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would you eat at a restaurant that does this?

OBLAMA2009

OBLAMA2009

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so we went to get some chinese food right before they closed and they had already started cleaning up. they had filled the woks with soap and water and had a sweeper in them that they were using to scour the metal walls around the cooking area. i didnt see them wipe the floors but i wouldnt be surprised if they would do that if they had a sweeper in them. once they got our order they dumped the soapy water, added a couple scoops of clean water, dumped it and cooked our food. i think i saw soap bubbles around the top of the wok although the food didnt taste soapy.

ive seen another restaurant do the same thing, so im thinking this may be a common industry practice...

cliffs: theyre using the woks as soap buckets!!!
 
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I would not eat in a chinese restaurant in the first place.
Anyway some people have a different culture of cleaning.
I know that africans use the same rag to clean everything, including the toilet, and they don't think it's gross or anything.
 
Maybe the abrupt service you got was because, I don't know... They were closing up! Anybody who's worked retail knows how aggravating that is. After a 10+ hour shift at minimum wage, the only thing on your mind is going home. 😛
 
bignateyk said:
It's required by law at a restaurant to clean any cooking utensils/pans/etc with soap, including cast iron and woks.
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One of my tenants is a Chinese restaurant and the only time they use soap to clean the woks is during a health inspection. Those are cast iron or carbon steel woks and need a layer of oil on them to build up a protective coating. Plus they cook better that way too and become non stick. I also have some cast iron cookware that has not seen a drop of soap in years, just hot water and a quick scrub, then dry it with some heat on the stove.
 
NetWareHead said:
One of my tenants is a Chinese restaurant and the only time they use soap to clean the woks is during a health inspection. Those are cast iron or carbon steel woks and need a layer of oil on them to build up a protective coating. Plus they cook better that way too and become non stick. I also have some cast iron cookware that has not seen a drop of soap in years, just hot water and a quick scrub, then dry it with some heat on the stove.
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Yeah, because it's required by law to do so. They would probably get a health code violation if they had a random inspection.

I never clean my cast iron cookware with soap though 🙂
 
mmntech said:
Maybe the abrupt service you got was because, I don't know... They were closing up! Anybody who's worked retail knows how aggravating that is. After a 10+ hour shift at minimum wage, the only thing on your mind is going home. 😛
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It's very discourteous to walk into a restaurant near closing time. As far as using a wok as a cleaning bucket goes... That's one of those things I'd prefer not to see. I'm sure restaurants do all kinds of things I wouldn't agree with, but usually no one gets sick. Close your eyes, eat your food, and think happy thoughts :^D
 
Murloc said:
I would not eat in a chinese restaurant in the first place.
Anyway some people have a different culture of cleaning.
I know that africans use the same rag to clean everything, including the toilet, and they don't think it's gross or anything.
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Being such a small 'country' like Africa is, I have no doubt that generalization is very accurate.
 
Murloc said:
I would not eat in a chinese restaurant in the first place.
Anyway some people have a different culture of cleaning.
I know that africans use the same rag to clean everything, including the toilet, and they don't think it's gross or anything.
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Much of Asia doesn't know what clean is. They have no problems with coughing on their hand then touching everything or shaking someone else's hand. This is probably why China is constantly fighting shit like bird flu or pig flu or some other type of flu that is related to not washing your hands.
 
bignateyk said:
Yeah, because it's required by law to do so. They would probably get a health code violation if they had a random inspection.

I never clean my cast iron cookware with soap though 🙂
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The soap is more likely to make you sick than the oil in the wok. Especially at the temperatures they cook at at most Chinese places.
 
Murloc said:
I would not eat in a chinese restaurant in the first place.
Anyway some people have a different culture of cleaning.
I know that africans use the same rag to clean everything, including the toilet, and they don't think it's gross or anything.
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ShawnD1 said:
Much of Asia doesn't know what clean is. They have no problems with coughing on their hand then touching everything or shaking someone else's hand. This is probably why China is constantly fighting shit like bird flu or pig flu or some other type of flu that is related to not washing your hands.
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Talk about your ignorance, and possibly racism.
 
Yep, its fine. Also, the thing about not using soap on seasoned surfaces isn't entirely true anymore. Yes, if you scrub with very soapy water, you will take the seasoning off. However, a dilute soap/water mix will clean it well without stripping it. They don't put lye in dish soap any more, which is what the warning was really all about.

I clean my (well-seasoned) cast iron pieces with soapy water. I don't scrub too hard and I dump/rinse immediately, but that's about it.
 
ShawnD1 said:
Much of Asia doesn't know what clean is. They have no problems with coughing on their hand then touching everything or shaking someone else's hand. This is probably why China is constantly fighting shit like bird flu or pig flu or some other type of flu that is related to not washing your hands.
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People like straw men on the internet, don't they?

lxskllr said:
It's very discourteous to walk into a restaurant near closing time. As far as using a wok as a cleaning bucket goes... That's one of those things I'd prefer not to see. I'm sure restaurants do all kinds of things I wouldn't agree with, but usually no one gets sick. Close your eyes, eat your food, and think happy thoughts :^D
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This. If you don't get sick from it, and you don't taste it, then what's the point of complaining? It never bothered you before you knew about it, and unless it gives you a specific, attributable problem, it shouldn't bother you now.
 
one time i saw a program on tv about where recycled electronics go. they ship them to china and the people in the village would melt the circuit boards down in their woks to get a little puddle of gold/lead. so i guess it could be worse...
 
OBLAMA2009 said:
one time i saw a program on tv about where recycled electronics go. they ship them to china and the people in the village would melt the circuit boards down in their woks to get a little puddle of gold/lead. so i guess it could be worse...
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Yeah you could be that poor.
 
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