Had lunch? Great, because this will either make your stomach flip once or twice, or if you’re like us, shrug, and wonder what’s for dinner.
A Bandar Sunway taufu fau (soy pudding) seller has found himself at the center of a local viral video clip this week, after a distraught patron confronted him about reusing disposable, plastic bowls without properly washing them.
Selva Jai Raam posted a 90-second clip to his Facebook account detailing the conversation he had with the uncle, showing him rinsing the bowls in a pail of water, minus any soap. It has now been watched nearly 600,000 times, and counting.
Having just thrown the bowl away, Selva tells the man that he watched him rescue it from a fate at the top of a rubbish heap, and rinse it in a little bucket of stagnant water.
Arguing that the product has no oil, the uncle sees no issue with this, and tells him that he does this regularly.
During the clip, the vendor tells Selva: “Saya berani makan., saya berani jual” (If I am brave enough to eat this, I am brave enough to sell it to others).
Selva then tells the man that he would not dare it his food, and will instead be uploading the video to Facebook, as one does nowadays.
As we already know, Selva fulfilled his promise, and the debate has been equal parts lively and disgusted. While many could only muster a squeamish emoji or three, others wondered if the pail of stagnant water contained the saliva of everyone who had eaten at the mobile stall that day (yes?).
Others pointed out that quite simply, the man should have used soap and running water. Doing otherwise is simply not clean, they concluded.
Fair enough, but on the scale of plate washing in a gutter-water pothole, and having a crow eat our chicken rice before we do, this one ranks somewhere further down the “Ewwwww” line.
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