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Q: How do your react when you find hair in your food?
I've been experiencing this situation quite often since I've been in China. I found hair in restaurant dishes, in bread, steamed buns etc...It grosses me out so badly that I do not want to eat the product any more. How about your experiences?
If I must pay for food in the Restaurant, I complain, and demand fresh dish.
If I am invited to a meal in the private home, I silently remove hair, and (don't) finish my meal.
It didn't happened to me in China yet. I must add, to be able to find one hair, you must see well.
I must use glasses when reading, and I never have my reading glasses on when eating. LOL
bigasspanda:
Haha! I need my glasses as well...But it happened that I had my glasses on when I saw the gigantic black hair coming out of my piece of bread right this very morning!
i will just continue eating......spend money on that food and i have to eat it...if that was in a public place..........if it was at home i know that's my gf's hair so i will just continue eating...some people wish to have food ...any food.....so why should i be picky?!!!!!
LAR:
"so why............picky!!!!!!!!!!!!!" Well said! Props to you.
Once, I was out in the Restaurant in Austria with two female friends. It was summer time, and we sat on the Hotel terrace, full of trees.
As soon as we got our appetizers, one bird poop one of my friends shoulder. She was very sad, washing her dress in the bathroom, and me, ......I was 'dying' of holding my laugh, and pretending to be serious.
We 'forgot' whole mischief, and enjoyed our summer eat out in the city.
Few minutes into our enjoyment, another bird (or the same one) unload a poop on an area in the middle of our table.
In my imagination, I was seeing bird is saying: 'are u still here?'
Week after 'poop lunch' we stayed exclusively at the 'home cooking' venues.
mArtiAn:
Not restaurant related but I got crapped on once, and i'm talking a small bucket-load, and when I looked up all I could see was this big pigeon's arse sticking out over the side of the roof above me.
Poop stories are fun.
Hair in your food? Not good. Food in your hair? Also not good.
I've found cockroaches on my plate twice. Neither was half eaten fortunately. What 'can' you do but get a free meal you no longer wish to eat?
Personally I eat in places where you can see the food being prepared as often as possible. Also the two places I found the bugs were both large, quite nice looking restaurants. Seems it's easier for bugs to fly under the radar in a bigger place. Aaah, it's all protein, get it down you:)
In the past, scream like a girl!
Now, take an extra swig of beer, and bon apetit!
I kill the cook, burn the restaurant to the ground, and make out with the waitress on the smoking ruins.
Createach:
i should have thought about that as answer and posted it.....well done
I usually do the moonwalk,followed by the thriller dance
I found a bug of some kind in my fried rice once. They got me another plate...hopefully.
TedDBayer:
they sell bugs on sticks as a snack, maybe it was an ingredient not an accident.
I've found hair in my food more than once, the first time that happened, I completely lost my appetite. The owner looked at me weirdly when I abruptly said "mai dan" cuz half of my plate was still full. I swore never to go back to that place. The worst part, after I told one of my friends back home, she asked what the hair looked like and I said it was short... And she said: " You know which (human) body parts have short hair right..." And I hated her guts for a whole week.
After a few weeks one friend said he wanted to eat and that particular restaurant was the only one still open, so we went again. This time, he found a hair in his food. 
After a few more times (4 or 5) of finding hair in my food, I guess I don't freak out soo much. Well, I don't lose my appetite anymore by the sight of a hair. I just ask for a new plate and that's that. I mean, if I kept saying I'm never coming back to those restaurants, I'm gonna run out of places to eat eventually.
When I find a bug in my food I am never sure if it is an accident or part of the dish itself.
chenhan:
Of course it is dish,i never waste even one.Hmm,delicious!Could i have more?
Just pull the hair out. There are much worse things in life! Yes, Chenhan.
Never noticed any hair, bones were hard for me to eat, while some Chinese would eat chicken feet bones and swallow watermelon seeds, whats a little hair. Not like I've never swallowed any hair unknowing.
I hold the hair up in the air and loudly say fuwuyaun. When they come over I place the hair in their hand and then point to the dish.
Hair in food is unacceptable...jesus people...we weren't raised to think it's part of the meal. Send it back.
It sucks, but it is going to happen from time to time. In China and around the world.
I watched a musical production in London in the mid 70's. It was entitled 'Hair'. It was an excellent production. I still remember it to this day..
The Dawning of The Age of Aquarius...
I don't like hair in my mouth much though. Well, hygiene standards in E/SE Asia are a bit odd. Best not to reflect upon it too much...
