We use to patronize this ‘pan meen’ noodles stall at a nearby coffee shop. That particular pan meen is really very tasty and my girls love it to bits. I started to feel turned off when one time, I saw how the stall owner’s foreign worker prepared the mixed pork meat. In a very large basin that was stained with dirt and plastic peeling off, I saw him scooping big spoonfuls of white powdery stuff and pouring them onto the meat. The white stuff was most likely MSG. Well, MSG was still acceptable but NOT the dirty basin which was placed on the wet and dirty coffee shop floor.

A few weeks later when I went to the same stall to take away, what I saw was the last straw that made me make up my mind that that would be our last time patronizing that stall. I saw many pails on the dirty floor that was used to soak vegetables and water (for the soup). And those pails were previously used to store paints!! Matex paints to be exact. Oh My God! How could the stall owner recycle those pails that were used to store something that is so poisonous and toxic to store food now?! My tummy churned and I felt so turned off while waiting for the noodles. When the stall owner scooped up water from one of the Matex pails to pour into the pot to cook the pan meen that I ordered, I felt really nauseated. I then looked around at other stalls and I noticed the same type of recycled MATEX pails used by those stall owners to soak veggie and water (for the soup) TOO! Goodness! I wanted to run out and never patronize those stalls ever again. And actually thinking back, I notice that many hawkers use recycled paint pails to store water and to soak veggie too. Did you ever notice this? Imagine eating food from these stalls on a frequent basis. Imagine what we have been ingesting all these while. GOSH!! That could be one of the reasons why many people these days suffer from a wide range of terminal illnesses and disorders. We are what we eat. So if you put rubbish and poison into your body, your body succumbs to them over time.