Since I am at the topic of eggs, I just remembered one particular incident at a mamak restaurant last year which was the turning point that made me make up my mind that I will never again order half boiled eggs from coffee shops and restaurants.  If you think about it, do you think that the foreign workers hired to work in the coffee shop or restaurant would bother to wash the shell of the eggs before boiling the eggs?  I even have doubts that they wash the vegetables before cooking them.

We were having breakfast of roti canai and tosei at this mamak restaurant last year and I ordered 3 half-boiled eggs. When the eggs came, my tummy churned instantly when I saw feathers and chicken poop stuck to the egg shells! Yellowish-greyish shit! Oh-my-goodness!  Though I was starving as I hadn’t taken my breakfast yet, I just could not bring myself to break the shell of the poop-covered eggs with the spoon… and use the same spoon to scoop up the eggs.   We returned the eggs to the restaurant worker.

After countless bird flu epidemics which shook the world up raising awareness of how risky being in contact with chickens and eggs at the time of the epidemic, I am sure all of us are now wary with the way we handle eggs.  I miss those good old days where we can eat half boiled eggs that are really runny. And I am sure many of you were given raw eggs to eat or raw eggs mixed with hot fresh milk as we were told by our mothers that raw eggs are full of goodness and nutrients. No, not anymore.  Eggs are not safe to be eaten raw anymore and are a high risk food of being contaminated with Salmonella bacteria.