Songbird76
Well-Known Member
I'm betting there are a lot of places that aren't real careful about cross contamination. We went to Dublin with a big group a few years ago, and we went to this restaurant...it was some sort of mongolian thing, I think? And it was basically this big rotating gridle/hot plate. So you went through and grabbed whatever meat vegetables and spices/sauces you wanted from a buffet, brought it to the hot plate, and people are standing all around it and the guys fry up your stuff as it rotates around and by the time it gets to the other side, it's done and they scoop it into a bowl and give it to you. But it doesn't get cleaned in between so whatever was in that spot before when you hand them your plate is going to get mixed in with yours, and the person's next to yours might leak through a bit. I saw someone's shrimp roll into the next person's food, and same with some carrot. I was thinking it would be a terrible place to go if you had an allergy. In my opinion, it was pretty bad anyway....the food had all fraternized, and it took so long to get from one side to the other that it was dry when you got it and it had pretty much every seasoning and sauce they had. It wasn't really what you chose. It didn't taste very good. I can't imagine it was safe for people with allergies. They supposedly had a separate hot plate for people with allergies, but if you do ALL the different things on that hot plate and people have different allergies, it doesn't help. Sure, you can take that person who doesn't eat pork and cook it on the other hotplate, but if someone else was allergic to onions and had their onion-free pork dish cooked on it, it's still had pork cooked on it, so it's not safe for the non-pork eater. You'd have to have a separate griddle thing for every ingredient...it just wouldn't work.
The place is a giant cross contamination. Same reason we've never been to Via Napoli
