An effective gloving or not

When I was in medical school, a microbiologist pointed out that the dirtiest part of a public toilet would be the door knob or door handle with the reason that the cleaner would clean commode and toilet floor in a particular time interval. But nobody would not bother to clean door knob that all toilet users need to touch it after their business. He claimed that million of germs could transmit from that source.

Based on above knowledge, I may be obsessed, I sometime see currency notes, which may have passed in the hands of hundreds of people before it comes to my pocket, as a kind of toilet door knob from the health point of view. I really don't know if there are harmful germs on £5 and £10 notes. But I believe that food handlers should not touch currency note while foods are being prepared.

I like Subway sandwich for many reasons. It is fresh. I can choose the type of bread and ingredients. I can order to toast it or not. I can select the salads and sauces (Mustard is my fav). It is also a good practice that food handlers are instructed to put gloves on while working.

Unfortunately, I came across a shop somewhere in Britain, which has been in sub-standard, in terms of hygiene although sale persons were on gloves.

When I got there, there were two sale persons in that Subway shop. I ordered BMT with Hearty Italian bread. The first person's job was cutting the bread and putting the meats inside, before toasting with cheese. After that, the second person put salads, which were cucumber, pepper, onion, iceberg as I chose, finishing by spreading with sauce. Then, it was packed. What was next!

The next step was that the sale assistant took the money with his semi-wet gloved hand, operating the machine and returning the change. When I got out of the shop, he had been dealing with next customers, repeating the same steps.

Any comment welcome.

If someone wants to know the actual place of this branch, I would be happy to tell for the sake of Subway customers. Just drop a comment.

Spreading sauce


finishing sandwich making


Holding the machine with food preparing hands, concentrating on digits


I was taking the change

Menu

These days, I don't have too much blogging time, so I am just sharing lunch menu of my hospital restaurant for the week (24th August 2009). Foods are rather cheap, but reasonably good.

Monday Lunch Menu
Starter
Home Made Celery Soup
Main Course
Roast Pork & Apple Sauce
Steak and Mushroom Pies with a Rich Gravy and Puff Pastry Topping
Breast of Chicken with a Wild Mushroom & Madeira Sauce

Vegetarian Option
Cauliflower Cheese

Dessert
Chocolate Sponge with White Chocolate Sauce
Rice Pudding
Selection of Cold Sweets

Tuesday Lunch Menu
Starter
Home Made Vegetable Soup
Main Course
Grilled Gammon with Pineapple
Chicken Curry with Rice / Chips
Beef Lasange

Vegetarian Option
Vegetable Pasta Bake - Fresh Vegetables and Pasta topped with
Breadcrumbs and Cheese

Dessert
Fruit Crumble with Custard
Rice Pudding
Selection of Cold Sweets

Wednesday Lunch Menu
Starter
Home Made Cauliflower & Broccoli Soup
Main Course
Roast Chicken and Seasoning
Beef Wellington with a Red Wine Sauce
Pasta Carbanara - Ribbons of Tagliatelli with a Mushroom and
Smoked Ham Cream Sauce

Vegetarian Option
Homemade Forest Mushroom Quiche

Dessert
Apple and Sultana Sponge with Custard
Rice Pudding
Selection of Cold Sweets

Thursday Lunch Menu
Starter
Home Made Watercress Soup
Main Course
Roast Beef and Yorkshire Pudding
Chicken Korma - a Spicy but not hot Curry in a Creamy Sauce
with Almonds, served with Rice / Chips
Fried Cod in a Home Made Batter with Lemon Wedges

Vegetarian Option
Mushroom and Spinach Lasagne - Layers of Pasta, Button Mushrooms
and Spinach in a White Wine Cream Sauce

Dessert
Fruit Crumble with Custard
Milk Pudding
Selection of Cold Sweets

Friday Lunch Menu
Starter
Home Made Tomato Soup
Main Course
Shepherds Pie
Faggots in Gravy with Mushy Peas
Braised Steak with Mushrooms. Shallots in a Red Wine Gravy

Vegetarian Option
Mushroom & Red Pepper Stroganoff

Dessert
Apple Pie with Custard
Rice Pudding
Selection of Cold Sweets

Updated (26/08/2009) 20:30





Restaurant

My food and others eating


Lunch (Vegetable pasta with chips and pea ) not my main meal

Updated 27/08/09 -09:30

Night off break fast: my fav British breakfast with eggs, bacon, sausage, baked beans, mushrooms and pudding ( Ma KOM တို႕စားတဲ့ ထမင္းနဲ႕ပဲျပဳတ္ေတာ့ မလြမ္းေသးဘူး။ ဘယ္တုန္းကမွလဲ မၾကိဳက္ခဲ့ဘူး။ .)

Orientalised East London

10 years back, we needed to go to Greenwich or central London if we wanted oriental foods. I remember there was also a Thai grocery shop in Earls Court which is far away from East London. Around 2005, I found out another shop in Walthomstow market street. I think it was a Thai shop, but most oriental foods were available from a variety of vermicelli, glutinous flour to bamboo shoot, dumpling and Vietnamese chilli sauce. Next, I came across a small Thai shop in Stratford shopping mall, but it closed after sometime.

During the last a couple of years, at nearby Tesco Extra in Gallion Reach, Chinese and Thai foods have been on the separate shelves. I saw some ready-made noodles and sauces. In the vegetable and salad row, more kinds of bird eyes chillies (hot+, ++,+++,++++) are waiting for their customers . One great improvement is I can get ung choi. (ကန္ဇြန္းရြက္)

As you know London is a cosmopolitan city and several kinds of foods are available, such as Mediterranean, Latin, Arabic, Indian, Bangladeshi and so on. Well, Chinese take-away shops are every where. But when we need Burmese style foods, we have to depend on Chinese and Indian shops. It is not bad, I think. In Upton park, even baby mango appears in its season. We can also get catfish (ငါးခူ), labelled with produce of Myanmar, and banana tree (they called it like that), at Bangladeshi shop. These are important ingredients when we make traditional fish soup while some people use handy canned fish.

Lamb curry, Ung Choi and mushroom and vegetable variety

Steve's roast duck

Today, good Friday. I have no on-call. That means staying at home, reading books and trying to eat something special. A few days ago, I got a whole duck with discount from Sainsbury. This is the good time to roast it.


It came out of oven after over 2 hours.



Ready to serve. Someone will come to my place this evening. I have got some marinades. Unfortunately, no big knife to chop it.

Tea time

This is my tea time snack for this evening. Not normally eating around 5-6 PM. But today, I missed my lunch. So I had to grab something.



Crisps and dips

Red : Salsa (Mainly onion and tomato purée and chillies)
White: soured cream and chive
Green: Avocado purée
Cream: Nacho cheese

Updated: 17:36

This is some info of British tea time from wiki

Afternoon tea

Afternoon tea is a light meal typically eaten between 3pm and 5pm. It originated in the United Kingdom, though various places that used to be part of the former British Empire also have such a meal. However, changes in social customs and working hours mean that most Britons only take afternoon tea on special/formal occasions.

Traditionally, loose tea would be served in a teapot with milk and sugar. This would be accompanied by various sandwiches (customarily cucumber, egg and cress, fish paste, ham, and smoked salmon), scones (with butter, clotted cream and jam — see cream tea) and usually cakes and pastries (such as Battenberg, fruit cake or Victoria sponge). The food would be often served in a tiered stand.

While afternoon tea used to be an everyday event, nowadays it is more likely to be taken as a treat in a hotel, café, or tea shop, although many Britons still have a cup of tea and slice of cake or chocolate at teatime. Accordingly, many hotels now market a champagne cream tea.

Anna Maria Stanhope, Duchess of Bedford, is credited as the first person to have afternoon tea in England.

High tea

High tea (also known as meat tea) is an early evening meal, typically eaten between 5pm and 6pm in the evening. It would be eaten as a substitute for both afternoon tea and the evening meal. It is now largely replaced by a later evening meal.

It would usually consist of cold meats, eggs or fish, cakes and sandwiches. In a family, it tends to be less formal and is an informal snack (featuring sandwiches, biscuits, pastry, fruit and the like) or else it is the main evening meal.

On farms or other working class environments, "high tea" would be the traditional, substantial meal eaten by the workers immediately after nightfall, and would combine afternoon tea with the main evening meal. See also The UK Tea Council Definition.

In recent years, high tea has become a term for elaborate afternoon tea, though this is American usage and mainly unrecognised in Britain. Such usage is disfavored by etiquette advisors, such as Miss Manners