Hygiene Regulations for food outlets - are there any?

Queen180


Joined: 13/04/2009
Posts: 399

Message Posted:
15/10/2009 11:43

A fantastic kebab shop next to ShBoom that opens late - at last a place for a yummy feast! Well read on.....

Went a couple of weeks ago late one night - went to use the toilets before ordering and they looked as though hadnt been cleaned for weeks...... walked out in disgust! Decided to try again last night and to my amazement the chef was cooking our chicken sis durum hovvering over it smoking a cigarette - how apalling is that.......

smithy


Joined: 17/07/2008
Posts: 5301

Message Posted:
15/10/2009 11:50

Probably a lot of Restaurants are like that here, as we never go into the kitchens but I have a thing about checking out the toilets, if that's bad then I'm off.

I was amazed the other day popped into a little cafe Susam near the water fountain for a pied, and checked the loos (as you do) and they were brilliant, they had plastic covering over the seat and when you finished you pressed a button and the plastic covering moved round and hey presto it was changed to a new clean one for the next person to sit on. So if small place can adopt this why cant the big Restaurants do that.

will give a neg nick on this one for clean loos 10/10 food was good to

sheila

everon


Joined: 18/04/2009
Posts: 956

Message Posted:
15/10/2009 15:53

10/10 for the loos in JK's, always clean

Geoff


Joined: 25/06/2008
Posts: 1370

Message Posted:
15/10/2009 18:20

Don't be silly! Try UK - highest number of food poisining per 1000000 population of any civilised country.

scoobydoo


Joined: 10/11/2008
Posts: 2434

Message Posted:
15/10/2009 22:36

I always check the loo's and then get lost (accidentally on purpose) and end up in the kitchens, if it all looks bad we leave before we even order!



I have used this system where ever I have travelled and I am sure it has saved me on many an upset stomach.

Carndi


Joined: 12/06/2009
Posts: 613

Message Posted:
16/10/2009 13:42

Reminds me of the place my wife and I were in about 4 years ago when the cook came out carrying a live rat by the tail. He carried it across the street and released it. When he came back he had a huge grin on his face said something to us in Turkish and continued through to the kitchen as if it was a big joke.

Even though we had ordered we got up and left quickly and quietly

As I said it was about 4 years ago and for that reason I will not name the place as it could be under new management BUT as we have never been back we dont know.

Hector


Joined: 26/08/2008
Posts: 2352

Message Posted:
16/10/2009 18:26

Had lunch in Ezics in Girne recently. Took well over half an hour from ordering to eating. I then saw their van outside and it appears to me that the food is being prepared at the new Ezic and driven down in the van. How safe is that?

jinyx


Joined: 21/08/2009
Posts: 161

Message Posted:
16/10/2009 19:15

Once went to a eatery in hong kong and went to the toilet only to find their meat hung in there, beat that! ( by the way it wasnt the only meat well hung in there!) hee hee.

Bigcheese


Joined: 12/01/2009
Posts: 51

Message Posted:
19/10/2009 11:03

Haven't you ever seen UK t.v. programmes like 'A Life of Grime'? Restaurants in the UK are just as bad. The regulations in the UK might be stricter, but there are so many restuarants, the inspectors can't inspect them all of the time

bridie


Joined: 18/09/2008
Posts: 308

Message Posted:
19/10/2009 11:09

To address the title of the thread, yes they do have hygiene inspectors here in the TRNC.

davedee



Joined: 01/12/2008
Posts: 479

Message Posted:
19/10/2009 19:31

Hi yes they have inspectors i was in a restaurant when they arrived three of them 2 men one woman on a friday night @ around 8.30.

Perfect kitchen after half hour they were told to go forth and multiply.

negativenick


Joined: 10/11/2008
Posts: 6023

Message Posted:
19/10/2009 19:43

par for the course over 'ere...

negativenick


Joined: 10/11/2008
Posts: 6023

Message Posted:
19/10/2009 19:49

as my old Uncle Percy used to say "we each got to eat a peck of dirt before we die"......