Hawker Stupidities

[KNNBCCB]

always wipe the spoons and chopstickss with tissues before use. just to make sure.
anyone bring their own spoons or chopsticks ?
seems like taiwanese got this habbit...

 

[Ramseth]

To be aware and taking care of oneself is one thing while doing it to the extent of being mysophobic is quite another altogether.

Fussy, small but powerful word. Mysophobic, big word indeed. All I'm asking is, what's so difficult above reversing the spoon in a soup dish to keep the handle clean? I don't scold anybody in the hawker centre. If the spoon slides in too deep to be reasonably useable, I use go get a fresh spoon. The question is still, what's so difficult about reversing the spoon in a soup dish to avoid it sliding in and all the troubles?

 

[Ramseth]

always wipe the spoons and chopstickss with tissues before use. just to make sure.
anyone bring their own spoons or chopsticks ?
seems like taiwanese got this habbit...

Exactly. Now we're progressing somewhere. In Thailand, Malaysia, Taiwan, Japan, USA etc. dishes are never served with spoons in them, so that the customers can wipe them before use. Why do Singapore hawkers want to plunge spoons into their dishes and don't even bother to keep the handles dry and clean by reversing them?

Some Malay food practice are even more horrible and inexplicable, e.g. Mee Rebus, Mee Siam. They take the plate with fork and spoon (western long handles) already in them and fill it up with the noodle and gravy. By the time it reach your table, even such long handles as western spoon and fork are almost completely soaked.

 

[Kid278]

A fuss is, Ah Pek, come here, you stupid dirty pig is it? Go change a clean spoon for me! However, I nicely go to the stall and changed the spoon myself. I'm discussing this here as a matter of hygiene issue only.

I know where you're coming from, you sure know how to put things in your own perspective. But a fuss is still a fuss. No challenge on the hygiene issue, will you still eat prata knowing that a piece of dough is being flip and flop with bare hands that touches who knows whatnot.

 

[Jah_rastafar_I]

Exactly. Now we're progressing somewhere. In Thailand, Malaysia, Taiwan, Japan, USA etc. dishes are never served with spoons in them, so that the customers can wipe them before use. Why do Singapore hawkers want to plunge spoons into their dishes and don't even bother to keep the handles dry and clean by reversing them?

Some Malay food practice are even more horrible and inexplicable, e.g. Mee Rebus, Mee Siam. They take the plate with fork and spoon (western long handles) already in them and fill it up with the noodle and gravy. By the time it reach your table, even such long handles as western spoon and fork are almost completely soaked.

wah u want to complain about malays ah? Racism again you know.

 

[Ramseth]

I know where you're coming from, you sure know how to put things in your own perspective. But a fuss is still a fuss. No challenge on the hygiene issue, will you still eat prata knowing that a piece of dough is being flip and flop with bare hands that touches who knows whatnot.

A relatively much higher class food like sushi is also made by hand. We just have to trust the chef or else don't eat or eat it somewhere else we trust. What I'm talking about is the unnecessarily soiling of utensils at serving. In fact talking about prata, many stalls have the same problem. They take a plate, place spoon and fork on it, then place the rota on top of it all. By the time the dish reach your table, you have to recover oily spoon and fork from underneath the prata. Might as well eat with your hands. Oh I forgot, Indians and Malays do eat with their hands.

 

[kingrant]

Know why? Becos the Japs have perfected soup-making such that it comes out in a hot but not scalding temperature of 50 degrees C so you can drink it right of the bowl!

Moreover, miso paste is best made in water that is not boiling but left for a while after it is boiled, otw it will spoil the miso.

That's a Japanese spoon, with their usual penchant for modifying design to solve problem. The Japanese seldom use spoon.

 

[KNNBCCB]

Mr Ram...
in food court,

1. When you pick up the chopsticks ( arranging in vertically ),
do you pick up the one that the tip facing down or up ?

2. When you pick up the chopsticks from the small trays ( arranging horizontally) ,
do you dig inside to take the inside one or the top one ?

 

[Ramseth]

Mr Ram...
in food court,

1. When you pick up the chopsticks ( arranging in vertically ),
do you pick up the one that the tip facing down or up ?

2. When you pick up the chopsticks from the small trays ( arranging horizontally) ,
do you dig inside to take the inside one or the top one ?

Whatever, i just take it, as long as I take it myself and wipe it with tissue before using. Talking about chopsticks, another horrible Chinese practice is using a small bowl to stuff up soup noodle dishes, then served by placing chopsticks across the bowls. Half of the chopsticks are oily when they reach your table.

Notice Japanese bowls are bigger with servings to three-quarter full. That's why no danger of fingers of servers dipping into the dish or diners spilling the soup on the table. Japanese chopsticks are also different from Chinese chopsticks if you notice. Japanese chopsticks are shorter but sharper and easier to use.

 

[sinren67]

you're most likely to be served with the spoon plunged in all the way leaving only the tip of the handle clean for grabbing. Why can't they reverse the spoon leaving the entire handle clean? >>

This can be explained under the Newton's law of universal gravitation. Due to its design, it's easier and take less time for a hawker to put the spoon to be plunged in than having the need to reverse the spoon, especially during the peak hour.

 

[cleareyes]

At coffeeshops and hawker centres, if you order a bowl of soup dish (noodle soup, porridge etc.) you're most likely to be served with the spoon plunged in all the way leaving only the tip of the handle clean for grabbing. Why can't they reverse the spoon leaving the entire handle clean?

I usually don't pick a fuss, knowing that they're either stupid or couldn't care less. I just walk over to the stall and pick a fresh spoon. Sometimes some of them do ask why, and I'd tell them nicely that a spoon inserted into a soup bowl should be inserted reverse to keep the handle cleanly rested on the brim of the bowl instead of sliding down and in, defeating the purpose of a spoon.

Next time I come to eat, same thing happened again, almost whole spoon was plunged in face up and slided down to almost handle tip. Once again, I just walked over to the stall and picked up a fresh clean spoon and a pair of chopsticks. I needed the chopsticks to fish out the drowning spoon.

You seriously need a day job.

 

[Alamaking]

You seriously need a day job.

I agree, freelance language translator dun earn good money 1, LOL :p:p

 

[Maximilian Chua-Heng]

Go to a decent restaurant, don't go to food courts or hawker centres, problem solved.

I agree, freelance language translator dun earn good money 1, LOL :p:p

 

[Ramseth]

You seriously need a day job.

You seriously need to get laid, Mr. Seven Incher.