Harringay, Haringey - So Good they Spelt it Twice!
Cigarette Butt Chow Mein
if you are thinking of having Chinese food this NYE I’d steer clear of China Chef in West Green Road
We ordered a Chinese meal at today (31.12.18) from China Chef, 466 West Green Road, N153PT via Uber Eats and found a Chinese cigarette butt in the chicken chow mein.
For this to occur, the chef MUST have been smoking in the kitchen and dropped the cigarette butt into the food.
This is disgusting and a potential health hazard.
I rang to complain and the restaurant initially refused to believe me, then told me they would send a driver round to collect the dish back.
When the driver arrived I refused the replacement dish as it would have been cooked in the same environment and asked for a full refund.
I am awaiting that refund now and have reported them to Haringey Food Safety Team,
ugh.
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Permalink Reply by Hugh on
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Yes, factories have economies of scale, but they still recover the cost of processing the food plus a profit margin on top of the cost of the ingredients. So it seems pretty likely that it's much cheaper for a mom'n'pop business to do it themselves or to employ a recent immigrant from China to do that work - and incidentally avoid any wastage.
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Permalink Reply by Shar on
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While personally I tend to avoid food from anywhere that does take away only where I can't see the kitchen, that myth likely has more to do with a winning formula that works that is shared within immigrant communities. Applies to the cheapest end of the spectrum. Knowing what to semi-prepare in advance, what to quickly combine with other ingredients bought in bulk to have the expected menu options available etc - and lo you have a functioning business. It's more of an informal franchise model than a centralised factory.
Not limited to Chinese food (or what passes for Chinese food in the take away world) but works best with it because of the style of cooking which uses many prepared sauces in different proportions.
Not necessarily a bad thing unless the resulting food quality is bad.
Though many cheap Chinese take aways do source dim sum from suppliers. As well as sushi. I wouldn't order sushi from a Chinese take away myself.
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That sounds about right. Sadly, it's more than cheap take-aways that use bought in dim sum.
In a good commercial Chinese kitchen, cooking dim sum is done by a dim sum chef who cooks only dim sum. The best are a very prized commodity. Good dim sum, properly prepared is a real treat and bears little semblance to much of what you're served on a British high street.
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