Banquet foodcourt gets a “D” grading from me.

I often go to Causeway Point with my family for dinner and sometimes I visit the Banquet foodcourt for Char Kuay Teow.  However, what peeve me off, is that the cook at the Char Kuay Teow stall persist in using a plastic plate to scoop the food from the blazing hot wok.  I reminded the cooks there a few times when I last visited the stall and often got dazed look like “As if I care” or “you are speaking to the wrong person”.

Another strange thing there is that hot drinks stall there uses a large plastic jug to make Milo.  The woman would pour boiling hot water in the plastic jug, purely not meant for “boiling hot” water and then dispense to unwitting customers.  By the way, most of those customers there who drink Milo are usually kids and elderly.

I am not sure how the Ministry of Environment or Health Ministry does their grading for food stalls in terms of food preparations.

Amongst those pet peeves that we should be concern and widely practised here are:

a.  Vegetables not washed.   Mostly at “Chay Chye Png” or Mixed Vegetable/Rice stalls.

b.   Stall holders uses flimsy plastic gloves to hold onto just fried stuff like Indian Rojak, “Ngoh Siang”,  Fried Chicken etc.  I am not sure if the plastic glove actually melts into the food.

c.    Using styrofoam to pack just fried food stuff.  Try visiting the nasi lemak staff at Lorong Ah Soo and due to the long queue for the piping hot fried fish, which the owner simply stash ontop of the rice before flipping the styrofoam cover, you can actually see the fish melting away the plastic before your eyes.

d.  Use of toxic paint to mark the glass coffee cups at food centres and coffee shops.  I wonder why the health inspectors are not doing anything.  Why can’t someone comes up with coloured glass handle rather than allow the stall owners to indiscriminately use toxic material like paints, cellophane tapes etc.   Is there really something wrong with our education system.  Or are we only focus on doing all the wrong things, like exploiting others who are different from us to make money.

Wake Up Please!!

Mikey