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[xCustomx]

I think I'm about to puke as I'm watching this program. They are showing various restaurants like 김밥천국 and how they cook and prepare the food. Many of the restaurants don't wash the dishes properly, they reuse the kimchi and other side dishes, they don't wash their hands after using the bathroom, they drop food on the floor and pick it up and put it back into the dish, they touch uncooked food (like the vegetables in bibimbap) with their bare hands, they admit that they're are many rats and mice, they use expired food, they prepare a lot of the dishes on the floor, they pull big clumps of hair out of the food and then serve it.....I don't think I can eat at places like this again

[bassexpander]

I was eating at an outback where one of the cooks left the restroom stall without washing his hands.

[zeldalee13]

[tigercat]

Ugh...

[bassexpander]

It was the one near Chonngyechon, East of Dongdaemun.

[refikaM]

Maybe the cook at Outback washed his hands at a sink in the kitchen? Well...it's possible! .... maybe! Course that's something you couldn't ever know for sure....

[QbertP]

Restaurants and chefs are never as clean as you expect.

That said, there's bad and then then there's worse. The reuse of food one is what really irks me.

On an off note, i find myself hypnotized by refikaM's avatar. I just stare at it waiting for the visor to open and zap me.

[ThingsComeAround]

I've seen a woman reuse food that was dropped on the floor.

Kept eating there because the people were so charming

I've also not ate at a kimbap place "just because" the guy speaks English, but then again I have seen a rat in his establishment

[bobbybigfoot]

I always wondered if they reused the kimchi and other sidedishes. If they don't, lots of food (cash) gets wasted. I'd have less of a problem if they at least cooked the unused kimchi. Kill off any germs.

The not washing your hands after a sh*t is revolting.

I try not to think of these things. Our bodies have immune systems and take care of 99.9% of these germs anyhow.

I've seen one mouse in Korea. Outside an apartment building. Nowhere near a restaurant.

[tefain]

I like living in ignorance on this issue as well.

If you think too much about it, you would never want to eat out!

http://www.metacafe.com/watch/310833/whats_in_your_food/

[sarbonn]

I prepare my own food here and rarely go out. I don't trust the food preparers here enough to eat out on a regular basis.

[kiknkorea]

As if Korean food wasn't unappetizing enough, I get to see this!
I know to wash food from the market, do I need to wash and re-wrap my gimbap as well?

[bassexpander]

[VanIslander]

'Germs' as an overarching concept for unseen communicable diseases and viruses is lacking here or else it's just another example of the risky unsafe behaviour of the locals.

Just last week my coworkers couldn't understand why I wasn't sharing the dinner dishes with them when I was obviously coughing up a lung and croaking like a frog.

I see almost daily parents letting their kids wander around inside a car, without a seatbelt, babies without safety seats, zooming down the road.

Two times this winter and several times previously I've seen kitchen staff exit the bathroom without washing their hands.

And the thing is: they see nothing wrong with their behaviour. It's not that they're being especially lazy or unusually irresponsible. It's simply what's done around here in a matter of fact way.

It's a cultural thing.

[CeleryMan]

Way too many people in this country have pinkeye and colds-sores... I gave up on cheap Korean dining back in '05.