Nowadays i don't trust any food cooked from restaurant, cafe or what so ever unseen behind the kitchen. Recently i went to the hospital where my sister work and i notice there's more and more people hit by cancer, breast cancer, ulser, cronic stomach and intenstine diseases and worse got this picture of your guts came out from anus....eewww.. I can't stand how such people at the hospital could handle such gross stuff. Looking at the background of the patient mostly they actively having meal outside. Not only that sometimes even the packed food or premade from factory have such illegal stuff to make the food taste good. There a businessman mentioned to me when it comes to thumb rules making profit in food business. "Money matters, make tasty food let customer be happy.. at the end of the day no ones really cares what happens at the end because it not my problem..money man, money". That words echoed in my ear for long time everytime i wanted to have meal outside.
How make sure your meal is safe to consume? TIPS:
- When you buy a meal make sure they cook infront of you so you can see live what they add on your food like at the burger stall where you can see clearly.
- Buy drinks from a sealed can like cola, 7-up, 100 plus or anything that is sealed, never buy something prepareed on the glass.
-Don't buy over burned food which left blacked burn marks or known as carbon, consume more cucumber if you do to neutralised the effect.
-BEWARE OF PINK OIL!!!!! that's the number one culpritt putting you at cancer risk. Pink oil happens when they use too much cooking oil until it turns pink. When it turns pink it is known as mineral oil which i usually used for my bike hydraulic disc brake. I work in the restaurant before and most restaurant are likely to keep using pink oil to save money. They don't care much about customer health.
-Hotel food are notoriously have high chemical content. Believe me or not during my young days they wash pot and cooking utensil using VHS HEAD CLEANER! Why i don't know but one of the waitress says it make the food taste good!..urrgghhh.. After that for 15 years i never ate at hotel. You pay expensive food just to die? not worth it.
-When you want to pack "tapau" the food use you own stainless steel container or ceramic pot to keep the food. Polysterine, plastic bag and newpaper "WILL" deposite chemical after exposed to warm food. The heat from the food accelerate the chemical extraction from the container.
-Beware i saw some cook always sneeze!
-Beware of the "plastic" melting and the "underwear voodoo". I'm sure you heard the story locally.
-Acid bicarbonate or chemical that make the food lasts, the ingredient very popular on fast food that was built too keep it for more than 3 days, especially on rice and fish. You know the exotic food.
-Last week i bought a deep fried banana just for experiment as recomended by one of my chemist friend. Leave it out side and see if there any fly, ant or any insect infesting the food. Two days later i don't see any insect feasting on it !!!!! Dangerous food!
-Sponges!! here's something we neglected when it comes to eating outside. When they wash dishes to keep using same sponges on every plate. The technique on using sponges really matters a lot between life and death. Sponges when you squeeze, then place on the dirty plate and release it will absorb all the bacteria and chemical which trapped it permanently inside the sponges. Then when it squeeze again it will transfer to another dishes, the remaining bacteria or chamical will be breed and permanent reservoir for next cleaning. Next time if you feel olike you plate is very oily or looks stainly suspicious then stop eating that meal. Don't believe me? Place a dust of sugar on the plate. Get the sponges at your kitchen, slice it, squeeze out the juiced from the sponges on the sugar and leave it for 2 days....yeah you get fungus like stuff or if you're lucky something like tiny ring worm will be born.
I have too much story to tell because my last jobs was related to food industries which pays suks digit. So wanna life a healtly life just go do your own cooking.
