When I was around 5-6 years old, I visited a "bakery" in Da Nang where they made those Lunar New Year cakes ( Moon Cakes???). It was a horrible and terrifying experience. I saw sooooooooooo many flies and roaches. I didn't see any rats but I pretty sure there were plenty of them too. The "bakers" were the worst. They didnt wear hairnets, aprons, gloves or even washed their hands. After that, I have never tasted another moon cake. I feel that I have a minor phobia of VNmese products. When I go to the store, I always make sure that the products that I am buying are either from the US, Japan and S. Korea. And most importantly, I always make sure that the products that I am buying are NOT from VN. My family makes fun of me because of this. huhuhu HELP! Are sanitation conditions any better in VN after 14 years????

What do you think

what the hell. people spit in your food here in america at fast food joints. scratch thier @$$ and pubic hairs. do you still go out to eat? when i was younger and worked at a food processing factory. all the Puerto Rican and white kids thought it would be funny to spit in microwaved foods and rub thier heads for the dandruff to come off on it and then ship them to supermarkets. i bet you you ate it with no prob. so who's to say the U.S. or japanese products are any cleaner.

dude, bugs are an awesome source of protein. especially meal worms and fried baby bee's

She said 15 years ago..

Man, it improved a lot now.

Yeah Vietnam is very clean now and wouldn't be far off from the international standard since we're trying to attract the tourist dollars and partly due to the rising economy.

In tourist districts, VN is better and improved. I would not say that it is up to standards of the western industrialized world. In non-tourist communities, sanitation is not a primary concern. Unfortunately, before you can begin to worry about sanitation in your establishments, you have to be making a sustained profit. When your primary concern is still trying to make a dollar, you don't have the time or energy to something as trivial as sanitation.

Now most food products you would buy usually is not made in VN. It may be a product of VN, but not made/packaged there. If true, then the sanitation standards of that country applies.

Oh grow up! Just eat it to help the Vietnamese people, you're not going to die from eating one thing that's been biten by a fly.

yes, they're sanitized. all the finished products are inspected before they're being shipped overseas. most of the products are packed to the american standards, i.e., by machines not by manual labor like they used to be. products are FDA approved.

Indeed. Excellent source of protein.

That's the spirit. who's up for some worms dipped in chocolate ...

iam hungry for some water beatles, fried snake, and steamed frog legs
hmm HMM hmm

I heard of the spit part, but the rest OMG!
I worked for Mr. Sub before, we wore gloves when preparing food, but in the storage room some use their bare hands to get food. My friend worked at a noodle (italian) restaurant, they let you eat left-overs later during the night when they gotten tired and recommended me not to go but just happen once in a while.

u know something is better off not knowing
like this one time when i got drunk and woke up naked on some guy bed, do u want to know what happen, cause i dont
so something r better off not knowing

lol - theres lotsa fun stuff happening in this "clean" western society

my friends who worked at wendy's have the "extended 10 second rule", if the patty drops on the ground and is picked up in 10 sec then its good to go - you can extend the time with a 5 sec buffer if the patty is moved while on the ground (like with your foot) - lol, and they through patties at each other for food fights

Oh geez that's nice to know. I guess I should eat less fastfood.. not that I eat much but anyway.

"Oh grow up! Just eat it to help the Vietnamese people, you're not going to die from eating one thing that's been biten by a fly. "

I might not die, but I'll get sick. Sometimes, I would rather die than be sick. My health is my upmost concern. I guess because I'm a Clinical Lab Scientist, I tend to look at things through a microscope.

my classmate told me once a fly flew into a batter container at burger king they didnt want to touch it so they stirred it in with the batter anyways AHAHAHHA

if thats true you should walk with gloves around at all times. door knobs on public places contain small amounts of feces. (this can be applied to any object and any other source of germs)you touch it wipe your eyes then BOOM! or eat something with those same hands and BOOM! people think washing thier hands gets rid of bacteria, but if you turned the faucet on with your hands doesnt the bacteria cling to the handles? then when you finish and turn it off arent you touching the same bacteria? i know people that have this compulsive disorder. and avoid everything at all times.

to me i say who cares??