SHIT IN YOUR FOOD

This morning, yarl restaurant's selfish and irresponsible boss turned on his loud and deafening kitchen hood at 6.10 a.m. After being wakened up from my deep sleep with his noisy kitchen hood every morning, the first thing I will do is to write an article about his noise pollution and sleep deprivation program in this blog. This blog is specially created to fight noise pollution and hence oppression in Malaysia. This is because I do not want to suffer in silence - let the whole world know how the noise pollution victims in Malaysia are suffering! What do I mean by oppression? Is noise pollution a form of oppression? Just browse through some of the articles here and you'll understand how much sufferings yarl restaurant's victims have to endure every moment of their lives. Oppression is defined by the Macmillan Dictionary as oppressive leaders, government, or laws that treat people unfairly or in a cruel way. To make yarl restaurant's victims to suffer from noise pollution and sleep deprivation every day of their lives is a form of cruelty. The laws that we have here are treating us unfairly by not only subjecting us to loud and deafening noise all our waking hours but also during our sleep. Sleep deprivation is a form of torture intended for the prisoners of war or criminals. We are not criminals or prisoners of war in a concentration camp so why torture us this way?

 In Malaysia, there are no laws to protects our basic rights. If someone were to put up a loud and deafening kitchen hood outside your window and turns it on for 17-18 hours a day, torturing you day and night with the noise and forbidding you to sleep, you cannot say or do anything about it. You can only bear the noise with fortitude. If you can't bear it, then go and buy a new house and move away. How many Malaysians are suffering from tinnitus because of this kind of noise? Similarly, if someone were to build a nuclear plant in front of your house, you will have to bear the radiation that comes from it with fortitude. Malaysians are not rich. Many of them can only afford to buy one house in their lifetime and even that they have to pay like hell. I will not let selfish and irresponsible people who sacrifice others for the sake of their business to triumph over their evil deeds. Let us all boycott this kind of people and their business. What shall I write today? The Lynas case or the Gold for me, Cyanide for You Case? Every morning, when yarl restaurant's loud and deafening kitchen hood noise wakes me up from my deep sleep and chases me out of my bedroom, I couldn't help thinking of the Lynas victims and cyanide victims. They have been living peacefully for generations in the same place but now their houses are no longer safe for them because of radiation and cyanide. Can they afford a new house and move elsewhere?

Well, today I am going to share with my readers a real life story of what happened in a mamak restaurant in Bangsar a few years back. Hope you enjoy reading it. Well, as you know, these Indian fellows don't use tissue to clean their ass after shitting. Instead hey use their hands to clean their ass. It just happened that this worker in the mamak restaurant was wearing a ring and some of the shit got stuck in the ring and that was how the  shit got into the food. The customers were so furious after finding some "extra ingredients" in their food that they overturned the tables and chairs in that restaurant. Imagine eating shit in a restaurant - Ugh!!! This is terrible. It was a good thing they discovered the shit. What if they didn't know anything about it and just swallowed it as part of the food and enjoying it? So my dear readers, be careful with what you put in your mouth next time you eat out.

There were two restaurants operating in the same venue before yarl restaurant but none of them made any noise at all. Yarl restaurant is the only restaurant that makes loud and deafening noise all the time. Having lived opposite 3 restaurants, I have developed a phobia of eating in restaurants. Each time someone gives me a treat in a restaurant, I wish I have brought my own plate, fork, and spoon with me. (You should have seen how they wash and handle these!). And of course I keep looking out for "extra ingredients" that shouldn't be there! The vegetables and meat - have you ever wonder how do the restaurant workers wash it? How come there is still sand in the vegetables? Is it safe to eat sand? The thing I hate most is to find sand in my mouth! This is particularly true when it comes to green leafy vegetables because the restaurant workers just cannot afford to wash them properly. Do we really need to eat in a restaurant? Here, I would like to share with you some dirty restaurant secrets the kitchen crew won't tell you.

Dirty Restaurant Secrets the Kitchen Crew Won’t Tell You

What's going on back there? Keep your budget and health in check with these insider secret restaurant tips from the other side of the kitchen doors.

By Sheri Alzeerah

1. Our waiters don't wipe down the menus between customers...

...or salt and pepper, or bottles of ketchup and mustard. It may come as no surprise to a germaphobe that restaurant kitchens are bacteria paradise. But bugs dwell on tabletop items too. Good Morning America sent a team of scientists to swab the items on the tables of 12 restaurants, including the items mentioned above. They found that menus carried the most germs, with an average count of 185,000 bacteria—nearly 16 times that of the second most germ-infested item, pepper shakers. (Everyone looks at the menu. Not everyone loves pepper.) Next time you're out, place your order. Then wash your hands before you eat.  

2. We get sick, too.

But taking a sick day is not always the reality. According to a recent study by The Food Chain Workers Alliance, 53 percent of food chain workers reported going to work when sick. “A lot of poor, transient people work in restaurants,” says Peter Francis, coauthor of industry exposé How to Burn Down the House, in Wall Street Journal’s SmartMoney. “They're not giving up the $100 they'd make in a shift because they're sick.” Keep an eye out for chefs sitting on the sidewalk smoking, sneezing, and coughing in their hands, says Chris Gesualdi, chef instructor at the Institute of Culinary Education.

3. If our bathroom's dirty, imagine what our kitchen looks like.

For a clear sign of a restaurant’s sanitation standards, just step into the restroom. “Reality is when the bathroom is filthy and every customer can see, just imagine how dirty the kitchen is where the customer can't see,” says Cannon. Just because employees must wash their hands before returning to work doesn’t mean you—or your food—are safe. (Some of the restaurant workers just piss in the drain outside the kitchen and whether they wash their hands or not after that only God knows).

4. That marked-up pasta dish pays my wages.

You know something like pasta costs only a few pennies and is usually topped with something that costs only a little more. But it’s safe to assume you won’t see $1.50 rigatoni on a menu any time soon. Bottom line, restaurants need to turn a profit. “At a fine-dining restaurant, the average cost of food is 38 to 42 percent of the menu price,” says Kevin Moll, CEO and president of National Food Service Advisors, in Wall Street Journal’s SmartMoney. You also might be charged for sharing, cutting, corking, and other services that require minimal manpower. Markups help pay for kitchen labor, wait staff, décor, music, advertising, or even real estate costs. (It is always cheaper to cook yourself. A packet of Italian spaghetti only costs around RM4.00 at AEON Big Hypermarket and it is enough for the whole family. But if you were to eat out, you have to pay RM6.90 for a small plate of spaghetti. Some restaurants may even charge more than RM10.00 for that small plate of spaghetti. Is it worth  your money?)