Chinese cities reporting average highs of 38 degrees Celsius
An extreme heatwave in China has caused live shrimp purchased at a supermarket to be ‘cooked’ alive in the bag they were carried home in due to the high temperatures.
On Saturday, a woman, surnamed Fang, from Xinyang in central China’s Henan province, discovered the crustaceans dead in their water-filled bag less than an hour after purchase.
She bought the shrimp around 9am and arrived home less than an hour later. Several had turned bright red as if they’d been cooked in boiling water as the temperature hit 41 degrees Celsius that day.
“When I bought them, they were very fresh — all were alive and kicking,” Fang told Bailu Video.
“It was probably the hot weather. I once put the bag on the ground which was scalding. I also placed them on the back seat of my electric bike and it was boiling hot at that time.
An extreme heatwave in China has caused live shrimp purchased at a supermarket to be ‘cooked’ alive in the bag they…
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