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Mrs Lim is a cleaner at a food centre in the eastern part of Singapore. And she confesses that she is so put off that she never eats hawker food anymore.
Her meals are packed from home.
There is hardly enough time to rinse out the cloths that the cleaners use, which means the same piece of fabric not only wipes off the food scraps from the table and the mess on the trays, it also cleans off bird droppings.
“Most of the hawkers are always in a rush so the utensils are never washed properly,” she adds.
Read the full report in The New Paper on Sunday (Nov 18).
Confessions of a food centre cleaner: I never eat hawker food any more | The New Paper