In Canada, well in Ontario on every restaurant there’s a sign that has a check mark either red for that it didn’t past, yellow it past but small violations and green which is a pass. I always thought that Americans standards are really low when it comes to these things.
@@MrMikeyboy4 we do it by percentages in America. For example, the deli I work at made a 99% on our last inspection. I have no idea if the standards are better, worse, or equal to Canada's, but I would assume they are somewhat similar.
@@iamsethhasting8911 honestly I’m not sure how they do it here but I’m just saying they have signs posted out front of all restaurants here so it’s up to us (customers) to make the the choice. I’m just surprise this place is still open or at least made sure they fix everything and have gone through proper training before reopening
This has to be a money laundering business disguised as a restaurant. There's just no way any business owner in their right mind would have their restaurant closed that many times and lose that much money and still continue to open
My thoughts exactly, being a buffet it's very easy to launder money through there due to the lack of itemisation of food items and the place is somehow still open today. There's no way there isn't some sketchy cash being pumped into the business
I looked up the restaurant and I think I found out how they got so many violations. They wanted to cheap out where ever they could. Not wanting to pay the extra $10 for a food grade brush is resounding proof of that. The owner wanted the cheapest labor and the cheapest equipment possible.
@@TheAaaaaaaaaad12 I once saw a story, where a company in the US had consistent breakage of a particular part in their product, which cost them $75 to fix every single time. Turns out the Chinese manufacturer was skimping out on material quality, just so that they could save 1 cent on a $300 product.
It could almost be like a tourist attraction or something to go and see the restaurant that's gotten over 500 health code violations. Sure you'll more than likely get food poisoning but that's just the price for admission.
On that note, shout out to all the facility inspectors for looking out for us across the country. This is some gross stuff. Makes me wonder how many times things go unnoticed
often. i never get fountain sodas because all but one store ive worked at the workers never cleaned out the soda nozzles, if you take the nozzle off the soda spout where your soda comes out itll likely he full of slimy mildew and mold. i started working at a local circle k in kentucky and its soda nozzles hadnt been disassembled and cleaned for like a year, to the point when the health inspector came in they mentioned that they noticed that the soda machines are so clean now cause i dont let them get dirty, but im the only one so the soda machines and cappucino machines only get cleaned 1 time a week instead of every day, and our manager things its acceptable that the main night shift person refuses to learn how to disassemble the machines let alone clean them.
They don't look out for you though because people are still ordering there. In Germany this store would've been closed after one month in these conditions at most.
I knew a guy in high school that worked at a China Buffet. According to him, if food was straight up DROPPED on the floor, they were told to put it back on the plate and set it out. Among many other disgusting things. Made sure to steer clear of that place, that’s for sure.
Health dept finds that the soup broth is not actually soup broth, but rather toilet water from an unflushed broken toilet and allows the reataurant to keep its doors open to the public. Niiiiice...
Because the government doesn’t give a sh.... what we eat from restaurants. I have also seen cucarachas, and rats in my favorite Jewish restaurants. I reported it but nothing was done.
They are gonna wait till someone dies then they will close it down they do it with every food chain/ restaurant it takes someone to die for them to actually care
Instead of asking, “Why isn’t the place getting better?” I think the question should be, “Why isn’t this place permanently shut down by now?!?” That’s absolutely atrocious!!
You'd be surprised how many Chinese restaurants are nasty. I used to work at one with rats everywhere and cockroaches. You guys are just naive and think Chinese food is clean. It is just sugar, oil, and cheap meat.
Another question they should have asked after they were told they couldn't come in was "why can't we come in, do you have something to hide", Or something like that.
I"m glad that where I am, food places like this require a license to open a food business. Breach it like this, you loose the license and you can not trade. On top of being closed down and dragged into court. This place needs to be shut down and be issued with a huge fine endangering the public.
I worked in commercial Pest control for a while with a friend and let me tell you.. if you knew what happened behind 99% of all restaurants, you would NEVER eat out again.
@@acerune8378 there is or was a rat problem at most restaurants. At least one employee that serves or prepared your food is guaranteed to be under the influence of drugs. By nature everyone is paid nothing and relies on sucking up or "creating the best experience possible" to customers to make money, therefore all interaction is inherently uneven. Also, don't get ice. The chests are never cleaned enough.
@@DoYouEvenRift I already knew about everything you listed except the ice thing. However, I never get ice in my drinks anyway cause my teeth are sensitive to cold. Oh well, guess I’ll keep eating out.
Lmao I feel so bad for the camera man; it seems everyone always touches his camera. Even at 2:21 I know that guy walked all the way to him just to touch it 😂
Absolutely unacceptable, and just another reason why I cook for myself. You just can't trust people to take pride in providing a healthy eating environment.
I have worked in a few disaster kitchens because owners didn't stop these violations from happening but holy crap over 100 violations?! Food inspectors usually give you a heads up before they come to do your routine inspection there is no excuse to not at least minimize the violations to one or two if you try hard enough but this is inexcusable.
@@nicholaspatti1526 lmao nothing. That's the thing. Usually you're TOLD the day they are coming. You get like a week heads up. Of course, they are obviously allowed to pop out of the blue, they rarely do that. That's what extra disturbing. These people definitely knew inspectors were coming and did nothing about it lmao
Actually they don't give you a heads up. I know. I have been present for over 30 such inspections and not once were we told when they would get there. We get inspected twice a year. We only know it can happen any time in a 90 day period. This is part of why we do in house inspections. My last health dept inspection found zero violations. Most restaurants have between five and fifteen minor violations per inspection. Most of mine have had a few. But I have never personally witnessed an inspection with more than 22 violations and rarely more than a dozen. A restaurant with 30 violations would be one I would consider as having a serious problem with management who should rethink their career choices. 110? I just don't have the words.
In my city (and I’m sure many others as well) many health inspectors can be bought off. Unfortunately it’s VERY common. I worked at one place that was so disgusting I ended up quitting because I began feeling morally reprehensible being a part of people eating food from that place, but our health inspections were always 100%. The owner turned off the hot water to the dish machine to save money for Christ’s sake.
@@goddammitboi as a chef I can’t knowingly serve you spoiled fish, or produce that has been sitting out of refrigeration for days, gathering E. coli and listeria; then knowingly making you sick and say “hey, I’m a chef not the moral police.” That’s why there are standards and rules set in place like management needs to be certified in a food safety course every five years, and there always has to be a servsafe certified manager on duty at ALL times. We have a social responsibility that we accept when taking certain positions. It would weigh heavy on my conscious to knowingly make a customer sick. Fortunately, every Chef I know takes pride in their work and takes these responsibilities seriously. To not care is just sociopathic. So, the health inspectors come and make sure these rules and systems are being followed. Make sure our refrigerators are cooling properly, food isn’t stored on the floor where roaches and rodents could get to it, and making sure raw beef isn’t dripping blood and cross contaminating other foods….so in a way, they kind of are the moral police….
Not to be a dick, but most dish machines have their own water heater. But a restaurant still needs hot water for the triple-sink and hand-washing stations.
I was a sysco driver for 5 years. I've delivered to 100s of China buffets. The sad part is, most compared to this place, this isn't even that bad. I've seen WAY worse. And I'd always just wanna yell to the dining room EVERYONE LEAVE NOW!!!!!!
@@qwertmom i quit going to buffets cause there’s a mom and pop shop by the university with a kitchen that’s completely open and it has great reviews lol
Nothing new. This is normal SOP back home. I’ve actually seen them sharpening knives and prepping food on curbs next to storm drains. Their lack of wanting to integrate into society and learn the language, customs, laws is why there is so much animosity. This includes my in-laws where I refuse to eat at any of their establishments and they keep claiming American law doesn’t apply to them and only Chinese law does.
A Chinese restaurant near my house needs a shutdown too. Owners are rude, place is filthy and I don’t know why Chinese and Vietnamese people often try to fight when you point out their mistake
They'll argue with you over as little as .05 cents too, (in my town) the cheap bastards! They don't deal with pennies either, where i live, and just round off the total of your order to the next highest amount. Needless to say, i hardly ever place orders to go from Chinese restaurants, and being that they're so darn cheap i don't give them a tip when i do either.
We've got two Chinese restaurants in my small town. The one, a buffet style, is iffy most of the time. The other one, the owner takes great pride in giving kitchen tours to anyone he can drag into the kitchen! The place is not just spotless back there and in the stock room, walk in freezer and everywhere else back there, but I suspect it's clean enough one could use it to do surgery in with no bacterial worries! He required his staff to wear gloves and masks years before the pandemic hit, and all employees have to wear their hair up, wear a hair net, and keep all hair and net under a paper disposable hat as well; also full-front paper aprons for everyone except the dishwasher. He wears the hair up, net, and paper hat, but he gets full length rubber gloves and a rubber apron. If he didn't, he'd look like a giant prune at the end of his shift. As long as that gentleman continues to own and operate the place, I will never be the least bit worried about cleanliness there, and the food is excellent! Matter of fact, I wish his staff did house calls, my kitchen is pretty clean but could stand to be utterly sterilized once in awhile like their kitchen is. And it's not much more expensive than the buffet place! .
Our town has something similar, one we dont hear much about, it's a much bigger place than the other, the smaller place is LEAGUES better in every eau!
I understand the need to keep things clean in a kitchen, as a kitchen hand it is usually my responsibility. But having yo wear full length rubber gloves, hair nets and rubber aprons would be extremely annoying in a hot kitchen. If you make people wear to much gear you might end up with their sweat in your food
There’s a Chinese restaurant our family loves, it’s kind of out of the way since we moved in 2013 but we try not to go too long without having it, I took my boyfriend visiting from out of state there for the first time (and my most recent time) last summer. The first time I went there, I was in my mother’s womb, no joke. I’ve never personally seen the inside of their kitchen, but none of us have ever had the slightest hint that it’d be anything but clean. And after going there literally like 100 times, I feel pretty confident in saying it is. There was only one mishap I can remember, about half of my life ago, where they served me expired milk. Now if that sort of thing happened the first or even the third time I went somewhere, I might have some serious questions. But when you go somewhere _so_ many times, eventually it becomes a statistical inevitability.
I’ve never seen how the kitchen looks, but there’s a small, family owned Asian restaurant in my hometown called Mint Bistro that’s pretty popular and friendly; and the seating areas are always clean. Their cuisine is “Asian fusion,” meaning that they serve various types of Chinese, Japanese, and Thai dishes.
This is florida, i was a foodservice delivery driver in CA, AZ, WA and this is standard at 100% of chinese buffets across the country, confirmed by my foodservice delivery driver facebook group, personally ive delivered to over 150 different chinese buffets and they have everything ive seen in this video and the one about the same buffet a couple months prior, the only difference is sometimes i see even more. There has been multiple times ill deliver a stack of about 10 cases of fresh (not frozen) chicken in waxed cardboard boxes with plastic liners,no plastic sealed packaging, i set it outside the walk-in where they are supposed to put it away. when i return with another delivery about 3-4 days later the stack of 10 cases is down to about 3 cases still sitting in the exact same spot i put them days prior and the waxed boxes are now completely soaked from being being warm and wet and just falling apart.
Thinking of getting Chinese food? Think again. Years ago, while attending Community College in Toronto. I drove taxi on Friday & Saturday nights. 99% of our fares were radio calls. One Friday, I was dispatched to pick up an order at a Chinese eatery on Danforth Avenue. It was a summer evening and, as I waited at the open side kitchen door for the order, I saw two kitchen workers using a pail situated beside a crate of vegetables, as a urinal. There was lots of "splashing" onto the vegetable crate. When done, they simply "gave it a shake, zipped up and went back to cooking without any hand washing. I immediately left without the order and contacted my dispatcher. I was told the next evening that the dispatcher called the customer and she was thankful that I had NOT picked up the order. I called the City Health Department on Monday morning. Next Friday evening, as I was driving by this place, I saw a large closed sign on the door. p.s. The person I talked to at the City Health Department told me that the vast majority of restaurant health violations they receive are for Chines restaurants.
I've been in the refrigeration business since 1962 and I could tell you some stories. The good news is most restaurant owners/operators want to and do maintain a great place to eat. But the ones that don't and don't have a clue....I could tell some stories and most of you would not eat out again for a long time. Two hints I use to have a safe and pleasant eating environment. One, try to get to know the owners as you can pick up typically quickly how stringent they are in operating and preparing the food. Two, eat in high turn over restaurants - meaning they have a lot of customers - and in doing so the food does not have time to go bad. Three, avoid most buffets as most owners recycle the food back into the newer and fresh food as no one can tell by the taste or look. If the floors/furniture and restrooms are not kept then the kitchen will be the same. And no storage of any kind is suppose to be in any restaurant restroom. I found one place that stored all of their too go items such as the Styrofoam boxes and plastic knives/forks next to the urinals. And food inspectors do have the right and duty to shut down a restaurant on the spot and give the owners a time period in which to bring that standards up to pare.
This isn’t an isolated or rare occurrence. The Chinese buffet in La Grange, KY had dozens of similar, disgusting violations. Of course, the state health inspectors let them stay in business.
Why? It doenst sound like it is for the money that they are making at the restaurant, besides, THAT money wouldnt get them anywhere. Buffets arent usually profitable, too much food to a low price.
careful there, in the present day USA its more acceptable to die from getting food poisoning from these places than suggesting that is exclusive to asian buffets, thats the worst sin of all, speaking facts.
looking at the video, the inspectors actually can't do jack... think about it. the place was cited dozens of times numbering at at least 20 violations and more, per trip, and still that place kept reopening
@@mylifematter Well something caused COVID. I don't see why a Wuhan food market couldn't be the reason. It's not like we are actually going to get a real answer anyway because that would mean the WHO would have to do their jobs and they don't like doing that. To much hard work on their part.
covering camera indicates a measure of shame, which is fascinating since they have definitely gotta be shameless to run a business like this. but then again, i have seen restaurants do shady stuff too. small amounts but they still do it.. EX dropping food and utensils on the floor and continue to use them
I don’t understand why they can’t shut down a Restaurant that has a bad health inspection. It would be one thing if he had less that 5 violations but 518 violations?!
There were several Chinse members of a sports club I belonged to when I lived in Toronto. After I told him my cab driving "horror stories" he replied, you're right. I'm Chinese and I will never eat at a Chinese restaurant."
This seems like a common theme with these types of restaurants. Even a few near my house had numerous violations. Almost to the point where they were nearly closed down. Eventually they cleaned up the place but I still won't go in there. You never know. I'd rather just eat at home.
Home food gets bland after a while, but i dont eat as much restaurant food anymore, im not a healthy eater at all by the way, im a pretty picky eater, so Chinese food is never a option for me.
@@northernjersey2479 "In Florida, restaurant owners are not required to post the result of their examinations for the public to view". Maybe do some research before talking lol
Actually is a business owner, it is not a public place. It's a private business and they are allowed to tell anyone they want to leave or to stop filming
Nope you are wrong. They have violated public trust and served unclean food so they are allowed to go inside and expose their rotten unhygienic practices inside the kitchen!!!
there should be a law... ive worked in places that passed inspections but had mice peeing on your food. management knew, pest control knew, it took a bored employee to find their nest IN THE KITCHEN
518 wtf thats outrageous, my mom owns a restaurant and she knows people that owns restaurants and the worst restaurants have like 10-15 violation but this is just otherworldly
@@danielfuentes2999 go look at the wuhan market and tell us how surprised you are that chinas lower and middle class culture cares little of hygiene and cleanliness. Unless this Chinese buffet is open 24/7 there’s no reason in the world good enough to explain why that kitchen looks like that. Even then, I’ve worked in busier 24/7 kitchens that never looked like that. So yes, China is a disgusting place that has outdated societal norms that get people sick. Look at the cleaning practices these guys use. Obviously there are none. The accents suggest they lived there at one point too. Coincidence? Nah.
Betcha never set foot in China. Specifically mentioning Wuhan markets because that's where the virus was supposedly leaked? Coincidence? Nah. But what can I say, slums only exist in China, right?
They only care about money I was in a Chinese store and I bought a bag of chips it was 1 dollar and 16 cents I had 1 dollar and 15 cents he didn’t sell it to me for 1 penny
I'm retired from doing commercial pest control in California and that restaurant would have been permanently closed in California, I was involved in a few of those.
One of my friend's dad used to work in a Chinese restaurant. He quit after a couple of weeks because he was so disgusted at the unsanitary conditions in the kitchens and the way the chefs prepare the food and their poor hygiene. 😱🤢🤮
There was a Pizza Hut in Anchorage, AK that I went to a few times when I was there, and the Pepperonis were rancid and the place just seemed off. We had an inspector friend warn us about that place, and we never went back. I'm happy to announce that the restaurant is permanently closed. There's another Pizza Hut in Anchorage that is open, and I have happily eaten there because it is up to code on the sanitation standards.
Here's another "eye opener." Many years ago, my father was a meter reader for the Toronto Electric Utility. This was "back in the days" when all meters were inside, mostly in basements. He always had horror stories about the filth and unsanitary conditions of Chinese restaurants, especially the small, "hole-in-the-wall" eateries. Over the years, he saw in the basements of these dumps, dead rats and mice, live rats, mice and insects crawling over crates of vegetables, floors "covered" in rat and mouse sh*t, overflowing toilets, flying insects crawling along walls and even a few dead cats. He always assumed that the dead cats were the next day's Chef's Special. I will never, ever order Chinese food. p.s. I used to belong to a club. We had a few Chinese members. I recall one telling me, "hell, I'm Chinese and I'd never eat at a Chinese restaurant."
Thank you for informing us. After watching so many of these ugly vids, i dont trust chi restaurants. Especially those owned by chinese foreigners. Their culture doesnt care for the common consumer. I went to china 2 yrs ago for 2 weeks. I only ate the food i took from home. I did notice how chi culture doesnt care about the average consumer. Thats their culture. If i want chi food, im buying frozen or going to panda.
There is a buffet like this next to my house. Went once when we were moving and couldn’t use the kitchen. Bad idea. It’s been years but it was so bad I want to throw up just remembering it…
Speechless, as a restaurant owner myself.... Bruh you serious. I teach my employees this. "would you, according to your hygiene standards, serve that to your spouse /childrens or parents?" In laws not included 😂. But seriously, bruh.....
Dude is collecting health violations as if they're achievements LOL
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What’s shocking that after the first inspection people are still eating at this restaurant 😳
I doubt those people know of the violations.
There's no one to tell them. You'd have to pay someone to stand there during business hours to tell people not to eat
@@All-Hail-Gayle I meant the first video probably went viral so I was surprised to see people still eating there
@@Sean-vf7qr It didn't go viral. It happened three years ago and most people didnt hear about it.
@@All-Hail-Gayle makes sense then
The fact that they aren’t required to tell customers about the violations makes me sick!
In Canada, well in Ontario on every restaurant there’s a sign that has a check mark either red for that it didn’t past, yellow it past but small violations and green which is a pass. I always thought that Americans standards are really low when it comes to these things.
@@MrMikeyboy4 some states in the us require this now thankfully
Here in California, they have to keep inspection results posted at the door.
@@MrMikeyboy4 we do it by percentages in America. For example, the deli I work at made a 99% on our last inspection. I have no idea if the standards are better, worse, or equal to Canada's, but I would assume they are somewhat similar.
@@iamsethhasting8911 honestly I’m not sure how they do it here but I’m just saying they have signs posted out front of all restaurants here so it’s up to us (customers) to make the the choice. I’m just surprise this place is still open or at least made sure they fix everything and have gone through proper training before reopening
Why don't they make them close down? that's unacceptable they shouldn't be allowed to serve food ever again.
Imagine if Gordon Ramsay did a Kitchen Nightmares episode in that restaurant. He would literally have a heart attack.
Might even make Amy's Baking Company look good by comparison.
@@pressplayulysses lol love that show and the reference to Amy's lol
He’d probs “disappear” from how clearly this is a money laundering scheme lmao
@@pressplayulysses actually Amy’s Baking company, the restaurant itself was clean and organized, just that the owners were batshit crazy.
@@jordanscarborough1221 That ain’t a house anymore man
This has to be a money laundering business disguised as a restaurant. There's just no way any business owner in their right mind would have their restaurant closed that many times and lose that much money and still continue to open
Lmao yall keep forgetting asians own more than one business 🤣🤣🤣🤦🏾♂️
@@Neurotv4941 yea he’s prolly got a massage parlor for the prostitution’s ring, a strip club for the money laundering, and then a meth business
My thoughts exactly, being a buffet it's very easy to launder money through there due to the lack of itemisation of food items and the place is somehow still open today. There's no way there isn't some sketchy cash being pumped into the business
I wouldn't want them laundering my money either.
Absolutely 💯
I looked up the restaurant and I think I found out how they got so many violations. They wanted to cheap out where ever they could. Not wanting to pay the extra $10 for a food grade brush is resounding proof of that. The owner wanted the cheapest labor and the cheapest equipment possible.
what did you expect?
their chinese after all lmao
Thats a bit to much man
@@TheAaaaaaaaaad12 I once saw a story, where a company in the US had consistent breakage of a particular part in their product, which cost them $75 to fix every single time. Turns out the Chinese manufacturer was skimping out on material quality, just so that they could save 1 cent on a $300 product.
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"too" ... and it's simply the truth.
@@TheAaaaaaaaaad12 ight don’t bring racist into this lmao
It could almost be like a tourist attraction or something to go and see the restaurant that's gotten over 500 health code violations.
Sure you'll more than likely get food poisoning but that's just the price for admission.
...small price to pay for the bragging rights.
There are a bunch of CZcamsrs that go to the worst reviewed restaurants and businesses so that they can make videos about them.
They could sell the "I survived the [blank]" style t shirts
He's putting his hand out like he's trying to push them away with the force lol.
He’s trying to get a high five from them
Trying to hide his asian head
@@vibestylz8051 it would be really funny if the inspector high five with that guy
I wouldn’t touch those hands after seeing what’s going on in the kitchen.
The force would be assault
On that note, shout out to all the facility inspectors for looking out for us across the country. This is some gross stuff. Makes me wonder how many times things go unnoticed
often. i never get fountain sodas because all but one store ive worked at the workers never cleaned out the soda nozzles, if you take the nozzle off the soda spout where your soda comes out itll likely he full of slimy mildew and mold. i started working at a local circle k in kentucky and its soda nozzles hadnt been disassembled and cleaned for like a year, to the point when the health inspector came in they mentioned that they noticed that the soda machines are so clean now cause i dont let them get dirty, but im the only one so the soda machines and cappucino machines only get cleaned 1 time a week instead of every day, and our manager things its acceptable that the main night shift person refuses to learn how to disassemble the machines let alone clean them.
They don't look out for you though because people are still ordering there. In Germany this store would've been closed after one month in these conditions at most.
@@neonice i was talking about the ones that do though
@@twilightsparkle75 I appreciate that you go the extra mile and take that extra step for people. Thank you.
@@airraverstaz he’s a good worker. Not lazy. He probably gets taken advantage of by his coworkers too. Nice people like this don’t get far.
I knew a guy in high school that worked at a China Buffet. According to him, if food was straight up DROPPED on the floor, they were told to put it back on the plate and set it out. Among many other disgusting things. Made sure to steer clear of that place, that’s for sure.
And how long ago was that
@@bunnytoonz5150 Mmm like 3, 4 years 😂 so they been doing this for a while
@@blakethekilljoy damn thats not that long ago
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That is so gross. Live in china. They do number two and no wash hand
Health dept finds that the soup broth is not actually soup broth, but rather toilet water from an unflushed broken toilet and allows the reataurant to keep its doors open to the public. Niiiiice...
Wait really?
dude we get it stfu you don’t need to comment the same thing 5 times
Why is this restaurant still opened even after all of those public health safety violations?!!
Because the government doesn’t give a sh.... what we eat from restaurants. I have also seen cucarachas, and rats in my favorite Jewish restaurants. I reported it but nothing was done.
Bribery, unlikely to be a lie since they were caught many times doing violations
They are gonna wait till someone dies then they will close it down they do it with every food chain/ restaurant it takes someone to die for them to actually care
Why is it still. Open ? $$$$$$ money keeps it open. Cash $$ only.
Cause they're foreign
Instead of asking, “Why isn’t the place getting better?” I think the question should be, “Why isn’t this place permanently shut down by now?!?” That’s absolutely atrocious!!
Fr I wouldn't even eat from their no more💀
You'd be surprised how many Chinese restaurants are nasty. I used to work at one with rats everywhere and cockroaches. You guys are just naive and think Chinese food is clean. It is just sugar, oil, and cheap meat.
Another question they should have asked after they were told they couldn't come in was "why can't we come in, do you have something to hide", Or something like that.
Right, I saw the title and thought "2 mins and 37 seconds of why this place shouldn't be around anymore??"
It's a good place I still go to it
I"m glad that where I am, food places like this require a license to open a food business. Breach it like this, you loose the license and you can not trade. On top of being closed down and dragged into court.
This place needs to be shut down and be issued with a huge fine endangering the public.
That's everywhere doesn't work
I worked in commercial Pest control for a while with a friend and let me tell you.. if you knew what happened behind 99% of all restaurants, you would NEVER eat out again.
Haha I've worked in restaurants for years, this is completely true
Bet! Tell me! I need a reason not to eat out.
@@acerune8378 there is or was a rat problem at most restaurants. At least one employee that serves or prepared your food is guaranteed to be under the influence of drugs. By nature everyone is paid nothing and relies on sucking up or "creating the best experience possible" to customers to make money, therefore all interaction is inherently uneven. Also, don't get ice. The chests are never cleaned enough.
@@DoYouEvenRift I already knew about everything you listed except the ice thing. However, I never get ice in my drinks anyway cause my teeth are sensitive to cold. Oh well, guess I’ll keep eating out.
Yes that is myself also. I was involved of getting rid of over 100 rats at one place.
The fact they allowed the cameras back there previously, is astounding. They must’ve been like, “it’s not that bad, we’ll show them!” 🤣💀🤮
I don't believe they allowed cameras, but if you're not a boss you're not necessarily paid enough to tell people with cameras they have to leave
@KTV 4U my guy has golf clubs for arms
@KTV 4U Yes.
@KTV 4U Yeah lift the food up off the floor
@KTV 4U Lmfaooooo
Lmao I feel so bad for the camera man; it seems everyone always touches his camera. Even at 2:21 I know that guy walked all the way to him just to touch it 😂
lord only knows where his hands been…
they probably dont wash their hands after all that...
This comment had me crying 😭
Why didn't the news station send someone huge and intimidating to accompany the reporter and cameraman???
He must have REALLY had it in for the camera operator in order to do that.
the fact that this is real 😭 this looks like something you’d see as a joke
My guy it’s Florida
Absolutely unacceptable, and just another reason why I cook for myself. You just can't trust people to take pride in providing a healthy eating environment.
I have worked in a few disaster kitchens because owners didn't stop these violations from happening but holy crap over 100 violations?! Food inspectors usually give you a heads up before they come to do your routine inspection there is no excuse to not at least minimize the violations to one or two if you try hard enough but this is inexcusable.
How much for the courtesy call $$
117 violations but yeah holy crap that place needs to be permanently shut down their one step away from giving somebody food poisoning getting sued
They laundering money thru bussnises lol they are ccp operatives collecting cash $ and on stand by to posin the population’ my best guess
@@nicholaspatti1526 lmao nothing. That's the thing. Usually you're TOLD the day they are coming. You get like a week heads up. Of course, they are obviously allowed to pop out of the blue, they rarely do that. That's what extra disturbing. These people definitely knew inspectors were coming and did nothing about it lmao
Actually they don't give you a heads up. I know. I have been present for over 30 such inspections and not once were we told when they would get there. We get inspected twice a year. We only know it can happen any time in a 90 day period. This is part of why we do in house inspections. My last health dept inspection found zero violations. Most restaurants have between five and fifteen minor violations per inspection. Most of mine have had a few. But I have never personally witnessed an inspection with more than 22 violations and rarely more than a dozen. A restaurant with 30 violations would be one I would consider as having a serious problem with management who should rethink their career choices. 110? I just don't have the words.
this place needs to be shut down. it’s clear that the current owner has no capability of running a restaurant
1:14 "why is the place not getting better?"
No, a better question would be 'why is this damn place still open?' 🤦🏿♂️😒
First mistake - Trusting an adult in a Hollister shirt
The fact that nobody died after eating there just shows how strong the human body is lol
We don't know that for sure tho...
Mentally died because of the diarrhea they had for a week
@@Deeznootsgotteem lol
Fun fact: I’ve been at this same place multiple times back then
Then they invented Covid.
In my city (and I’m sure many others as well) many health inspectors can be bought off. Unfortunately it’s VERY common. I worked at one place that was so disgusting I ended up quitting because I began feeling morally reprehensible being a part of people eating food from that place, but our health inspections were always 100%. The owner turned off the hot water to the dish machine to save money for Christ’s sake.
lol They're health inspectors not the moral police
@@goddammitboi I don’t really see the point you’re trying to make ….
@@goddammitboi as a chef I can’t knowingly serve you spoiled fish, or produce that has been sitting out of refrigeration for days, gathering E. coli and listeria; then knowingly making you sick and say “hey, I’m a chef not the moral police.” That’s why there are standards and rules set in place like management needs to be certified in a food safety course every five years, and there always has to be a servsafe certified manager on duty at ALL times. We have a social responsibility that we accept when taking certain positions. It would weigh heavy on my conscious to knowingly make a customer sick. Fortunately, every Chef I know takes pride in their work and takes these responsibilities seriously. To not care is just sociopathic. So, the health inspectors come and make sure these rules and systems are being followed. Make sure our refrigerators are cooling properly, food isn’t stored on the floor where roaches and rodents could get to it, and making sure raw beef isn’t dripping blood and cross contaminating other foods….so in a way, they kind of are the moral police….
@@tiltingatwindmills3243 very well said sir. If I ever become a millionaire I know who to hire to be my personal chef 🤣
Not to be a dick, but most dish machines have their own water heater. But a restaurant still needs hot water for the triple-sink and hand-washing stations.
It should be mandatory for every restaurant to post the last health inspection report in plane view so people can see it.
Wait a second….
The reporter and camera throw out assault charges like it’s candy on Halloween and then push the other guys arm away??? 🙄
“Self defense” lmao
To those who are pointing out that it’s specifically Chinese buffets, you’ll be surprised what you find in American buffets as well.
no doubt. Buffets are always sketchy, especially now.
yeah but more common in chinese. gotta love virgins like you....
@@professorfinesser4015 bro....
@@professorfinesser4015 ??
@@professorfinesser4015 😳
I was a sysco driver for 5 years. I've delivered to 100s of China buffets. The sad part is, most compared to this place, this isn't even that bad. I've seen WAY worse. And I'd always just wanna yell to the dining room EVERYONE LEAVE NOW!!!!!!
anonymous rating on yelp and google maps. that should flag them down
you should have called a health inspector
@@spagootest2185 I did on a few.
For someone who's only been to like 1or 2 China buffets in his life, I am now scarred for an eternity...
@@qwertmom i quit going to buffets cause there’s a mom and pop shop by the university with a kitchen that’s completely open and it has great reviews lol
After 100 violations the city should have said “that’s enough”
Health inspector: How many health violations do you want?
China buffet: *Yes.*
Shut this place down. He has no regards for his customers. Just disgusting. Please update us again.
He has no regards for people's health
I googled it, and it says they’re permanently closed
@@kaylawhite7280 Great
@@kaylawhite7280 can you give me the link?
@@MinkyTwats Just google Royal Buffet Miami FL
That is so gross agreed
Sorry WPLG, this is no longer the restaurant’s problem. You need to interview the authorities.
Completely right
Exactly
Nothing new. This is normal SOP back home. I’ve actually seen them sharpening knives and prepping food on curbs next to storm drains. Their lack of wanting to integrate into society and learn the language, customs, laws is why there is so much animosity. This includes my in-laws where I refuse to eat at any of their establishments and they keep claiming American law doesn’t apply to them and only Chinese law does.
The previous video "don't touch my camera" as they use it to attempt to force their way into the place.
A Chinese restaurant near my house needs a shutdown too. Owners are rude, place is filthy and I don’t know why Chinese and Vietnamese people often try to fight when you point out their mistake
In there culture they don't take well to any criticism. They expected to be perfect
@@mariec3527 I can respect that. Although a little accountability would be a cherry on top
They'll argue with you over as little as .05 cents too, (in my town) the cheap bastards! They don't deal with pennies either, where i live, and just round off the total of your order to the next highest amount. Needless to say, i hardly ever place orders to go from Chinese restaurants, and being that they're so darn cheap i don't give them a tip when i do either.
@@onedayatatime8756 You're worried about 5 cents, you sound like the cheap one.
@@jackgoff4859 no u are
We've got two Chinese restaurants in my small town. The one, a buffet style, is iffy most of the time. The other one, the owner takes great pride in giving kitchen tours to anyone he can drag into the kitchen! The place is not just spotless back there and in the stock room, walk in freezer and everywhere else back there, but I suspect it's clean enough one could use it to do surgery in with no bacterial worries! He required his staff to wear gloves and masks years before the pandemic hit, and all employees have to wear their hair up, wear a hair net, and keep all hair and net under a paper disposable hat as well; also full-front paper aprons for everyone except the dishwasher. He wears the hair up, net, and paper hat, but he gets full length rubber gloves and a rubber apron. If he didn't, he'd look like a giant prune at the end of his shift. As long as that gentleman continues to own and operate the place, I will never be the least bit worried about cleanliness there, and the food is excellent! Matter of fact, I wish his staff did house calls, my kitchen is pretty clean but could stand to be utterly sterilized once in awhile like their kitchen is. And it's not much more expensive than the buffet place!
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Our town has something similar, one we dont hear much about, it's a much bigger place than the other, the smaller place is LEAGUES better in every eau!
I understand the need to keep things clean in a kitchen, as a kitchen hand it is usually my responsibility. But having yo wear full length rubber gloves, hair nets and rubber aprons would be extremely annoying in a hot kitchen. If you make people wear to much gear you might end up with their sweat in your food
There’s a Chinese restaurant our family loves, it’s kind of out of the way since we moved in 2013 but we try not to go too long without having it, I took my boyfriend visiting from out of state there for the first time (and my most recent time) last summer. The first time I went there, I was in my mother’s womb, no joke.
I’ve never personally seen the inside of their kitchen, but none of us have ever had the slightest hint that it’d be anything but clean. And after going there literally like 100 times, I feel pretty confident in saying it is.
There was only one mishap I can remember, about half of my life ago, where they served me expired milk. Now if that sort of thing happened the first or even the third time I went somewhere, I might have some serious questions. But when you go somewhere _so_ many times, eventually it becomes a statistical inevitability.
@@joshgoodwin7386 Seriously, reading this just made me think how much it would suck to work there lol
I’ve never seen how the kitchen looks, but there’s a small, family owned Asian restaurant in my hometown called Mint Bistro that’s pretty popular and friendly; and the seating areas are always clean. Their cuisine is “Asian fusion,” meaning that they serve various types of Chinese, Japanese, and Thai dishes.
This is florida, i was a foodservice delivery driver in CA, AZ, WA and this is standard at 100% of chinese buffets across the country, confirmed by my foodservice delivery driver facebook group, personally ive delivered to over 150 different chinese buffets and they have everything ive seen in this video and the one about the same buffet a couple months prior, the only difference is sometimes i see even more. There has been multiple times ill deliver a stack of about 10 cases of fresh (not frozen) chicken in waxed cardboard boxes with plastic liners,no plastic sealed packaging, i set it outside the walk-in where they are supposed to put it away. when i return with another delivery about 3-4 days later the stack of 10 cases is down to about 3 cases still sitting in the exact same spot i put them days prior and the waxed boxes are now completely soaked from being being warm and wet and just falling apart.
ngl the camera guy was kind of a karen saying "thats assult" when the owner didnt want them to come inside
This guy is speedrunning any% and all the achievements for all violations possible.
how is it any% if it is all violations category
Thinking of getting Chinese food? Think again. Years ago, while attending Community College in Toronto. I drove taxi on Friday & Saturday nights. 99% of our fares were radio calls. One Friday, I was dispatched to pick up an order at a Chinese eatery on Danforth Avenue. It was a summer evening and, as I waited at the open side kitchen door for the order, I saw two kitchen workers using a pail situated beside a crate of vegetables, as a urinal. There was lots of "splashing" onto the vegetable crate. When done, they simply "gave it a shake, zipped up and went back to cooking without any hand washing. I immediately left without the order and contacted my dispatcher. I was told the next evening that the dispatcher called the customer and she was thankful that I had NOT picked up the order. I called the City Health Department on Monday morning. Next Friday evening, as I was driving by this place, I saw a large closed sign on the door. p.s. The person I talked to at the City Health Department told me that the vast majority of restaurant health violations they receive are for Chines restaurants.
That is terrifying jesus christ
I've seen you posting this comment everywhere. Thank you for warning us. PEOPLE NEED TO KNOW!!!
Yeah I will never stop eating Chinese
They (chinese restaurants) have always terrible food safety and sanitation.
That is why I do not eat at their restaurants anymore
I can’t believe people still eat at these type of places
News Crew: Shoves camera down man's throat
Man: Pushes camera
News Crew: Surprised Pikachu Face "tHaT's aSsAuLt"
I know I’m late but whoever typed up those violations deserve 10 raises 😭
I've been in the refrigeration business since 1962 and I could tell you some stories. The good news is most restaurant owners/operators want to and do maintain a great place to eat. But the ones that don't and don't have a clue....I could tell some stories and most of you would not eat out again for a long time. Two hints I use to have a safe and pleasant eating environment. One, try to get to know the owners as you can pick up typically quickly how stringent they are in operating and preparing the food. Two, eat in high turn over restaurants - meaning they have a lot of customers - and in doing so the food does not have time to go bad. Three, avoid most buffets as most owners recycle the food back into the newer and fresh food as no one can tell by the taste or look. If the floors/furniture and restrooms are not kept then the kitchen will be the same. And no storage of any kind is suppose to be in any restaurant restroom. I found one place that stored all of their too go items such as the Styrofoam boxes and plastic knives/forks next to the urinals. And food inspectors do have the right and duty to shut down a restaurant on the spot and give the owners a time period in which to bring that standards up to pare.
110 violations is crazy but those news reporters yelling that he's assaulting them when all he did was gently push the camera away is so goofy 🤣
110 violations should be closed forever these folks never ever have license again . & should not work in food industries
This isn’t an isolated or rare occurrence. The Chinese buffet in La Grange, KY had dozens of similar, disgusting violations. Of course, the state health inspectors let them stay in business.
Why? It doenst sound like it is for the money that they are making at the restaurant, besides, THAT money wouldnt get them anywhere. Buffets arent usually profitable, too much food to a low price.
careful there, in the present day USA its more acceptable to die from getting food poisoning from these places than suggesting that is exclusive to asian buffets, thats the worst sin of all, speaking facts.
I know this place is already closed permanently few years back in 2016
It has been years since this video. Are they still open?
Jon Taffer should rescue this place.
They only care about money
Thanks to the health inspectors. They practically prevent whole pandemics.
looking at the video, the inspectors actually can't do jack... think about it. the place was cited dozens of times numbering at at least 20 violations and more, per trip, and still that place kept reopening
Are you the one still pushing food market theory of the wuhan virus? Just don't practice cannibalisms and your family should be fine.
@@mylifematter Well something caused COVID. I don't see why a Wuhan food market couldn't be the reason. It's not like we are actually going to get a real answer anyway because that would mean the WHO would have to do their jobs and they don't like doing that. To much hard work on their part.
Yeah okkkkk
Gordon Ramsay would be fuming at this restaurant if he did a kitchen nightmares episode of this
Inspector:"You clean."
Chinaman:"I pay?"
Inspector:"🤔 hm, ok you pay."
Its amusing how stupid people can be when they're caught doing something wrong and try to cover your live camera with their hands.
covering camera indicates a measure of shame, which is fascinating since they have definitely gotta be shameless to run a business like this.
but then again, i have seen restaurants do shady stuff too. small amounts but they still do it.. EX dropping food and utensils on the floor and continue to use them
Right, cuz the owner knew it's a shame and guilty of it.
As if doing that will magically delete the footage 🤣🤣🤣
Welcome to China.
wasnt a live camera. there were very apparent cuts through the video
This is why I have started cooking my own food. I buy from local farmers. Surprisingly cheap
Cooking at home definitely sounds like a much better idea
I don’t understand why they can’t shut down a Restaurant that has a bad health inspection.
It would be one thing if he had less that 5 violations but 518 violations?!
There were several Chinse members of a sports club I belonged to when I lived in Toronto. After I told him my cab driving "horror stories" he replied, you're right. I'm Chinese and I will never eat at a Chinese restaurant."
This seems like a common theme with these types of restaurants. Even a few near my house had numerous violations. Almost to the point where they were nearly closed down. Eventually they cleaned up the place but I still won't go in there. You never know. I'd rather just eat at home.
is f*n corrupted country' & democracy what U accept
Home food gets bland after a while, but i dont eat as much restaurant food anymore, im not a healthy eater at all by the way, im a pretty picky eater, so Chinese food is never a option for me.
Always the ones owned by foreigners.
It’s ingrained they want to give fast service so hygiene is thrown out the window
"That's assault!" ... lol, and then proceeds to make physical contact with the guy touching the camera.. wtf?
As of Covid-19 season, I no longer eat at restaurants!
I hope there's a part 3 to this, got the random recommendation recently for the original 110 violation vid and then this update today
Of all the places to dine in Miami, who looks around and goes, “hey this disgusting as Chinese Buffet will do”? Lmao 😂
If people knew about the violations, they obviously wouldn’t go there? 🤡
@@stanxlin You do realize that the health inspection is required to be placed on the front of the building, right?
@@northernjersey2479 They obviously didn’t have them up!
@@symone5746 What’s obvious? Did it say that in the story? Do you know how illegal it is to not display your health inspection?
@@northernjersey2479 "In Florida, restaurant owners are not required to post the result of their examinations for the public to view". Maybe do some research before talking lol
Why can't he just say he is a actual professional food critic and he isn't allowed to prevent them filming?
Actually is a business owner, it is not a public place. It's a private business and they are allowed to tell anyone they want to leave or to stop filming
Nope you are wrong. They have violated public trust and served unclean food so they are allowed to go inside and expose their rotten unhygienic practices inside the kitchen!!!
@@tillyfreeman5192 bruh that’s not how the world works
Not on the sidewalk. That’s assault.
You know that food gotta be good
Why is the question in the room `Why is it not getting better?`why not just close it for ever??
I would have loved to have seen how Gordon Ramsay would have reacted to this
He would e straight told them to shut down and tell everyone in dining area to come look at what they’re served
He would have done a profanity-laden reenactment of Hell's Kitchen on the SPOT.
If homeboy touched the camera & we heard one more “don’t touch my camera” buddy would’ve been sleeping on the job 🤣
Lol 😂
That camera is now contaminated!
Does anyone know if it’s still open?
Thank you for let us know about the restaurants grade !!
Someone should post a large sign that says "health violations- don't eat here" in front of the buffet.
and include big biohazard symbol
The sequel we didn’t ask for, but the sequel we so desperately needed
CZcams recommended just digging this mans grave deeper, who hired a hit man?
How the hell is it possible to have 110 violations?
there should be a law... ive worked in places that passed inspections but had mice peeing on your food. management knew, pest control knew, it took a bored employee to find their nest IN THE KITCHEN
518 wtf thats outrageous, my mom owns a restaurant and she knows people that owns restaurants and the worst restaurants have like 10-15 violation but this is just otherworldly
Gordon Ramsay will have a field day for this...
Where is this
buffets are by default nasty. When so much food is being moved around every hour, these restaurants can't be clean. It's best to avoid buffets.
Maybe it's safer to eat from a trash can than eating in this "buffet"
Same thing no difference
That’s just disgusting I’m glad I haven’t ate there yet
What if Jon Taffer did an episode on this restaurant?
It's disgusting, literally these kind of behaviors generate fatal consequences, for example the covid
Covid had nothing to do with restaurant inspections lmfao
How does this relate to covid at all??
@@Will-pp8wf because he's probably linking anything with Chinese influence to covid because the original infection came from there
@@danielfuentes2999 go look at the wuhan market and tell us how surprised you are that chinas lower and middle class culture cares little of hygiene and cleanliness. Unless this Chinese buffet is open 24/7 there’s no reason in the world good enough to explain why that kitchen looks like that. Even then, I’ve worked in busier 24/7 kitchens that never looked like that. So yes, China is a disgusting place that has outdated societal norms that get people sick. Look at the cleaning practices these guys use. Obviously there are none. The accents suggest they lived there at one point too. Coincidence? Nah.
Betcha never set foot in China. Specifically mentioning Wuhan markets because that's where the virus was supposedly leaked? Coincidence? Nah. But what can I say, slums only exist in China, right?
They only care about money I was in a Chinese store and I bought a bag of chips it was 1 dollar and 16 cents I had 1 dollar and 15 cents he didn’t sell it to me for 1 penny
Are you serious lol
CTFU!!!!
Hahahaha. Smash the bag in front of him.
Lmao
I'm retired from doing commercial pest control in California and that restaurant would have been permanently closed in California, I was involved in a few of those.
Where is this restaurant located?
That's digusting. Glad health inspector do their excellent jobs to find restaurants are not follow health food and safety guidelines
One of my friend's dad used to work in a Chinese restaurant. He quit after a couple of weeks because he was so disgusted at the unsanitary conditions in the kitchens and the way the chefs prepare the food and their poor hygiene. 😱🤢🤮
Remember that when you go out to eat... that’s why I can’t eat out anymore. I trust a few local diners , an go their regularly zz
I’ve worked in lots of restaurants. If most people only knew of the bad habits and unsanitary things that happen, no one would ever go out to eat.
Wow they should be ashamed of thenselves
How is this place not shut down !!!!!!!!!
My restaurant serves premium cat meat. Very clean. But we list as kung pow chicken. Is that violation in USA?
There was a Pizza Hut in Anchorage, AK that I went to a few times when I was there, and the Pepperonis were rancid and the place just seemed off. We had an inspector friend warn us about that place, and we never went back. I'm happy to announce that the restaurant is permanently closed. There's another Pizza Hut in Anchorage that is open, and I have happily eaten there because it is up to code on the sanitation standards.
Here's another "eye opener." Many years ago, my father was a meter reader for the Toronto Electric Utility. This was "back in the days" when all meters were inside, mostly in basements. He always had horror stories about the filth and unsanitary conditions of Chinese restaurants, especially the small, "hole-in-the-wall" eateries. Over the years, he saw in the basements of these dumps, dead rats and mice, live rats, mice and insects crawling over crates of vegetables, floors "covered" in rat and mouse sh*t, overflowing toilets, flying insects crawling along walls and even a few dead cats. He always assumed that the dead cats were the next day's Chef's Special. I will never, ever order Chinese food. p.s. I used to belong to a club. We had a few Chinese members. I recall one telling me, "hell, I'm Chinese and I'd never eat at a Chinese restaurant."
Thank you for informing us. After watching so many of these ugly vids, i dont trust chi restaurants. Especially those owned by chinese foreigners. Their culture doesnt care for the common consumer. I went to china 2 yrs ago for 2 weeks. I only ate the food i took from home. I did notice how chi culture doesnt care about the average consumer. Thats their culture. If i want chi food, im buying frozen or going to panda.
Damm That 🦇💩🤪
every building in downtown toronto is gross in the back lol
How the hell do those places even stay open??? You would think people would be too grossed out to give them their money!
Was your dad also a peter eater?
This is a reflection on them and how they are.
2:22 guy wanted a high five for all of his accomplishments
When the community needs to take things into their own hands.
They are - and then they shove whatever is in their hands into their mouths, it seems...
There is a buffet like this next to my house. Went once when we were moving and couldn’t use the kitchen. Bad idea. It’s been years but it was so bad I want to throw up just remembering it…
No one:
The Chinese worker: ✋🏻
Speechless, as a restaurant owner myself.... Bruh you serious.
I teach my employees this.
"would you, according to your hygiene standards, serve that to your spouse /childrens or parents?"
In laws not included 😂.
But seriously, bruh.....