There are so many reasons why I am not a restaurant fanatic, one of them is that the food is not always to my liking--the taste is always awful. Very few times I have dined out and enjoyed the food. The other reason is hygiene. Since my childhood,I don't where I picked this mentality but truth is--I have always doubted restaurants or hotel food sanitation. I worked partly in one of them as a dishwasher in Portland. I remember the owner picking all leftover oils and re-served it, all he always opposed my slowly and careful cleaning process,instead he should prefer the dish washing machine,because of the volumes of dishes--it was always unable to neatly clean them properly,then turned on wiping off the remains with sanitary towels. Each day, the health inspector was to visit--the boss would warn us in advance and do the needful. Isn't this corruption?

I am now volunteering with a group that serves homeless people, we do prepare food for them--we do also eat together with these homeless people.But one of the chef--all the time I have observed her nails--they are extremely long and dirty inside yet she uses her bare hands to make this harder times dinner as we call it. Every time, I see these nails--one thing that comes to my mind--how does she wipe her ass when she visits the restrooms? What about other germs she may pick up from here and there? I truly think these things happen in all dining places. I may be wrong. I refused to eat the hard times dinner but I equally participate in making it.