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A Deadly Rojak

According to Asia One News:

A WOMAN is in coma and at least 28 others have been hospitalised after being hit by severe food poisoning after eating at a famous Indian rojak stall in Geylang Serai last Friday, reported The New Paper on Sunday.

More than 100 people sought hospital treatment after eating at the Rojak Geylang Serai stall at #01-320 at Geylang Serai market, which had previously been featured on Makansutra.

 

- Food poisoning! It never cease to surprise me how bad the state of some of the food stalls in Singapore! Some of them are even promoted in TV shows for how “tasty” they are.

There may be more then meets the eye here.

Let me list out a few wacky things that may had happened.

  1. Disgruntled ex-employee final farewell gift?
  2. Jealous competitors making their mark?
  3. Unhappy customer’s revenge for bad service?
  4. International Terrorist Forgets his canister of “tasty sauce” somewhere near the stall.
  5. Stall owner who hack care about cleanliness?

Wacky Solutions to avoid eating at dangerous stalls.

  1. Ask the stall owner if the food is spiked before buying
  2. See the faces of all the people around the stall if they looked ill
  3. Examine the stall cleanliness and surrounding state of hygiene such as the nearby toilet.
  4. If the stall owner wear a dirty clothes
  5. If the stall owner handle food & money without gloves
  6. If the stall owner smokes while cooking
  7. If you had prayed that day.
  8. If your lucky 4D lottery numbers strikes…haha

Of course, times are bad and the stall owners need help as well for their livelihood depends on our unconditional love for eating out but we do have to take into consideration of the standard of food we eat.

Make sure we are well aware of the risk we are taking just like when we go overseas and eat at the back alley, always be cautious.

There seems to be a sudden surge of severe food poisoning similar to an systematic attack to Singapore & Malaysia but it may be just the raw materials that they used may be from the same manuafacturer or storage.
There are several possibilities stated below.
  1. Certain Raw materials may be identical between both cases?
  2. Certain items used in the process of cooking are tainted?
  3. The people handling the food or utensils before the incident may be related to both cases?
  4. Both unrelated in nature but are both enemies of certain “groups”, “organisation” or “individuals”.
  5. It may also be random terrorist attack happening with key goals to strike fear in the people’s heart from eating outside.
  6. Simply unhygienic handling of the food…?
I hope these cases will cease as food is one of the key “attraction” of Singapore.

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6 April 2009 at 09:43 - Comments
  • huakong
    hey simon, how do you want to be a NMP ? I think you might be suitable for the job based on your feedbacks on political issues.
    http://www.channelnewsasia.com/stories/singaporelocalnews/view/420285/1/.html
  • Simon Tay
    I am happy on where I am for now, maybe when I finally met their requirements…then I will decide if I can be a NMP.

    Being in political group is not good…I like to focus on the problems instead.
  • Sarah
    simon, latest news about the ‘Deadly Rojak’ stall, 1 woman was dead and 1 suffered miscarriage. Read more here http://www.soshiok.com/articles/12314
  • Anonymous
    I think this kind of things happen simply because people just keep quiet when they come across unhygenic food in food courts or hawker centres. They tend to think this is not important but it may affect serveral other people along the way.
  • Wind
    Can the blog owner or anyone update us on the rojak issue? What are the main cause of this food poisioning case?
  • Simon Tay
    The latest I heard is 2 person plus an unborn baby died but the media so far had pointed fingers to the big rats there…as the cause.

    I am not so sure about any final “results” from the analysis from CDC to find out the cause yet…maybe it’s simply covered up to avoid mass panic.

    we don’t need a panic to send people away from food stalls right?

    Not really a good time to learn how to cook from home…or work
  • Wind
    How do you cook from workplace?
  • Simon Tay
    I am fortunate to work in a place that have a kitchen pantry that allow me to cook stuff but if you want you can cook instant noodles using hot water.
  • Wind
    Not healthy to eat instant noodles everyday too.
  • Simon Tay
    yes I agreed :)

    Best is to learn how to cook at home then bring to work in those metal container…

    then share money with boss or colleagues buy a microwave put in the office :)