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CNY @ Shark Fin soup galore....
« on: January 12, 2012, 11:15:23 AM »

Hye peeps, as in Malaysia, the CNY season is around the corner..shark fin soups consumption is surely increasing during these period...

Q :
 1) how do we do something on it?
 2) how do we educate people around our surroundings on this
 3) is saying no to shark fin during a yamChaa dinner enough?

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my small steps  [-(
1) ever since interested in scuba diving around 2008(although i didnt start diving till 2011)....i just across the shark fin story/issue...since then ive never consumed shark fin anymore...better late then never right...

2) just changed my fb profile pic to some anti shark find during this CNY..i know..i just have 1000 friends :( hope somebody notices...

3) i also wrote a few times in my travel logbook regarding anti shark finning.....

4) whenever im invited/joining a dinner or gala or something, i'll ask about the shark fin in the menu..

thats basically all ive done........... im sure there much to be done..besides signing petitions n all :)

lets discuss  ;)


p/s I've just come write this article this morning, feel free to share and comment ->
 say-no-to-shark-fin-soup-this-chinese-new-year
 
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Re: CNY @ Shark Fin soup galore....
« Reply #1 on: January 12, 2012, 12:14:44 PM »

1. Go to every Chinese restaurant
2. Ask if they serve real sharks fin
3. Make a list with the name of the restaurant and date that you asked
4. Post the list

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Re: CNY @ Shark Fin soup galore....
« Reply #2 on: January 12, 2012, 01:59:03 PM »

1. Go to every Chinese restaurant
2. Ask if they serve real sharks fin
3. Make a list with the name of the restaurant and date that you asked
4. Post the list
wow, n where is this list bro! im interested + would love to repost on my travel logbook sometime :)

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Re: CNY @ Shark Fin soup galore....
« Reply #3 on: January 12, 2012, 06:57:38 PM »

Ate shark fin soup twice in my life i think. I stop eat shark find soup since scuba diving last year. Scuba diving really educate me to appricieate marine lifes and nature more.

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Re: CNY @ Shark Fin soup galore....
« Reply #4 on: January 12, 2012, 09:28:03 PM »

I think the posting anti shark fin to profile pic is good idea. stand as a campaign like the 'bersih' campaign, and could ask diver friend and shark lover to post it to their profile for a period.

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Re: CNY @ Shark Fin soup galore....
« Reply #5 on: January 15, 2012, 07:21:18 AM »

any good youtube videos to share? i want to share it before attending a CNY dinner tonight of a car club that i join....there will be 50 pax ++ and if i only can educate a few, then it will be great :)

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Re: CNY @ Shark Fin soup galore....
« Reply #6 on: January 15, 2012, 01:20:15 PM »

any good youtube videos to share? i want to share it before attending a CNY dinner tonight of a car club that i join....there will be 50 pax ++ and if i only can educate a few, then it will be great :)

tq



Hans have you see this video by Chef Gordon Ramsay about Shark Fin Soup. Good video.



And here the full version of above video.



The important note that I can extract from this video are:
1- The soup is mixed with chicken and pork stock to flavor the shark fin soup.
2- The shark fin is actually have no flavor. Taste like a Glass Noodle - Bihun or Laksa.
3 -So the fin is not the main ingredient that make the soup great.
4- It is the expensive soup in the world and indirectly represent the symbol of wealth status.
5- Fins are 5% of the shark body part that "valuable". Other 95% is worthless, they throw it away back to sea.
6- Some some shark fin consumers are not aware of this endangered species.
7- 60% reduction of shark population within 9 years !! Just in 9 years we lose 60% of shark population !!
8- They don't care what about the species, as long it is a shark.
9- Hammerhead shark only giving birth once a year and took many years to be matured. Been killed before they can be reproduce.
10 - USD2/kilo for the shark meat and USD28/kilo for the shark fins directly from fisherman before middleman.
11-  thresher shark meat used as a bait.
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[size=78%]It's estimated that each year 100 million sharks are killed worldwide[/size][/color]

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Re: CNY @ Shark Fin soup galore....
« Reply #7 on: January 16, 2012, 11:11:45 AM »

thanks zaff1984

yesterday, somehow someone told me, starting next year on wards..the CNY dinner for the car club that i join will not have Shark Fin soup anymore...but its yet to be confirmed...........at least my simple shout out was heard  B-)

permission to edit/ repost the above info in my travel logbook  :icon_rr:

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Re: CNY @ Shark Fin soup galore....
« Reply #8 on: January 16, 2012, 04:26:10 PM »

thanks zaff1984

yesterday, somehow someone told me, starting next year on wards..the CNY dinner for the car club that i join will not have Shark Fin soup anymore...but its yet to be confirmed...........at least my simple shout out was heard  B-)

permission to edit/ repost the above info in my travel logbook  :icon_rr:



Feel free to share... :) Post the video on your FB wall..

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Re: CNY @ Shark Fin soup galore....
« Reply #9 on: January 20, 2012, 02:21:25 PM »

thanks zaff1984

yesterday, somehow someone told me, starting next year on wards..the CNY dinner for the car club that i join will not have Shark Fin soup anymore...but its yet to be confirmed...........at least my simple shout out was heard  B-)

permission to edit/ repost the above info in my travel logbook  :icon_rr:



Feel free to share... :) Post the video on your FB wall..
I've come out with this article or post -> say-no-to-shark-fin-soup-this-chinese-new-year  B-)

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Re: CNY @ Shark Fin soup galore....
« Reply #10 on: January 20, 2012, 03:07:50 PM »

thanks zaff1984

yesterday, somehow someone told me, starting next year on wards..the CNY dinner for the car club that i join will not have Shark Fin soup anymore...but its yet to be confirmed...........at least my simple shout out was heard  B-)

permission to edit/ repost the above info in my travel logbook  :icon_rr:



Feel free to share... :) Post the video on your FB wall..
I've come out with this article or post -> say-no-to-shark-fin-soup-this-chinese-new-year  B-)



Good one I will share it on my wall.