Sunday, September 28, 2008
The China Dairy Scare
The recent dairy scare caused by unethical Chinese dairy producers has resulted in much fear in consumers. Without any doubt, this has also led to the loss in confidence for any kind of products made in China.
I'm not an avid dairy consumer. I'm not affected by this dairy scare cos I don't drink milk. I think the only China dairy milk product I've ever eaten is the Rabbit Milk candy.
Last Wednesday, Lawrence and I went for lunch in a cafe. Typically, which a cafe serves tea, the milk came in a separate small jug. Yes, so we were served with our tea and milk. Not knowing that I don't take milk, Lawrence pushed the jug of milk in front of me. As a reflex, I just pushed it back to him and told him that I don't take milk, esp fresh milk.
So he poured a big dash of milk into his milk, before he could stir his tea, I just popped him a question, "Hey, you din ask them if the milk is from China?" Oh... I thought that was pretty funny to scare him and the best thing he always did was to play along with me. Haha... He gave me a traumatic look and told me "Cant be la.."
The next moment before I could make another response, he called the waiter to our table and asked,"Is this milk from China?" Gosh.. The OS I had was, "I can't believe you really asked that!" I think that the waiter must be really shocked at the question or perhaps he didn't understand the question. So he asked us to repeat the question again in Chinese. That was when both of us realised that the waiter was a Chinese national. Oh no... I felt so weird cos we were asking a China Chinese if the milk was from China. How ironic? The best of all was Lawrence repeated that question again in Mandarin. So the waiter replied that he din know where the source of the milk and assured us that he would go find out for us.
I felt so pai seh and we both couldn't stop laughing. Still Lawrence drank that tea with the unknown milk. Then the same waiter came over and served Lawrence with his beef stew and said "This is not from China." Faint... We simply burst into laughter again. Who cares if the beef is from China anot? I don't wanna know cos I doubt the beef is from China, but then Lawrence added that perhaps the butter added to his mashed potato could be from China. Funny..
From a mindless joke of mine, we did had some fun, all cos of a good company who played along. I really think that was so funny and was indeed a good laugh for the week. But then I couldn't help but wonder what was that waiter's OS when we questioned the quality of the products of his hometown. This dairy scare has also proven to us how one black sheep can destroy the reputation of a whole nation. I merely thought that China took much blood and sweat to build up the good reputation they had through the most remarkable Olympics I've seen, but yet everything is gone overnight with such terrible scandal. What a pity!!!Labels: Dairy Scare, Lunch
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