#Chinese Supermarket UK

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UK Online Chinese Supermarket - Discover the Flavors of China

If you are looking to add a bit of spice and excitement to your culinary repertoire, then our UK Chinese online supermarket is the place to begin! Whether you are looking to create the comforts of home or you want to add some flavour to your favourite dishes, then HiYou is your one-stop online Chinese supermarket for a huge range of genuine Chinese grocery items in the UK. Buy 100% original groceries with fast delivery!

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Rating food of the countries I've been to, from West to East:

Disclaimer: it's veeery subjective

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Spain🇪🇸 : 7/10. It's okay. I expected their fish and seafood to be better, tho. A LOT of relatively cheap fresh juices, 10/10 for health. They also make surprisingly amazing pasta and surprisingly average paella.

France🇫🇷: 9/10. Never visited cafes or restaurants there, but Carrefour has an incredible variety of good meat. I love their pineapple pie, too. There are a lot of products for vegetarians, Muslims, and, in general, different people who have different eating styles. There's a lot to see. And omg, their bazaar days are something worth attending: I still regret that I never tried clams with white wine.

UK🇬🇧 : 6/10. Not impressed. Something tells me that they deliberately make fish-n-chips that terrible. But I absolutely loved the strawberries under hot chocolate, which was sold by two cheerful Polish girls near Madam Tussaud museum.

Switzerland 🇨🇭: 6/10. Migros has nice buns with spinach and those Japanese "sandwiches", overall, your whole salary is gonna be spent on food. (Lithuania core lol😭) McDonald's there SUCKS.

Norway🇳🇴: 4/10. I expected a lot for some reason. Prices gonna cause you a heart attack, the quality is gonna give you a second heart attack. Also!!! THERE WAS NO FISH IN THE SHOPS EXCEPT THE CANNED!!! I was deeply injured. Norwegian salmon is super popular in Ukraine, how can they not have any normal fish in the big supermarkets...

Germany🇩🇪: 1/10. I may be just unlucky, but every time I visit Germany and pick a random cafe with lots of people(!), it has the worst food I've ever tasted in my life. It's like that scene from Desperate Housewives: "Really? A woman who orders Chinese food for Christmas dinner cooked a pineapple pie?" I understand now why Ukrainian women often marry Germans. My heart bleeds when I see what exactly you eat. I want to cover you with a blanket and cook you a normal soup.

Czech Republic 🇨🇿: 7/10. The soup was nice, ставлю вподобайку👍

Poland🇵🇱 : 8/10. Soup in bread, my beloved. Doughnuts were some kind of overcooked in oil, tho.

Montenegro🇲🇪: 10/10. I love you. I love your salads, your seafood, and I LOVE YOUR LEMON ICECREAM!!!!!

Slovakia🇸🇰: 7/10. I don't really remember what I ate, I am sorry. But I was really impressed with your supermarkets for some reason. Gotta visit it again.

Hungary🇭🇺: 6/10. It was my first time I've ever tried street food, and I liked it. You guys know how to cook meat.

Greece🇬🇷: 7/10. One day, I'll find the guy who can cook Karavidopsiha and beg them to cook it once again. Nice fish!!! I remember your arbutus honey as old women remember their best lovers. But. One time, a man served my family with unpeeled shrimps in batter. :/ What the hell was that? Is that some kind of a national dish I'm not aware of? Minus three points for such bullying.

Cyprus 🇨🇾: 7/10. I shouldn't be obsessed with your carob tree pastille that much.

Lithuania🇱🇹: 10/10. I love you. Although, I'd love to spend less money on food too. I love your Maxima and Rimi and Iki. I love your cafes. I love your bakery, I love your cocktails, I looooooove your soups, and I love your Asian food too. It's very easy to become an alcoholic with such delicious wines and tinctures.

Latvia🇱🇻: 11/10. Oh my god. Oh my god. I'm on my knees. Your cream chanterelle soup and Lidl croissants and marinated onion and šašlyk and fish and dairy products🛐🛐🛐. You guys know how to serve. I've never seen such pretty food designs anywhere. And of course, Lido. It brings me in tears of joy and makes me remember Puzata Hata. No, for real, is there any dish you don't know how to cook?

Finland🇫🇮: 7/10. That's okay. Nice street food.

Belarus ⚪️🔴⚪️: 9/10. Oh my dear Belarus, you're gonna be the best chef in Europe once you're free from russia. I wish I ate more machanka and drank your pine tincture when I had the chance. I love your chicory, it's a bit greyish, but it's much more delicious than an average chicory. Delicious meat in the shops. Other food is soviet-like, which makes me nauseous.

Ukraine 🇺🇦: ♾️/10. Вітчизно моя! Ти як здоров'я, наскільки ти цінна, тільки той знає, хто тебе втратив. I don't know if my favourite shops still work. I loved every single cafe I've been to, yes, even that shitty prorussian Mafia and Eurasia. I loved Puzata Hata. I loved Khlibna Kava, and its amazing cherry cupcakes. I loved Moloko Vid Fermera. I loved little kiosks with fresh Makadamia nuts and huge variety of vegetables and fruits. I loved Flagman and Silpo, Lvivśki croissants, and chocolate shops. I loved my seafood store. I loved giant frappes in Shevchenko Park. I loved my Continent with its old classical French background songs. I love my Japanese food stores. There are so many places I love. I used to find my bazaar so ugly and dirty, but I would give everything to buy the sea ​​buckthorn jam from the cheerful old lady. But it's not gonna happen. My bazaar was shelled by russians to the ground.

Turkey🇹🇷: 9/10. Your Katmer, seafood soup and baked shrimps(?) are something 🛐.

Jordan🇯🇴: 7/10. Nice! You cook paella better than Spain, be proud of yourself. Although, I'd love to not be scared for my life as a woman all the time. Your bazaar seemed very interesting, but unfortunately, I don't speak Arabic. And I am a woman, which also sucks, I guess. I was totally covered in black, except for the face and hair, and people still stared at me like on a zoo exponate. McDonald's kinda sucks too, but not as much as in Switzerland.

Egypt🇪🇬: 7/10. It's okay. I've tasted only hotel food.

Sakartvelo🇬🇪 : 10/10. Our guide forgot about our existence, and we had to find any source of food to not die from hunger, so we went to your local bazaar and asked to fry some cheap fish. It had lots of bones, and I hate fish with bones, but I ate it all, and it tasted amazing.

Saudi Arabia 🇸🇦: 6/10. Most of the week, I just cooked some simple spiceless products like pasta and eggs from the small store. You are far from the level of grocery stores in Turkey. Although, your cold orange juice bottle saved my life from dying in the middle of the desert.

Qazaqstan 🇰🇿: 7/10. I don't really remember your supermarkets, I guess they were okay. But your bazaars are definitely something worth attending. Millions of varieties of honey with millions of tastes and very salty hard cheese Kurt.

[waitineedaname]

idk if you still want uk tips, but here they are if you do:

people will be weird and/or excited about your accent, especially people who live near you

brits love a budget german supermarket, lidl and aldi have a lot of fans in the cost of living crisis

gp visits are a nightmare, and if you're moving from another country there will be LOADS of paperwork, but you should get signed up with a surgery ASAP - also, you can go to the pharmacy for a lot of stuff

queue culture - we love standing in lines

if you don't like tea, don't bother (lots of us don't) but it's a pretty big cultural thing so give it a go (we're such a nation of tea drinkers that the national grid [electricity] has to compensate for the number of kettles we use daily

wear whatever you like - nobody really cares

if you drive, you'll need to retake the test for UK roads

greggs is the iconic lunchtime place for mid tier pastries (sweet and savoury) and lunches

also, pie in the UK is typically savoury, filled with meat and/or veg and gravy

meal deals - a sandwich, crisps/chocolate/another snack, and a drink - are absolutely everywhere and an incredibly common lunch

we love double carbs - chip butty anyone?

fish fingers are such a good food that i don't think americans have? baked beans are nice but you can add spices/flavourings to them

you don't have to like marmite - if you try it, ONLY HAVE A SMALL AMOUNT. any american who puts a full spoon of marmite in their mouth is basically unknowingly undertaking the british cinnamon challenge

basically everywhere has a chippy (fish and chip shop), at least one curry place (thanks, colonisation(!)), and a chinese. curry's almost always good, chippies can vary, and be VERY careful with the chinese, because they're iconic for food poisoning (although absolutely delicious as well)

all restaurants have a food hygiene rating on the front door - 3 or less is questionable

find out if you qualify for any travelcards and get familiar with your local public transport - buses are often late, coaches are typically on time, trains often don't come at all

seriously. don't take the train if you can POSSIBLY help it - it's BONKERS expensive and often cancelled and replaced with a coach

know a bit about uk geography, if poss - lots of usamericans don't seem to know what wales is, or how north and republic of ireland are different

main tv networks are channel 4, itv, sky, and the bbc. c4 & itv are free with ads, sky requires a subscription, and the bbc is free but can only be watched by households with a tv licence (if using iplayer, the bbc's website, you can just lie about this, but there's a whole debate about whether they can/will catch you - look up tv detector vans)

british people end their texts with 'x'. it is NOT FLIRTING, we literally do it to everyone and often you'll get two or three - it's basically a punctuation mark. don't look into it

york specifically is like the north ? with emphasis on the question mark. england has a lot of perceived cultural differences between the north and the south, with the south stereotypically richer, ruder, entitled, busy, unfriendly, and the north stereotypically more rural, insular, prejudiced, and working class. it's not always true, and afaik york's a pretty afluent area, but it's something to be aware of

ahhhhh you are so kind, thank you for sending me all this! unfortunately, I am no longer moving to the uk because I was tragically fucked over by the university, so I'm moving to canada now. but if I ever end up moving to the uk after getting my master's (which is not out of the question!) this advice is incredibly useful, thank you so much for going into such detail, I really appreciate :')

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just re the british chinese food discourse - the british library has this great audio clip and transcript from Woon Wing Yip who came to the UK from Hong Kong in the 1950s - he started out in restaurants & later started a chain of supermarkets. here's their transcript -

Wing Yip discusses Chinese restaurants:

The Chinese restaurant - we came the right time, in the right place and do it right. That's why so many Chinese. Up to the middle sixties, after nine o'clock or in the evening, you go out for a meal, there are two places you go - either you buy fish and chips which closes at ten o'clock, half past ten, or you go into a hotel where the last order is half past nine. Or you could go to Wimpey cafeteria. The Chinese came along, opened a restaurant and we put a carpet down, we put a tablecloth down. Before that restaurant, you only got a carpet and a tablecloth and a waiter service only in hotels, which were beyond ordinary means, ordinary people's means and they close half past nine. And other than that, Wimpey, cup of tea, a bun or fish and chips. The Chinese bring the tablecloth, carpet, lower it and bring the fish restaurant up above it, right hit the niche market. Open eleven o'clock - the pub close half past ten, eleven. The last order in the pub is eleven, we open half past eleven so we hit it. At the right time, doing the right thing and do it right. And for the first time, the British had more money to spend, from middle sixties on. Right hit it on the nail.

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In Yorkshire bread and butter - everyone come in and wanted bread and butter as well. They wanted curry chicken and rice and with bread and butter. Curry, something, bread and butter, mixed grill bread and butter, everything bread and butter. We had a little department attached to the tea and coffee side, got two English ladies that every day for two, three hours, doing bread and butters. You know, for two hours for lunchtime - everybody bread and butter. When the menu, we say 'curry chicken and chips, or rice'. To begin with a lot of people were like 'curry chicken, and chips', not rice - and bread and butter. The chef made the curry sauce, the chef buy the curry powders, and with the other few powders, get together spices, put the onions, orange peel everything, they boiled it for hours, mixed them. Very good.

What other things were on the menu?

Half Chinese, half English. Mixed grill, fillet steak, pork chop, omelettes. No Chinese restaurant outside London would not have English menu because they're still in the process of changing. That's why the Chinese do it right - we can not say in 50s, 60s and 70s, say you had had Chinese food. Say 4 people come in, if 3 of them want Chinese, 1 do Chinese, the second has omelette or salad or something. We do it right, we don't insist to say you have to have Chinese. Food is a culture, food is a culture - you cannot change people in one year. In those days, in those days in the 50s, I think a lot of people never had Chinese food before. They go in the Chinese restaurant because the other English restaurant close at half past nine, their last order, so they came out after half past nine they go to Chinese restaurant and they ask for mixed grill - in Yorkshire mixed grill is very popular.

Did people ever make negative comments about Chinese food at that time?

Oh yes, they say a lot of things, they say a lot - the main thing, we're standing outside, there's a menu, they say 'sweet and sour pork', everybody think, 'sweet and sour pork? Sweet and sour?' They are very sarcastic. They couldn't understand how can a thing be sweet and sour at the same time. Until they taste it - it is.

[starrywangxian]

british chinese takeaways

saw a tiktok about someone being very curious about how british people eat chinese food and it was kind of funny to see someone so genuinely confused about things that are very normal to me.

to answer her (very reasonable) questions, yes we do say "i'm going for an italian/greek/mexican/chinese" instead of saying i'm going to eat italian food because here we say a chinese takeaway or a chinese restaurant so we just drop the takeaway/restaurant which leaves "a chinese". we also say things like "i went to an italian" or "there's a nice italian here" instead of saying i went to an italian restaurant or there's a nice italian restaurant. it's just a way to shorten it and it's completely normal. no one takes offense to it in the uk because it's just slang, we all know you're talking about food and restaurants/takeaways etc. so there's no need to specify it ig.

also yes, we eat a lot of chips with everything. potatoes are our staple food and the stereotype that british people love chips is not completely false lmao. it's very common for chinese, indian takeaways etc. to sell chips with their food. i don't eat chicken myself but yes chicken balls are also common for chinese takeaways. they're like boneless balls of chicken that are deep fried. it's very common to have chicken balls with sweet and sour sauce, too.

^^ this is what they tend to look like although the batter can be a darker brown sometimes.

a lot of restaurants will also even have an "english menu" (sometimes it will genuinely be called the english menu or something to that effect).

^^ here's what a chinese take-away menu might look like - notice the "english dishes" section at the top!

we also love curry sauce, and chips with curry sauce is actually amazing! it's like gravy but it tastes like curry lmao. you can even buy "chip shop curry sauce" mixes and granuales in supermarkets lol. you should definitely try it!!

^^ here's a chip shop curry sauce mix made by bisto which also makes gravy!

it's important to note that these places are in britain so they'll have typical meals that most british people will like to cover their basis, if that makes sense? this is a fusion of british and chinese food and most chinese takeaways are owned and run by british chinese people so it's a way to combine those two cuisines, so it will naturally look different to american chinese food and authentic chinese food.

that being said, we do have authentic restaurants that make actual food the proper way but those are mainly in cities as compared to the countryside or small towns. so we do eat hot pot! and actual curries! but it's not as often as having takeaways.

a lot of these takeaways in the countryside and towns may also be the closest takeaway to you so instead of going further away to get a fish and chip meal, someone may just order fish and chips from a chinese takeaway that's closer.

also idk if this is just me but she seemed to be mentioning restaurants a lot in the original tiktok and most of the people she stitched were eating takeaways. in the uk, we have small shops that only do takeaways (or take out) so there's no where for you to sit and eat in the restaurant. you order, you go to the shop to collect it or it's delivered to your house and you eat it at home (and yes i could tell from the videos because of the containers and stuff lol).

i hope that answered everything and taught you something if you didn't know before!

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Courbevoie City Tour Guide France Holiday Destination

About Courbevoie City destination: Courbevoie is a suburb of the Paris city in France country, Europe. Courbevoie suburb is a good destination to explore local French people social modern life style.

Distance from Courbevoie: Courbevoie suburb city is very well jointed to other France regional places via air, train and road transport. Courbevoie suburb city is just 9.8 KM distance from Paris city centre, Reims city is just 163.7 KM distance, Amiens city is just 138.0 KM distance, Orleans city is just 133.1 KM distance, Le Mans city is just 209.0 KM distance and Le Havre coastal city is just 189.5 KM distance.

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How can come to Courbevoie: Courbevoie is a suburb of the Paris city in France country, Europe. Courbevoie suburb city is very well connected to other European countries and France regional places via air, train and road transport. other countries people can come to Courbevoie (Paris city) via air transport where has two international airports.

Air Transport:  Paris Charles de Gaulle International airport is the busiest international airport of the Paris city where passengers can get air flights to other overseas countries.

Paris Airport-Le Bourget International airport is the second international airport of the Paris city where passengers can get air flights to other foreign countries and France native places also.

Water Transport: Courbevoie suburb city is not a coastal or port city where has not water transport services to other overseas countries and France native places. But people can boating and other water sports into the Seine River.

Train Transport:  Gare du Nord is the busiest international railway station of the France country where passengers can get train transport to other European cities and France regional places.

Courbevoie City tourists attractions: Courbevoie suburb city city has lots of modern and historical places to visit which some are Parc de Becon - Park, Sports Area Jean-Pierre Rives - Sports complex, Parc des Bruyeres - City park, Aquatic Center Colombes - Aquatic centre, Marcel Payen Sports Complex, Pont de Levallois - Bridge, Intermarche - Supermarket, Square Silvain - Park, Paroisse Saint Maurice de Becon - Catholic church, Stade Olympique Yves du Manoir - Stadium, Parc Pierre Lagravere - Park, Louis Vuitton Foundation - Art museum, Parc Bagatelle - la Roseraie - Garden, Bois de Boulogne - Park, Roland Garros Stadium - Sports complex, National Estate of Saint-Cloud - State park etc.

Courbevoie City famous Restaurants & accommodations: Courbevoie suburb city has several modern and luxury hotels to stay. Courbevoie suburb city some popular restaurants are Bistro d'Edouard - Esplanade de la Defense - Restaurant, IT - Italian Trattoria La Defense - Fast food restaurant, Le Tournesol - Haute French restaurant, So Thai - Thai restaurant, Sha Village - Chinese restaurant, The arts - Restaurant, Brasao - Restaurant, Pizza Ottima's - Au Feu de Bois - Pizza restaurant, Laser World La Defense - Laser tag center, Restaurant Istanbul - Turkish restaurant, L'Atelier - Restaurant, Asian Touch - Restaurant, Aux Delices Parisiens Colombes, Bubble Vib’s Bubble Tea et waffle sucre - Restaurant, The Ranch Restaurant Colombes - Halal restaurant etc.

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This was a flippant comment out of exasperation but I have much more to say on this.

If you had to design a perfect testing and proliferation environment for the next pandemic, you literally could not do much more than what factory farms already do. These are environments where thousands of animals are kept in filthy, crowded environments and are fed antibiotics to avoid the illnesses that would naturally result from these environments.

Emergent pathogens have multiple opportunities to jump between individuals, and between species. At the end of this process, they also have a guaranteed opportunity to make it into the human food chain, in large volumes. A single factory farm can raise and kill 500,000 animals in a year. Now imagine an antibiotic-resistant disease emerging in one of these facilities. We all play lip service to the idea that factory farming is bad and we should avoid it, but in reality, that is where the vast majority of us are getting our meat, dairy and eggs from. Almost all fast food, almost all meat in all western supermarkets, most chickens are factory farmed, and almost all pigs are. All told, it is estimated that 99% of animals in the US are factory farmed. The figures in the rest of the Western world and much of Asia are better, but quickly getting worse.

When we talk about antibiotic resistance, we think of our doctors refusing to prescribe antibiotics for common illnesses unless there is no other option. However, an estimated 73% of all antibiotics worldwide are used in agriculture. That is where antibiotics are failing, and that is where pathogens are getting the opportunity to adapt to antibiotic use. Back in 2015, Chinese, British, and US universities announced in the journal Lancet Infectious Diseases that they had identified a new form of resistance, to the very last-ditch drug colistin—and that it is present in both farmed animals and people, probably comes from agricultural use of that drug, can move easily among bacteria, and may already be spreading across borders. In our waterways here in the UK, we have already found strains of bacteria that can no longer be treated by common drugs.

Clearly, it isn't just within these facilities where the risk lies. A recent report by Environmental Working Group found that more than 200 million Americans—more than half of the people in the US—are exposed to contaminated drinking water due to fertilizer pollution. The estimated clean water costs to taxpayers are more than $2 billion per year. On top of that, dumping animal manure on crops, as well as agricultural run-off, is what causes these e-coli outbreaks we see at least a dozen times a year.

Despite this, we are still not taking action, since animal agriculture interests wield huge influence through propaganda and corporate lobbying. An essay in the American Journal of Public Health commented that “changing the way humans treat animals – most basically, ceasing to eat them or, at the very least, radically limiting the quantity of them that are eaten – is largely off the radar as a significant preventive measure.”

We are sleepwalking towards a public health crisis. The research is absolutely clear; if we do not radically reduce or eliminate our consumption of animals, the next pandemic will be a case of when, not if. If you are concerned about this too, the first step is to stop giving your money to the corporations behind it.

i feel like i'm watching a car crash in slow motion

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‘Italian’ purees in UK supermarkets likely to contain Chinese forced-lab...

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‘Italian’ purees likely to contain Chinese forced-labour tomatoes

Getty Images “Italian” tomato purees sold by several UK supermarkets appear to contain tomatoes grown and picked in China using forced labour, the BBC has found. Some have “Italian” in their name such as Tesco’s “Italian Tomato Purée”. Others have “Italian” in their description, such as Asda’s double concentrate which says it contains “Puréed Italian grown tomatoes” – and Waitrose’s “Essential…

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They do make these.

They'll set off your carbon monoxide alarm.

But they do make them

Everyone always talks about flying cars this and flying cars that.

When the only futuristic gadget I want that doesn't exist yet when it SHOULD are those cup noodles from Cowboy bebop where you just pull the tag at the bottom of it and the noodles are instantly warmed.

where is the future I was promised?

[hiyouuk]

<> If you have never been to a Chinese Supermarkets , whether online or in person, it can be quite daunting at first! There are so many new and familiar products on offer that are native to Asian cuisine and culture, that if you haven’t seen or used them before, understating the products at a Chinese market can be confusing! With so much to choose from it can take a while to understand just how versatile your weekly shop from the Chinese online supermarket can be, but it won’t take long for HiYou to become your new favourite place to shop.

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Getty Images“Italian” tomato purees sold by several UK supermarkets appear to contain tomatoes grown and picked in China using forced labour, the BBC has found.Some have “Italian” in their name such as Tesco’s “Italian Tomato Purée”. Others have “Italian” in their description, such as Asda’s double concentrate which says it contains “Puréed Italian grown tomatoes” - and Waitrose’s “Essential Tomato Purée”, describing itself as “Italian tomato puree”.A total of 17 products, most of them own-brands sold in UK and German retailers, are likely to contain Chinese tomatoes - testing commissioned by the BBC World Service shows.Most Chinese tomatoes come from Xinjiang province, where their production is linked to forced labour by Uyghur and other largely Muslim minorities. The UN accuses the Chinese state - which views these minorities as a security risk - of torture and abuse. China denies it forces people to work in the tomato industry and says workers’ rights are protected by law. It says the UN report is based on “disinformation and lies”.All the supermarkets whose products we tested dispute our findings.AlamyChina grows most of its tomatoes in the province of XinjiangChina grows about a third of the world’s tomatoes. The north-western province of Xinjiang has the perfect climate for growing the fruit. It is also where China began a programme of mass detentions in 2017. Human rights groups allege more than a million Uyghurs have been detained in hundreds of facilities, which China has termed “re-education camps”.The BBC has spoken to 14 people who say they endured or witnessed forced labour in Xinjiang’s tomato fields over the past 16 years. “[The prison authorities] told us the tomatoes would be exported overseas,” Ahmed (not his real name) said, adding that if the workers did not meet the quotas - as much as 650kg a day - they would be shocked with electric prods.Mamutjan, a Uyghur teacher who was imprisoned in 2015 for an irregularity in his travel documentation, says he was beaten for failing to meet the high tomato quotas expected of him.“In a dark prison cell, there were chains hanging from the ceiling. They hung me up there and said ‘Why can’t you finish the job?’ They beat my buttocks really hard, hit me in the ribs. I still have marks.”Mamutjan, who picked tomatoes in detention, says he was hung from the ceiling of his cell as punishment for not picking enough of the fruitIt is hard to verify these accounts, but they are consistent, and echo evidence in a 2022 UN report which reported torture and forced labour in detention centres in Xinjiang. By piecing together shipping data from around the world, the BBC discovered how most Xinjiang tomatoes are transported into Europe - by train through Kazakhstan, Azerbaijan and into Georgia, from where they are shipped onwards to Italy.One company name repeatedly appeared as a recipient in the data. This was Antonio Petti, part of a group of major tomato-processing firms in Italy. It received more than 36 million kg of tomato paste from the company Xinjiang Guannong and its subsidiaries between 2020 and 2023, the data showed.The Petti group produces tomato goods under its own name, but also supplies others to supermarkets across Europe who sell them as their own branded products.Our investigation tested 64 different tomato purees sold in the UK, Germany and the US - comparing them in a lab to samples from China and Italy. They included top Italian brands and supermarket own-brands, and many were produced by Petti.We asked Source Certain, a world-renowned origin verification firm based in Australia, to investigate whether the origin claims on the purees’ labels were accurate. The company began by building what its CEO Cameron Scadding calls a “fingerprint” which is unique to a country of origin - analysing the trace elements which the tomatoes absorb from local water and rocks.“The first objective for us was to establish what the underlying trace element profile would look like for China, and [what] a likely profile would look like for Italy. We found they were very distinct,” he said.Source Certain then compared those country profiles with the 64 tomato purees we wanted to test - the majority of which claimed to contain Italian tomatoes or gave the impression they did - and a few which did not make any origin claim.The lab results suggested many of these products did indeed contain Italian tomatoes - including all those sold in the US, top Italian brands including Mutti and Napolina, and some German and UK supermarket own-brands, including those sold by Sainsbury's and Marks & Spencer.But 17 appeared to contain Chinese tomatoes, 10 of which are made by Petti - the Italian company we found listed repeatedly in international shipping records.Of those 10 made by Petti, these were for sale in UK supermarkets at the time of testing from April-August 2024:These were for sale in German supermarkets, during our testing period:In response, all the supermarkets said they took these allegations very seriously and have carried out internal investigations which found no evidence of Chinese tomatoes. Many have also disputed the testing methodology used by our experts. Tesco suspended supply and Rewe immediately withdrew the products. Waitrose, Morrisons, Edeka and Rewe said they had run their own tests, and that the results contradicted ours and did not show the presence of Chinese tomatoes in the products.But one major retailer has admitted to using Chinese tomatoes. Lidl told us they were in another version of its Baresa Tomatenmark - made by the Italian supplier Giaguaro - sold in Germany last year “for a short time” because of supply problems and that they are investigating this. Giaguaro said all its suppliers respected workers' rights and it is currently not using Chinese tomatoes in Lidl products. The BBC understands the tomatoes were supplied by the Xinjiang company Cofco Tunhe, which the US sanctioned in December last year for forced labour.In 2021, one of the Petti group’s factories was raided by the Italian military police on suspicion of fraud - it was reported by the Italian press that Chinese and other foreign tomatoes were passed off as Italian.But a year after the raid, the case was settled out of court. Petti denied the allegations about Chinese tomatoes and the issue was dropped.As part of our investigation into Petti, a BBC undercover reporter posed as a businessman wanting to place a large order with the firm. Invited to tour a company factory in Tuscany by Pasquale Petti, the General Manager of Italian Food, part of the Petti group, our reporter asked him if Petti used Chinese tomatoes.“Yes… In Europe no-one wants Chinese tomatoes. But if for you it’s OK, we will find a way to produce the best price possible, even using Chinese tomatoes,” he said.Petti sent us what it said was its last invoice from Xinjiang Guannong (l) dated October 2020, but our undercover reporter spotted a label on a barrel sent to Petti dated August 2023 The reporter’s undercover camera also captured a crucial detail - a dozen blue barrels of tomato paste lined up inside the factory. A label visible on one of them read: “Xinjiang Guannong Tomato Products Co Ltd, prod date 2023-08-20.”In its response to our investigation, the Petti group told us it had not bought from Xinjiang Guannong since that company was sanctioned by the US for using forced labour in 2020, but did say that it had regularly purchased tomato paste from a Chinese company called Bazhou Red Fruit. This firm “did not engage in forced labour”, Petti told us. However our investigation has found that Bazhou Red Fruit shares a phone number with Xinjiang Guannong, and other evidence, including shipping data analysis, suggests that Bazhou is its shell company.Petti added that: “In future we will not import tomato products from China and will enhance our monitoring of suppliers to ensure compliance with human and workers’ rights.”While the US has introduced strict legislation to ban all Xinjiang exports, Europe and the UK take a softer approach, allowing companies simply to self-regulate to ensure forced labour is not used in supply chains.This is now set to change in the EU, which has committed to stronger laws, says Chloe Cranston, from the NGO Anti-Slavery International. But she warns this will make it even more likely that the UK will become “a dumping ground” for forced labour products.“The UK Modern Slavery Act, sadly, is utterly not fit for purpose,” she says.A spokesperson for the UK Department for Business and Trade told us: “We are clear that no company in the UK should have forced labour in its supply chain… We keep our approach to how the UK can best tackle forced labour and environmental harms in supply chains under continual review and work internationally to enhance global labour standards.”Dario Dongo, journalist and food lawyer, says the findings expose a wider problem - “the true cost of food".“So when we see [a] low price we have to question ourselves. What is behind that? What is the true cost of this product? Who is paying for that?”

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Fed, BoE double cut, Sterling rebounds, UK100 mixed

UK blue chips ended lower on Thursday as investors digested a slew of corporate news, assessed a rate cut by the Bank of England (BoE), and awaited the latest policy announcement from the Federal Reserve in the wake of Donald Trump’s victory in Tuesday’s US Presidential election.

As expected, the BoE’s Monetary Policy Committee (MPC) voted by eight to one to reduce UK interest rates by 25 basis points to 4.75%. It was the second cut so far this year, after the MPC trimmed rates for the first time in over four years in August. The MPC kept rates on hold at 5.0% at its last meeting in September.

Thursday's cut was widely anticipated after a surprise drop in UK inflation in September to 1.7%, the lowest rate for more than three years and below the BoE's 2.0% target.

The latest data showed UK house prices hit record highs in October. Mortgage lender Halifax said that house prices rose by 0.2% last month following a 0.3% increase in September. Year-on-year, prices were up 3.9% in October following a 4.6% rise the month before. The average price of a UK home increased to £293,999 last month, up from £293,305 in September.

On currency markets, ahead of the US rate decision, sterling was up 0.8% against the dollar at 1.2982 and added 0.1% versus the euro at 1.2017 bolstered by the UK rate move.

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After the London close, US rate-setters also decided to ease monetary policy by 25 basis points, as expected. However, the Fed shied away from providing any further forward guidance until the new Trump administration's policies are known and could be modelled.

At the close in London, the blue-chip FTSE 100 index was down 0.3% at 8,140, although the broader FTSE 250 index managed to gain 0.9% to 20,635.

Among the blue-chip fallers, BT Group shed 3.6% as the telecoms giant downgraded its full-year revenue guidance, pointing to both its non-UK operations and a competitive retail environment as the cause.

Supermarket giant Sainsbury’s fell 4.1% after its underlying retail earnings before interest and tax in the first half came in at £503mln, below the company compiled consensus of £516mln.

Other blue-chip fallers after results included engines maker Rolls Royce, down 3.7%, insurer Hiscox, off 3.6%, and media group Auto Trader which lost 7.2%.

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On the upside engineer IMI was the biggest FTSE 100 gainer, up 5.4% as it hailed a resilient third-quarter performance and reaffirmed its full-year adjusted earnings per share guidance.

Miners were also higher as metal prices increased after Chinese exports rose a strong 13% year-on-year in October, more than double the 5% increase analysts had predicted. Antofagasta rose 4.8%, Anglo American gained 3.6% and Rio Tinto added 3.1%.

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Day I don’t care cos

I’m on holiday but it is Saturday. It was meant to be a nice sunny day but someone forgot to tell the clouds, in fact it really looked like it would rain but it didn’t rain on us - yay.

So managed to sleep until just before 7am so pretty much a sleep in, good for a Saturday morning. No run today as we planned a couple of walks, and rest day is always good. After breakfast headed out to Old Harry’s Cliffs, which is somewhere Nick hadn’t been. Probably wandered for about 6km, stopping and looking at the views of the cliffs and over the landscape. Not many people out when we started at 9:30 but definitely a few more as we headed back to the car at 11:30, as it started raining as we got back to the car we did feel a bit sorry for those who were out on the cliffs.

We headed back for light lunch a Grandads having stopped and got bread at the market and milk from horridly busy supermarket, which seemed to be filled with people who didn’t know how to self check out or who needed to be ID’ed for purchases and no staff around to do that - I wonder when the self checkouts fill be able scan ID and check the photo against the purchaser?

After lunch and the boys (Grandad and Nick) having a snooze we headed to see Pam. We all went down the Quay to feed the swans and ducks, and Nick got shat on by a seagull - not sure he sees this as been an omen of good luck. But I am sorry to say it made me laugh.

Very hard to know what to say and discuss with Pam, and it certainly is a challenging situation for them both - it is a big ask that Grandad visits each day but also must be jolly boring and repetitive for Pam in the home.

We spend about an hour down at the quay and then Nick and I head out with Jill to the Blue Pool, which is favourite place for a wander. We saw deer, and it was really peaceful to just stand and watch them. Again we avoided the rain and spend our time putting the world to rights and wondering when we might win lotto.

Back to Grandads and David came over and it was Chinese takeaways for tea, Nick brought beers and shared.

I have done first draft of my Te Reo assignment due next Sunday, missed my class last week due to being in the flight to UK - probably not the most creative excuse.

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大家好! Sun's out, legs out, for this workout devout! After an independent review found that Israel had not provided proof to support its allegations that thousands of UNRWA staff are linked to terror groups, the EU is calling for countries which cut funding to UNRWA, such as the US and UK, to resume funding. The US is refusing until it sees 'real progress', although what this means is anyone's guess. Meanwhile, Gaza remains at high risk of famine, especially in the North. Singapore is once again lending a helping hand. For the first time, our country is deploying Red Cross civilian volunteers to assist with ongoing relief operations. This latest tranche of support is valued at US$600million, no small feat for a nation the size of a full stop!

Time for another popular Southeast Asian dish, available mainly in Singapore and Malaysia - bak kut teh (literally translated as pork bone tea, essentially pork rib soup). The Malaysian version is known here as the 'Klang version' although whether it originated from the Klang Valley, I'm not sure. Their broth is more herbal, brewed with Chinese herbs. Ours is a clear soup flavoured with spices, lots of garlic and white pepper. When done well, the meat is so tender, it falls off the bone, as mine did. There were also fu pi (tofu skin) and pork balls in my bowl. The dish is usually eaten with rice or dough fritters so as to absorb the flavourful broth. This was my lunch on a cold rainy day this week and it was mega satisfying! To me, ge you qian qiu (each has its merits), I can't pick a favourite between the Klang version and ours.

This week, I watched a news report about how millions in the UK are in paid employment but struggle to make ends meet. 1 woman was in constant tears, whining about penny pinching and applying superglue to shoes instead of buying new ones. The camera panned to her making butter and cheese toasts for herself and a family member. I wondered why she's crying so much. Would she like to trade places with a Palestinian in Gaza? She has a home, lives in relative safety and enjoys grilled butter and cheese toasts. Palestinians live in crowded tents without clean water and many have just 1 meal a day.

If I don't sound sympathetic, that's because I'm not and won't apologise for it. Lots of people all over the world watch their spending now that prices of just about everything is much higher. Instead of being grateful for a full belly, a roof over her head, clean water and not fearing for her life everyday, it seems like she's taking the opportunity to throw a pity party for herself. To those residing in the UK who think they should not have to go to a community shop instead of a supermarket, get real, yes you have to. Or you could spend a week in Gaza fearing for your life, not having any community shops to buy cheap groceries from and maybe you'll wonder why your country continues to arm Israel.

Given Netanyahu's comments about protests at US' universities against this genocidal war in Gaza and the US' response, I'm beginning to wonder if the US refers to the United States of Israel or United States of America. Maybe it's time to refer to USA as USI instead. After all, it's Israel calling the shots in a country proclaiming to be the most powerful in the world. Powerful meh (colloquial speak for powerful, really)? If it were really powerful, it would be the USI telling Israel the terms rather than the other way around. 下次见!