Everyone has a hidden superhero power. Thai fried chicken vendor Kahn “Iron Hands” Trichan can dunk his hands in boiling oil.
He discovered this ability one day when a squirrel in a tree above his stall dropped a mango into his fryer, splashing him with hot oil. His skin shrugged off the squirrel's hot oil assault.
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Most super powers are pretty useless to their owners. Mine is the ability to randomly shut off streetlights I pass under, although I have no control over it. They just darken in my presence with no rhyme or reason: utterly useless to me and to society at large.
This guy, though–what are the odds that a man and his super power are made for each other?
In terms of food safety with raw chicken, I do hope he washes his hands often. Or would wet hands cause the oil to spatter? I guess he'd be okay with that.
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