Supermarkets in HK have run our of salt...

[megan2008]

Excess sodium is bad, not sure about the iodine. A lot of the salt here isn't iodized, though.

 

[Frenchy]

Ho... so now I understand why there was a couple filling their trolley with 10 soya sauce bottles !! hope the consumption date is in 2013 !!

 

[happyvalleygirl]

Saw a construction worker in my local park n shop purchase 25 bags of salt and the cashier didn't even bat an eyelid.... Actually I'm surprised they had that many on the shelf!

 

[carang]

truly ridiculous..... maybe we could start something about fishballs, then they could clear the shelves of those and make room for some decent food....

 

[penguinsix]

I blogged about it here and made a cute little graph to make it a little easier to understand. I'm off this morning to check on the seaweed supplies as I suspect that will be the next panic-induced shopping rush.

http://penguinsix.com/2011/03/17/hong-kong-panic-buying-salt-due-to-japanese-radiation-fears/

 

[Shenzhennifer]

They mentioned this on the Pearl news last night. Basically due to mass panic on the mainland about winds blowing radiation over this way, they are buying iodinized salt to protect themselves, which is supposed to help prevent radiation sickness. So there you go. Hkers have followed suit. Now, I don't know how soy sauce fits in. Good thing I have an extra bottle in my cupboard. Oh no, wait, it's Japanese soy sauce. We're doomed!

 

[nicolejoy]

What I think is funny is that a lot of people don't even KNOW why they are buying all the salt. I saw on the news they interviewed a bunch of people and they all gave different reasons as to why they "HAD" to buy it. Crazy.

 

[Gracey]

I read that much of it is mainland "dealers" buying tons of salt to resell over the border, same as they do for baby powder.
For what it's worth, the 360 at Elements, Kowloon Station, has plenty of salt. I was just there.

Sigh. You'd have to eat SO MUCH salt to equal one iodine tablet that you'd die of dehydration or hypertension before any radiation could get to you.