head down in shame and sadness*
I was in serious denial. I knew that they put MSG…but spoons after spoons after spoons….
that just broke my heart.
Oh well… life goes on eh?
As long as your hair don’t start dropping and the soup taste good…what the heck! Drink first lah…
Actually, I alway SAPU all the soup…one drop also “mou-takk-ching” man…
Yeah, that is why our home cooking never taste as good! lol
Eh? I think home cooking is BEST! But.. cannot emulate the hawker food that THEY do la!
It would break my heart if they didn’t! Hahah… there’s nothing I love more than tasty MSG soup!
ask unca/aunty hawker ‘kar liew’ ah….
Are you surprised by this?
Am not.. Tht’s why I try to stick to kon-low most of the time..
Actually there are some vendors who are more passionate about their cooking and they put in more ‘liu’ in the stock.. these are hard to come by though. I get severe migraine if I have too much MSG.. something my body can detect.. but I suspect the threshold is growing..