In Canada, well in Ontario on every restaurant there’s a sign that has a check mark either red for that it didn’t past, yellow it past but small violations and green which is a pass. I always thought that Americans standards are really low when it comes to these things.
@@MrMikeyboy4 we do it by percentages in America. For example, the deli I work at made a 99% on our last inspection. I have no idea if the standards are better, worse, or equal to Canada's, but I would assume they are somewhat similar.
@@iamsethhasting8911 honestly I’m not sure how they do it here but I’m just saying they have signs posted out front of all restaurants here so it’s up to us (customers) to make the the choice. I’m just surprise this place is still open or at least made sure they fix everything and have gone through proper training before reopening
This has to be a money laundering business disguised as a restaurant. There's just no way any business owner in their right mind would have their restaurant closed that many times and lose that much money and still continue to open
My thoughts exactly, being a buffet it's very easy to launder money through there due to the lack of itemisation of food items and the place is somehow still open today. There's no way there isn't some sketchy cash being pumped into the business
On that note, shout out to all the facility inspectors for looking out for us across the country. This is some gross stuff. Makes me wonder how many times things go unnoticed
often. i never get fountain sodas because all but one store ive worked at the workers never cleaned out the soda nozzles, if you take the nozzle off the soda spout where your soda comes out itll likely he full of slimy mildew and mold. i started working at a local circle k in kentucky and its soda nozzles hadnt been disassembled and cleaned for like a year, to the point when the health inspector came in they mentioned that they noticed that the soda machines are so clean now cause i dont let them get dirty, but im the only one so the soda machines and cappucino machines only get cleaned 1 time a week instead of every day, and our manager things its acceptable that the main night shift person refuses to learn how to disassemble the machines let alone clean them.
They don't look out for you though because people are still ordering there. In Germany this store would've been closed after one month in these conditions at most.
I looked up the restaurant and I think I found out how they got so many violations. They wanted to cheap out where ever they could. Not wanting to pay the extra $10 for a food grade brush is resounding proof of that. The owner wanted the cheapest labor and the cheapest equipment possible.
@@TheAaaaaaaaaad12 I once saw a story, where a company in the US had consistent breakage of a particular part in their product, which cost them $75 to fix every single time. Turns out the Chinese manufacturer was skimping out on material quality, just so that they could save 1 cent on a $300 product.
Because the government doesn’t give a sh.... what we eat from restaurants. I have also seen cucarachas, and rats in my favorite Jewish restaurants. I reported it but nothing was done.
They are gonna wait till someone dies then they will close it down they do it with every food chain/ restaurant it takes someone to die for them to actually care
Instead of asking, “Why isn’t the place getting better?” I think the question should be, “Why isn’t this place permanently shut down by now?!?” That’s absolutely atrocious!!
You'd be surprised how many Chinese restaurants are nasty. I used to work at one with rats everywhere and cockroaches. You guys are just naive and think Chinese food is clean. It is just sugar, oil, and cheap meat.
Another question they should have asked after they were told they couldn't come in was "why can't we come in, do you have something to hide", Or something like that.
It could almost be like a tourist attraction or something to go and see the restaurant that's gotten over 500 health code violations. Sure you'll more than likely get food poisoning but that's just the price for admission.
I knew a guy in high school that worked at a China Buffet. According to him, if food was straight up DROPPED on the floor, they were told to put it back on the plate and set it out. Among many other disgusting things. Made sure to steer clear of that place, that’s for sure.
Health dept finds that the soup broth is not actually soup broth, but rather toilet water from an unflushed broken toilet and allows the reataurant to keep its doors open to the public. Niiiiice...
I have worked in a few disaster kitchens because owners didn't stop these violations from happening but holy crap over 100 violations?! Food inspectors usually give you a heads up before they come to do your routine inspection there is no excuse to not at least minimize the violations to one or two if you try hard enough but this is inexcusable.
@@nicholaspatti1526 lmao nothing. That's the thing. Usually you're TOLD the day they are coming. You get like a week heads up. Of course, they are obviously allowed to pop out of the blue, they rarely do that. That's what extra disturbing. These people definitely knew inspectors were coming and did nothing about it lmao
Actually they don't give you a heads up. I know. I have been present for over 30 such inspections and not once were we told when they would get there. We get inspected twice a year. We only know it can happen any time in a 90 day period. This is part of why we do in house inspections. My last health dept inspection found zero violations. Most restaurants have between five and fifteen minor violations per inspection. Most of mine have had a few. But I have never personally witnessed an inspection with more than 22 violations and rarely more than a dozen. A restaurant with 30 violations would be one I would consider as having a serious problem with management who should rethink their career choices. 110? I just don't have the words.
Lmao I feel so bad for the camera man; it seems everyone always touches his camera. Even at 2:21 I know that guy walked all the way to him just to touch it 😂
I worked in commercial Pest control for a while with a friend and let me tell you.. if you knew what happened behind 99% of all restaurants, you would NEVER eat out again.
@@acerune8378 there is or was a rat problem at most restaurants. At least one employee that serves or prepared your food is guaranteed to be under the influence of drugs. By nature everyone is paid nothing and relies on sucking up or "creating the best experience possible" to customers to make money, therefore all interaction is inherently uneven. Also, don't get ice. The chests are never cleaned enough.
@@DoYouEvenRift I already knew about everything you listed except the ice thing. However, I never get ice in my drinks anyway cause my teeth are sensitive to cold. Oh well, guess I’ll keep eating out.
I"m glad that where I am, food places like this require a license to open a food business. Breach it like this, you loose the license and you can not trade. On top of being closed down and dragged into court. This place needs to be shut down and be issued with a huge fine endangering the public.
Thinking of getting Chinese food? Think again. Years ago, while attending Community College in Toronto. I drove taxi on Friday & Saturday nights. 99% of our fares were radio calls. One Friday, I was dispatched to pick up an order at a Chinese eatery on Danforth Avenue. It was a summer evening and, as I waited at the open side kitchen door for the order, I saw two kitchen workers using a pail situated beside a crate of vegetables, as a urinal. There was lots of "splashing" onto the vegetable crate. When done, they simply "gave it a shake, zipped up and went back to cooking without any hand washing. I immediately left without the order and contacted my dispatcher. I was told the next evening that the dispatcher called the customer and she was thankful that I had NOT picked up the order. I called the City Health Department on Monday morning. Next Friday evening, as I was driving by this place, I saw a large closed sign on the door. p.s. The person I talked to at the City Health Department told me that the vast majority of restaurant health violations they receive are for Chines restaurants.
We've got two Chinese restaurants in my small town. The one, a buffet style, is iffy most of the time. The other one, the owner takes great pride in giving kitchen tours to anyone he can drag into the kitchen! The place is not just spotless back there and in the stock room, walk in freezer and everywhere else back there, but I suspect it's clean enough one could use it to do surgery in with no bacterial worries! He required his staff to wear gloves and masks years before the pandemic hit, and all employees have to wear their hair up, wear a hair net, and keep all hair and net under a paper disposable hat as well; also full-front paper aprons for everyone except the dishwasher. He wears the hair up, net, and paper hat, but he gets full length rubber gloves and a rubber apron. If he didn't, he'd look like a giant prune at the end of his shift. As long as that gentleman continues to own and operate the place, I will never be the least bit worried about cleanliness there, and the food is excellent! Matter of fact, I wish his staff did house calls, my kitchen is pretty clean but could stand to be utterly sterilized once in awhile like their kitchen is. And it's not much more expensive than the buffet place! .
Our town has something similar, one we dont hear much about, it's a much bigger place than the other, the smaller place is LEAGUES better in every eau!
I understand the need to keep things clean in a kitchen, as a kitchen hand it is usually my responsibility. But having yo wear full length rubber gloves, hair nets and rubber aprons would be extremely annoying in a hot kitchen. If you make people wear to much gear you might end up with their sweat in your food
There’s a Chinese restaurant our family loves, it’s kind of out of the way since we moved in 2013 but we try not to go too long without having it, I took my boyfriend visiting from out of state there for the first time (and my most recent time) last summer. The first time I went there, I was in my mother’s womb, no joke. I’ve never personally seen the inside of their kitchen, but none of us have ever had the slightest hint that it’d be anything but clean. And after going there literally like 100 times, I feel pretty confident in saying it is. There was only one mishap I can remember, about half of my life ago, where they served me expired milk. Now if that sort of thing happened the first or even the third time I went somewhere, I might have some serious questions. But when you go somewhere _so_ many times, eventually it becomes a statistical inevitability.
I’ve never seen how the kitchen looks, but there’s a small, family owned Asian restaurant in my hometown called Mint Bistro that’s pretty popular and friendly; and the seating areas are always clean. Their cuisine is “Asian fusion,” meaning that they serve various types of Chinese, Japanese, and Thai dishes.
In my city (and I’m sure many others as well) many health inspectors can be bought off. Unfortunately it’s VERY common. I worked at one place that was so disgusting I ended up quitting because I began feeling morally reprehensible being a part of people eating food from that place, but our health inspections were always 100%. The owner turned off the hot water to the dish machine to save money for Christ’s sake.
@@goddammitboi as a chef I can’t knowingly serve you spoiled fish, or produce that has been sitting out of refrigeration for days, gathering E. coli and listeria; then knowingly making you sick and say “hey, I’m a chef not the moral police.” That’s why there are standards and rules set in place like management needs to be certified in a food safety course every five years, and there always has to be a servsafe certified manager on duty at ALL times. We have a social responsibility that we accept when taking certain positions. It would weigh heavy on my conscious to knowingly make a customer sick. Fortunately, every Chef I know takes pride in their work and takes these responsibilities seriously. To not care is just sociopathic. So, the health inspectors come and make sure these rules and systems are being followed. Make sure our refrigerators are cooling properly, food isn’t stored on the floor where roaches and rodents could get to it, and making sure raw beef isn’t dripping blood and cross contaminating other foods….so in a way, they kind of are the moral police….
Not to be a dick, but most dish machines have their own water heater. But a restaurant still needs hot water for the triple-sink and hand-washing stations.
A Chinese restaurant near my house needs a shutdown too. Owners are rude, place is filthy and I don’t know why Chinese and Vietnamese people often try to fight when you point out their mistake
They'll argue with you over as little as .05 cents too, (in my town) the cheap bastards! They don't deal with pennies either, where i live, and just round off the total of your order to the next highest amount. Needless to say, i hardly ever place orders to go from Chinese restaurants, and being that they're so darn cheap i don't give them a tip when i do either.
Absolutely unacceptable, and just another reason why I cook for myself. You just can't trust people to take pride in providing a healthy eating environment.
looking at the video, the inspectors actually can't do jack... think about it. the place was cited dozens of times numbering at at least 20 violations and more, per trip, and still that place kept reopening
@@mylifematter Well something caused COVID. I don't see why a Wuhan food market couldn't be the reason. It's not like we are actually going to get a real answer anyway because that would mean the WHO would have to do their jobs and they don't like doing that. To much hard work on their part.
I've been in the refrigeration business since 1962 and I could tell you some stories. The good news is most restaurant owners/operators want to and do maintain a great place to eat. But the ones that don't and don't have a clue....I could tell some stories and most of you would not eat out again for a long time. Two hints I use to have a safe and pleasant eating environment. One, try to get to know the owners as you can pick up typically quickly how stringent they are in operating and preparing the food. Two, eat in high turn over restaurants - meaning they have a lot of customers - and in doing so the food does not have time to go bad. Three, avoid most buffets as most owners recycle the food back into the newer and fresh food as no one can tell by the taste or look. If the floors/furniture and restrooms are not kept then the kitchen will be the same. And no storage of any kind is suppose to be in any restaurant restroom. I found one place that stored all of their too go items such as the Styrofoam boxes and plastic knives/forks next to the urinals. And food inspectors do have the right and duty to shut down a restaurant on the spot and give the owners a time period in which to bring that standards up to pare.
This isn’t an isolated or rare occurrence. The Chinese buffet in La Grange, KY had dozens of similar, disgusting violations. Of course, the state health inspectors let them stay in business.
Why? It doenst sound like it is for the money that they are making at the restaurant, besides, THAT money wouldnt get them anywhere. Buffets arent usually profitable, too much food to a low price.
careful there, in the present day USA its more acceptable to die from getting food poisoning from these places than suggesting that is exclusive to asian buffets, thats the worst sin of all, speaking facts.
@@northernjersey2479 "In Florida, restaurant owners are not required to post the result of their examinations for the public to view". Maybe do some research before talking lol
covering camera indicates a measure of shame, which is fascinating since they have definitely gotta be shameless to run a business like this. but then again, i have seen restaurants do shady stuff too. small amounts but they still do it.. EX dropping food and utensils on the floor and continue to use them
I don’t understand why they can’t shut down a Restaurant that has a bad health inspection. It would be one thing if he had less that 5 violations but 518 violations?!
This seems like a common theme with these types of restaurants. Even a few near my house had numerous violations. Almost to the point where they were nearly closed down. Eventually they cleaned up the place but I still won't go in there. You never know. I'd rather just eat at home.
Home food gets bland after a while, but i dont eat as much restaurant food anymore, im not a healthy eater at all by the way, im a pretty picky eater, so Chinese food is never a option for me.
Actually is a business owner, it is not a public place. It's a private business and they are allowed to tell anyone they want to leave or to stop filming
Nope you are wrong. They have violated public trust and served unclean food so they are allowed to go inside and expose their rotten unhygienic practices inside the kitchen!!!
Nothing new. This is normal SOP back home. I’ve actually seen them sharpening knives and prepping food on curbs next to storm drains. Their lack of wanting to integrate into society and learn the language, customs, laws is why there is so much animosity. This includes my in-laws where I refuse to eat at any of their establishments and they keep claiming American law doesn’t apply to them and only Chinese law does.
518 wtf thats outrageous, my mom owns a restaurant and she knows people that owns restaurants and the worst restaurants have like 10-15 violation but this is just otherworldly
@@danielfuentes2999 go look at the wuhan market and tell us how surprised you are that chinas lower and middle class culture cares little of hygiene and cleanliness. Unless this Chinese buffet is open 24/7 there’s no reason in the world good enough to explain why that kitchen looks like that. Even then, I’ve worked in busier 24/7 kitchens that never looked like that. So yes, China is a disgusting place that has outdated societal norms that get people sick. Look at the cleaning practices these guys use. Obviously there are none. The accents suggest they lived there at one point too. Coincidence? Nah.
Betcha never set foot in China. Specifically mentioning Wuhan markets because that's where the virus was supposedly leaked? Coincidence? Nah. But what can I say, slums only exist in China, right?
This is florida, i was a foodservice delivery driver in CA, AZ, WA and this is standard at 100% of chinese buffets across the country, confirmed by my foodservice delivery driver facebook group, personally ive delivered to over 150 different chinese buffets and they have everything ive seen in this video and the one about the same buffet a couple months prior, the only difference is sometimes i see even more. There has been multiple times ill deliver a stack of about 10 cases of fresh (not frozen) chicken in waxed cardboard boxes with plastic liners,no plastic sealed packaging, i set it outside the walk-in where they are supposed to put it away. when i return with another delivery about 3-4 days later the stack of 10 cases is down to about 3 cases still sitting in the exact same spot i put them days prior and the waxed boxes are now completely soaked from being being warm and wet and just falling apart.
They only care about money I was in a Chinese store and I bought a bag of chips it was 1 dollar and 16 cents I had 1 dollar and 15 cents he didn’t sell it to me for 1 penny
One of my friend's dad used to work in a Chinese restaurant. He quit after a couple of weeks because he was so disgusted at the unsanitary conditions in the kitchens and the way the chefs prepare the food and their poor hygiene. 😱🤢🤮
Me: "What's your favorite Disney movie?" Gordon Ramsay: "110 Violations." Me: "Hahah, you must mean 101 Dalmatians." Gordon Ramsay: "I know what I said."
there should be a law... ive worked in places that passed inspections but had mice peeing on your food. management knew, pest control knew, it took a bored employee to find their nest IN THE KITCHEN
There was a Pizza Hut in Anchorage, AK that I went to a few times when I was there, and the Pepperonis were rancid and the place just seemed off. We had an inspector friend warn us about that place, and we never went back. I'm happy to announce that the restaurant is permanently closed. There's another Pizza Hut in Anchorage that is open, and I have happily eaten there because it is up to code on the sanitation standards.
Another one for my list of why you should never order Chinese food. Many year ago, the sports club to which I belonged had a few Chinese members. I recall telling one of them of my cab driving horror stories and my dad's tales of filthy Chinese eateries. He said to me, "hell, I'm Chinese and I'd never eat at a Chinese restaurant."
@@ChibiGrl I didn't get it from a chinese restaurant but got food poisoning and nearly died from it, I think a lot of people don't realize how serious it can be 😔 now I'm traumatized about eating out and eating in general because even at home you can get sick, sorry about your friend, hope he's doing better 🙏
@@EmbraceWithin I know.. I got food poisoning from my school and I threw up three large gallons of fluids I nearly passed out sooo I really feel for you and my friend Samuel. He’s doing much better, I told him he should’ve waited to go too that restaurant cause it’s shady but he says he was hungry and it was the only one nearby. This guy lol
Find the Chubbyemo channel. Recent video of a roommate eating left over take-out. Lo-mein noodles. A skin necrotizing bacteria, septic shock. There's another video about the same incident. Shows the Horrible Damage he suffered.
Tbh, if I’m going to a Chinese place that doesn’t have health code violations, I’m not sure I even want to eat there. The best Chinese food I’ve had were from places that are shut down once a year
That's always how it is. Even in India where my family is from, the best food can always be found in the filthiest places. Sure, you might have a pretty high chance of landing yourself in the hospital, but honestly, it's kinda worth
It’s no different than going to a Popeyes. High chance of being carjacked, hit by a stray bullet, or shanked by a black supremacist. But that’s what makes the chicken so good, you know it might be the last thing you eat. If you make it that far.
I was a Sysco foods driver and iv delivered to tons of places like this. Iv seen it all, raw meat laying on the floor, food placed on the floor while they continue to work around it. Chefs working over a trash cans as if it’s a table and dropping the food into the trash and picking it back out and putting back on the tray. Floors covered in grease with rats and bugs running around. It has really made me Cautious when choosing where I eat. If only the public could see these kitchens before dinning.
I went to a sushi buffet one time and had food poisoning afterwards, I don’t have a sensitive stomach at all, I have a rather strong stomach that can tolerant extremely spicy food. And I was vomiting and shittin for two days and it took me a week to recover. It was so bad that I’m scared to go to one ever since.
@Lucio The DJ No, eating raw fish allow you to get all the nutrients that is usually lost while cooking, it is absolutely the best way, and very tasty. What is not a good way to eat raw fish is prepared badly by incompetent chefs, which this person was unfortunate to do.
@Lucio The DJ I also just did check the statistics and it appears nearly 90% of food poisoning cases are caused by inappropriate handling of chicken. Annually Japan sees 300 cases of food poisoning, in a country with 125 million people.
@@justanotherguy3417 it is perfectly legal to film without consent. Also security cameras do that all the time. But that aside, he was also outside of the establishment on public ground. He had every right to defend his camera which was his property.
@@justanotherguy3417 It literally fits the legal definition of assault-you're perhaps conflating assault with battery. Battery requires physical harm, while assault doesn't. Assault is not as physically severe as battery. It is considered assault if you just start manhandling someone else's property, and slapping away the stuff they're holding. You can be charged for that. Some states will combine these two separate ideas into a single idea (typically just called assault), but more commonly it's going to be two separate things. If you commit a physically violent crime in the USA, then you will most likely be charged with either simple battery or aggravated battery. You might also have some assault charges thrown on too. Consent laws depend on the state. Most US states have one-way consent laws, which means that as long as you are party to the conversation... and you personally agree to the recording... then there's no issue with recording the other parties even if they haven't consented to it. If you live in the USA, then you probably live in a state where one-way consent is the rule of law.
Time and Temperature Control Improper Food Storage Improper Tool and Utensil Storage Poor Personal Hygiene Poor Kitchen Sanitation Cross-Contamination Chemical Use and Storage... those are violations im sure thats can and they got 110 idk how it wasnt shutdown the first time.
The China Buffet in Palmdale CA is now closed,filthy and people including myself were getting sick. Carpet filthy,utensils sticky and overall poor cleanliness.
No matter how gross the restaurant is, it's still grosser that news people will pester someone until they're frustrated, then use the footage of them being frustrated to make it look like that was their initial reaction, as if there's guilt written on their face.
