Not Only Japan: Other Countries Fear Chinese Food Ahead of the Beijing Olympics.
After the recent frozen gyoza scare in Japan, it appears that Japan’s concerns over Chinese food are shared by the rest of the world. As a result, Chinese government has selected 36 farms that can provide food to athletes at the Beijing Olympics which begin in about 5 and a half months time.
In these specially selected farms, all of the food is grown in a way that will, hopefully, provide safer produce for the athletes. This food is then prepared by an American catering firm that has been used over a dozen times before for Olympic events.
The AOC (Australian Olympic Committee) has gone further by issuing directives about what to eat and what not to eat, as well as bringing some of their own food all the way from home. There are also orders to drink only the bottled water provided by the sponsor, Coca-Cola (not sure if this is for safety or publicity, though). Even after all these warnings, it appears that athletes are getting sick while preparing for the games in China.
Is all this fear in Japan and the rest of the world justified? Food has been imported into Japan and the rest of the world from China for over 40 years, yet the recent survey alluded to by James in a February 10 Japan Probe post said that 75.9% of Japanese people will not use Chinese food. Will any of you go out of your way to avoid Chinese food? Should other Olympic Committees also encourage their athletes to bring their own food to the Olympic games?
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Becareful of what you eat in China.
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Be careful of what you eat in Japan. Wakayama curry anyone?
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If I have to say, the cleaniest Asian restaurants are usually Japanese (1st) and Korean (2nd). Vietnamese and Chinese restaurants are dirty. I’m surprised many of them passed the health inspection. Thai restaurants look much cleaner than Vietnamese and Chinese. Of course, there are some Chinese and Vietnamese restaurants that have high standards.
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Depends, if you’re in singapore, the standards is rather high here since there’s frequent hygiene checks and all. But I can’t really say that for the Food in China tho, same goes for Malaysia.
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Now if they could only bring their own air.
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i hope they can do so..
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Gosh, look at that smog! I wouldn’t be as worried about the food, the damn air is what’s gonna affect them.
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Not Only Japan: Other Countries Chinese Food Ahead of the Beijing Olympics. <– verb please.
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who the hell cares about that. Mr. Perfect.
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So do people think that the future will be characterized by more food-safety scares in other countries as well? China is getting a lot of attention regarding this probably because of the concurrence of the tainted gyoza scandal and coverage on the upcoming Olympics, but it can’t be the only country in th world with such faults.
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Of course it can’t be the only country in the world with such faults. China exports lots of food. The percentage of exported food that happens to be poisonous or non-eatable is so small compare to the rest of the big picture. In terms of percentage, that number is almost negligible.
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Sorry, but in Singapore we also have China tourists and immigrants behaving anti-socially including:-
1) urine in the MRT trains
http://singaporeseen.stomp.com.sg/singaporeseen/viewContent.jsp?id=15328
2) cutting and littering toes nails in the public
http://singaporeseen.stomp.com.sg/singaporeseen/viewContent.jsp?id=13967
3) reserving seats in crowded trains
http://singaporeseen.stomp.com.sg/singaporeseen/viewContent.jsp?id=13582
4) causing security problems when China women selling sex in our neighborhood :-
http://singaporeseen.stomp.com.sg/singaporeseen/viewContent.jsp?id=8475
Singaporeans are unhappy with such China visitors or immigrants.
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Sorry, but in Singapore we also have China tourists and immigrants behaving anti-socially including:-
1) urine in the MRT trains
http://singaporeseen.stomp.com.sg/singaporeseen/viewContent.jsp?id=15328
2) cutting and littering toes nails in the public
http://singaporeseen.stomp.com.sg/singaporeseen/viewContent.jsp?id=13967
3) reserving seats in crowded trains
http://singaporeseen.stomp.com.sg/singaporeseen/viewContent.jsp?id=13582
4) causing security problems when China women selling sex in our neighborhood :-
http://singaporeseen.stomp.com.sg/singaporeseen/viewContent.jsp?id=8475
Singaporeans are unhappy with such China visitors or immigrants.
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I would urge JP readers to visit that Singaporean blog actually, if only for comments that show how Singaporeans, supposedly members of one of the world’s most diverse cities, can be so insular. The term ang mo (紅毛) is tossed around and white people are referred to as “foreigners” at least as readily as Japan.
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