Pigs blood in Yong Tau Foo

Finally sold in Singapore. Absent for 27 years

Food prepared with animal blood disappeared from Singapore’s food scene in 1999, following the Nipah virus outbreak in Malaysia in 1998. The outbreak devastated pig farms there, and more than one million pigs had to be culled. The virus, which can be transmitted from animals to humans, also claimed more than 100 lives, including that of an abattoir worker in Singapore.

Supermarkets, including Cold Storage, FairPrice, Giant, Prime and Sheng Siong, started selling it earlier in June. The 400g packs of Pig Blood Curd ($6.95) are from CP Foods, a large farming and food company from Thailand.