Comments on: Dai pai dongs to become clean enough for non-Hongongers to eat at http://biglychee.com/blog/2009/12/30/dai-pai-dongs-to-become-clean-enough-for-non-hongongers-to-eat-at/ Watching the sun set, little by little, on Asia's greatest city Fri, 30 Jul 2010 05:58:34 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 By: Tweets that mention Dai pai dongs to become clean enough for non-Hongongers to eat at « Big Lychee, Various Sectors -- Topsy.com http://biglychee.com/blog/2009/12/30/dai-pai-dongs-to-become-clean-enough-for-non-hongongers-to-eat-at/comment-page-1/#comment-294 Tweets that mention Dai pai dongs to become clean enough for non-Hongongers to eat at « Big Lychee, Various Sectors -- Topsy.com Thu, 31 Dec 2009 00:21:09 +0000 http://biglychee.com/blog/?p=950#comment-294 [...] This post was mentioned on Twitter by Nic Tinworth, filination. filination said: (Best of HK) Dai pai dongs to become clean enough for non-Hongongers to eat at http://cli.gs/0HtYY [...] [...] This post was mentioned on Twitter by Nic Tinworth, filination. filination said: (Best of HK) Dai pai dongs to become clean enough for non-Hongongers to eat at http://cli.gs/0HtYY [...]

]]> By: Pigeater http://biglychee.com/blog/2009/12/30/dai-pai-dongs-to-become-clean-enough-for-non-hongongers-to-eat-at/comment-page-1/#comment-290 Pigeater Wed, 30 Dec 2009 21:05:12 +0000 http://biglychee.com/blog/?p=950#comment-290 What about the fried pork restaurant on Wellington street. I dined there just recently with about five to six unhappy slaughtered pigs in the background,probably a day's supply. Spooky sure but so much more assuring to see where your food comes from than those theme places What about the fried pork restaurant on Wellington street. I dined there just recently with about five to six unhappy slaughtered pigs in the background,probably a day’s supply. Spooky sure but so much more assuring to see where your food comes from than those theme places

]]> By: Jackson http://biglychee.com/blog/2009/12/30/dai-pai-dongs-to-become-clean-enough-for-non-hongongers-to-eat-at/comment-page-1/#comment-288 Jackson Wed, 30 Dec 2009 15:11:18 +0000 http://biglychee.com/blog/?p=950#comment-288 With regard to the washing up, if you had investigated further you would have no doubt found a pile of plastic plates being washed in a large tub using a running hose and no detergent in a back alley somewhere. The washer-upper would either be a TWP holder moonlighting or the eatery's owner domestic helper who is forced to work there. This is after already putting in a 14 hour day in sir's home. With regard to the washing up, if you had investigated further you would have no doubt found a pile of plastic plates being washed in a large tub using a running hose and no detergent in a back alley somewhere. The washer-upper would either be a TWP holder moonlighting or the eatery’s owner domestic helper who is forced to work there. This is after already putting in a 14 hour day in sir’s home.

]]> By: gunlaw http://biglychee.com/blog/2009/12/30/dai-pai-dongs-to-become-clean-enough-for-non-hongongers-to-eat-at/comment-page-1/#comment-276 gunlaw Wed, 30 Dec 2009 04:15:51 +0000 http://biglychee.com/blog/?p=950#comment-276 One of my daughters blew off an Xmas party at Kensington Palace in favour of flying back to HK to do lunch at a dai pai dong in the middle of a Lamma street. Her companions were me and the family dog who left his snout in the scraps bin for a solid 30 minutes. For once, the proprietor's own daughter did not have to empty it herself. One of my daughters blew off an Xmas party at Kensington Palace in favour of flying back to HK to do lunch at a dai pai dong in the middle of a Lamma street.

Her companions were me and the family dog who left his snout in the scraps bin for a solid 30 minutes. For once, the proprietor’s own daughter did not have to empty it herself.

]]> By: Historian http://biglychee.com/blog/2009/12/30/dai-pai-dongs-to-become-clean-enough-for-non-hongongers-to-eat-at/comment-page-1/#comment-272 Historian Wed, 30 Dec 2009 02:13:36 +0000 http://biglychee.com/blog/?p=950#comment-272 Often when passing within nose-shot of a Dai Pai Dong I'm reminded of Sir Frederick Treves, personal physician to the Prince of Wales and The Elephant Man, who visited Canton in 1906: "A conspicuous restaurant in one squalid lane was little more than a witches’ kitchen. It was full of a sickening steam hanging over cauldrons bubbling with loathsome stews, or filled with dead-looking soup in which floated awful fragments of bird or beast." Often when passing within nose-shot of a Dai Pai Dong I’m reminded of Sir Frederick Treves, personal physician to the Prince of Wales and The Elephant Man, who visited Canton in 1906:

“A conspicuous restaurant in one squalid lane was little more than a witches’ kitchen. It was full of a sickening steam hanging over cauldrons bubbling with loathsome stews, or filled with dead-looking soup in which floated awful fragments of bird or beast.”

]]> By: skreader http://biglychee.com/blog/2009/12/30/dai-pai-dongs-to-become-clean-enough-for-non-hongongers-to-eat-at/comment-page-1/#comment-271 skreader Wed, 30 Dec 2009 01:49:12 +0000 http://biglychee.com/blog/?p=950#comment-271 It drives me bats that every time I read of any initiative to change things in HK, it's always for "the tourists" and never for the "residents" (let alone, "the citizens", an alien concept). It drives me bats that every time I read of any initiative to change things in HK, it’s always for “the tourists” and never for the “residents” (let alone, “the citizens”, an alien concept).

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