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Q: Hygiene in China?
What's the general take on hygiene? For restaurant, it seems kinda low (when the Chinese family in my small town opened their restaurant, they had to adapt quite quickly!) but on a personal level, how is it? Sometimes, after I go to the bathroom after eating a nice bucket of KFC drumsticks, I wash my hands but my Chinese girlfriend would be obsessed with germs. She told me it was not unusual. There's quite a paradox, i find.
Is it something like "we haz no hygiene, until it gets personal"?
Everything in China is dirty. Wash, wash and wash again and again.
Pretty much what Martin said...
In cities like Beijing, coming back to your apartment after a day of having the window open will reveal a thin layer of dust on the table. Even when nothing moves, things get dirty...
People don't wash their hands, street vendors use the same oil over and over again when cooking, people spit and dump stuff in the street...but then...whenever they're at home, you have to wash your feet five times and clean your hands after touching anything.
There's a level of hypocrisy there that's barely hidden. Why don't people just take the same amount of care when they're outside?
