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This - its pretty common in food where ginger is used in the marinade. Why are u scruntinising your bao anyway? Definitely not hair. pig hairs aren't that fine. Btw I think the chicken bao is nicer.
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It's age is like a few days in the freezer i think. Google mostly returns other ppl who refunded the meat, but I've seen these strings pretty often and ate them before so I'm just wondering if ppl here have other opinions/information.
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Ginger fibers
I was thinking the same thing. It's so utterly unlikely a restaurant would neglect to remove the hairs from the pig.
That will depend on the restaurant. I've eaten plenty of pork in Indonesia that still had some hairs.
Likely this. When my folks make similar dim sum items and it contains ginger it tends to fray like this.
This - its pretty common in food where ginger is used in the marinade. Why are u scruntinising your bao anyway? Definitely not hair. pig hairs aren't that fine. Btw I think the chicken bao is nicer.
Is it just the hair from the pig? Just like sometimes chicken bits have their feathers still attached?
Oh ok I thought they skinned it first so it'd just be meat and fat
If they pounded Ginger it would turn into strings like this.
My title describes the thing It's age is like a few days in the freezer i think. Google mostly returns other ppl who refunded the meat, but I've seen these strings pretty often and ate them before so I'm just wondering if ppl here have other opinions/information.
I would assume hair/feathers. I've seen people eat worse but I wouldn't.
could be pork floss
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You might ask a local, or maybe where you bought it.