Recently, a reporter received a complaint from a netizen that when he dined at a South Beauty branch in Changsha, Hunan Province, he noticed that the food was not fresh. The netizen claimed that he didn't pay much attention to the food, and only felt that the food, especially the fish, had a slightly sour smell, but when he went home, he felt sick and vomited and had diarrhea for several days before stopping.
The reporter came to the South Beauty store located in the Yuefang Mall on the west side of the People's Road in Changsha City, and saw that the store was recruiting waitresses, and the reporter then applied for the position. After providing a false resume, the person in charge of the store immediately interviewed the reporter, and after a brief conversation, the person in charge of the store immediately asked the reporter to work on the job. The reporter noted that throughout the interview process, South Beauty did not require the reporter to provide a health card or medical certificate.
The reporter was then assigned to the kitchen as a cook, responsible for configuring sauces and ingredients for the dishes. The reporter found that the kitchen walls and floors often accumulated sewage and grease stains, in order to keep clean, the kitchen chef will not regularly on the walls and floors for brushing and sweeping, and after sweeping, the kitchen chef will be put into the broom used to cook pots for rinsing.
South Beauty kitchen, many dishes in the cooking before the need to mix processing, such as cooking boiled beef before the need to use raw flour to stir beef, balsa fish in the pot before the need to mix the spicy sauce and egg sauce. When the reporter put on the gloves ready to assist the chef mixing sauce, the accused: "good trouble name cack, directly with the hand mixing sprinkle!"
The reporter found that no one in the kitchen to wear gloves and masks, are working with their bare hands, and the cooks "steal" the guests' dishes with their bare hands is also commonplace.
The store also exists in the phenomenon of recycling dishes. the evening of August 3, the kitchen staff will guests did not use up the Sichuan spicy chicken back to the kitchen, placed centrally, will be one of the spicy chicken and red pepper were selected, and then will be the spicy chicken again in the pot to prepare for the "dish"; and red pepper is polished into spicy powder, used in the store's spicy noodles and a variety of other things, such as the noodles. The red pepper is polished into chili powder, which is used as an ingredient for many dishes such as chili noodles in the store.
The reporter noticed that the fish and shrimp needed for South Beauty's dishes are usually sent before 9:00 a.m. every morning, and all kinds of fish and shrimp will be put into the fish tank immediately to feed, in order to attract people's attention; the reporter also found that it is difficult for the living fish and shrimp to live for more than two days after they are sent over, and the dead fish and shrimp will be "special treatment".
After squatting, the reporter found that every night around 9:00 pm, South Beauty store will have a person will fish out the dead fish in the tank, sent to the freezer, and then the next day will be taken out of the dead fish for cooking. Due to the general business of the store, the reporter after counting, found that most of the fish used for cooking to guests to eat are dead fish, only a few fish placed in the fish tank "as a facade". When the reporter questioned the freshness of these fish, the store chef is very disdainful claimed: "What do you mean as if, originally is dead fish."
The reporter also learned that the back of the kitchen cooking dishes are not all the menu shown on the front of the dishes or ingredients, in order to save costs, the chefs to the second best - even the market price of low food ingredients used to make a variety of "high" dishes.
In order to get a better grasp of the situation, another reporter came to South Beauty's Yuefang store to cooperate with a reporter working in the back kitchen. The reporter entered the store as a guest, and then opened the menu to order a dish called "squirrel guppy," which the waiter claimed was the store's signature dish, made with guppy as the main ingredient.
And squatting in the kitchen of the reporter found that the food handler received ordering information from the freezer out of a long dead bass to the kitchen and cooking. In a short time, the dead bass became a gorgeous "squirrel guppy" dish.
The reporter who ordered the dish outside found that the "squirrel guppy" tasted off-odor, but was almost hidden by the thick sauce, while the pattern on the tail and head still vaguely indicated that it was a sea bass.
Seeing this situation, the reporter immediately called the waiter, questioned whether this "squirrel guppy" is guppy made and whether it is fresh, the waiter insisted that this is undoubtedly the guppy, and absolutely is now slaughtered and cooked. The reporter argued, after a few rounds of negotiation, the store manager only admitted that this dish for the production of perch, but insisted on guaranteeing that it is fresh live perch production, and promised that the price of food can be discounted by 50%. In order not to arouse suspicion, the reporter left the scene after the completion of forensics.
Food safety is no small matter, and keeping it safe is a big deal. We hope that the operators of these food outlets around us will exercise self-discipline and strict quality control to ensure food safety and hygiene. In the past few days, food processing and production of negative news, which means that there are loopholes in the regulatory mechanism, but also shows that the cost of illegal food production in China is too low. Only increase the supervision, strengthen the fight, can really play a deterrent role, so that the food hygiene environment safe up.