# Is buying meat from an Asian supermarket safe?

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-buying-meat-from-an-asian-supermarket-safe/668782>\
**Category:** In My Humble Opinion\
**Created:** [September 13, 2013, 6:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-buying-meat-from-an-asian-supermarket-safe/668782 "2013-09-13T18:16:54Z")\
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**Author:** ![TashaKitty](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/d26b3c/32.png) [@TashaKitty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TashaKitty)\
**Post date:** [September 17, 2013, 4:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-buying-meat-from-an-asian-supermarket-safe/668782/41 "2013-09-17T16:30:01Z")

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> [@zoid](#):
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> I can get pigs feet a t a number of places. But what I cant find is raw hocks. Why does every damn ham hock have to be smoked? Finding an unprocessed hock is like finding the freaking Holy Grail around here.

Go to your nearest Asian supermarket. In addition to raw pig trotters (which, at least in MA, you can’t get anywhere else) they have raw hocks and all sorts of crazy parts.

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**Author:** ![Machine\_Elf](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/82dd89/32.png) [@Machine\_Elf](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Machine_Elf)\
**Post date:** [September 17, 2013, 5:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-buying-meat-from-an-asian-supermarket-safe/668782/42 "2013-09-17T17:38:34Z")

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I don’t recommend buying [this particular meat,](http://postimg.org/image/9xhibu8z5/) seeing as how it appears to have been handled quite a bit. (spotted at Uwajimaya in Seattle, July 2013)

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**Author:** ![Colophon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/f05b48/32.png) [@Colophon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Colophon)\
**Post date:** [September 17, 2013, 6:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-buying-meat-from-an-asian-supermarket-safe/668782/43 "2013-09-17T18:33:07Z")

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> [@TashaKitty](#):
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> about 40 hours at a rolling boil

I think you may have your recipes mixed up. That was my granny’s recipe for Christmas sprouts.

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