Most fast food restaurants have timers on their meat trays and when they go off, the meat is supposed to be thrown away. When I worked at mcdicks, I personally never threw any meat away. It was against my personal morals. The longest I ever witnessed some meat stay there before being served was about 16 hours. Here’s the story.

Usually in the morning we would put about 2 fillets O’ fish in the warmer and since I (and really most of the employees) never threw away any meat, they would usually at last a few house. This one day, I cooked about 15, which was about how many we would sell in an average day. After my shift was finished, around 4 or something, I checked the fillets o’ fish, there were still about 8 left. Since I lived near the McDicks, I came by when the night shift was finishing up, around 11pm. I asked the shift supervisor if they had cooked any fresh fish that shift. He looked a bit confused and checked the tray. “There are still 3 or 4 in there. I dont need to cook any more”. “Hahahaha” I replied, “I cooked those bitches at 7am! hahaha!” burn.

Before you judge me. People who eat at mcdicks deserve to get food poisoning for being fat ass morons who contribute to deforestation of amazonian rain forest and loss of fish stocks.

Oh, and I served food out of the garbage there too. And spit in the 5-0’s food.

Since when does throwing away trash requires someone to stick her whole arm into the bin, you retard?

So what does that tell us about the Chinese perception of hygiene in the context of what is and is not acceptable?

To my logic if one chef doesn’t care what he does in front of customers then chances are that this is an issue of education and lack of peer pressure (I’ve never seen Chinese customers complaining about spitting or other unpleasant behaviours in restaurants) and consequently if one chef is not educated through training or rectified through peer pressure then most of the others will not be. Whilst I am sure similar things happen wherever you are I would expect these to be more isolated in occurrence and probably deliberate rather than being just an aspect of normal behaviour and therefore somewhat less common.

The good thing about this aspect of China is that at least it seems to make you immune to most other places. To be honest, if the food and the experience is good I don’t really give too much thought to what might have gone on in the kitchen. If I was ‘one of those’ I doubt I would ever eat out anywhere.

its not just in china mate, its everywhere. most chefs are way too busy and grumpy at the constant orders coming in to be giving shit about hygiene.

Enough said.

Come on the Chinese poster’s theory is flawed immediately. Run through the photos in reverse order and it is all perfectly innocent? How often have you see someone throwing away (rather than taking out) with their arm up to the elbow in the bin? I suppose (if the film is real) that she was aesthetically placing the item next to a piece of wilted lettuce and a half eaten bun?

As for hygiene in China.

Guangzou, I had the pleasure of urinating in the men’s toilets next to one of the cooks in the restaurant. I didn’t really expect him to wash his hands, and he certainly didn’t but he did stop at the mirror to examine his face and squeeze a few ripe pimples onto the mirror. He then walked straight back into the kitchen.

Shanghai, a group of us had one of those hovering waitresses that denotes the very best service in China (you know where your plates get taken away before you’ve finished etc). The waitress in question stood behind a couple of friends in clear view of me with her finger half way up her right nostril, clearly struggling to secure and extract something. She only stopped when my colleague suggested that if she was so hungry perhaps she should go and ask for some food in the kitchen. But then added, but make sure you wash your hands before you eat it — the food I mean’. Acute loss of face ensued and we had to find a new waitress; God knows what they might have done to the food after that.

Any city in China — cooking oil recycling via the drains outside restaurants.

Enough said.