On this video, A from the USA who spent time in Taiwan before moving Japan opens a Taco place in Japan. The English comments have a lot of posting of it not being clean, Japanese comments more about the food and mostly good? So I have been in Taiwan too long and it looks ok to me or coming from Southern Japan just used to it and Ex Pats want very clean? (I wonder the guy used some Taiwan standards in setting it up?)
I can’t imagine Japanese would mind the gloveless hands. Looks like he needs a proper towel instead of an apron for wiping his hands.
Looks like no disposable gloves and hands picking up cheese to sprinkle on finished food so it’s not my definition of clean. If I see that in Taiwan I also avoid the restaurant unless they cook it after like dumplings.
I visited North American recently and all the taco food trucks I saw used disposable gloves.
I was comparing to sushi, however I stopped eating sushi a long time ago, when bare hand were used, are gloves for sushi chefs the norm now?
Sushi is different since a sushi chef doesn’t handle money and has a process for keeping things clean. If they are handling money then I prefer they wear disposable gloves.
Can confirm. Tacos and sushi are indeed not the same.
Sloppy tacos–yum
Yes kitchen needs to be cleaner, I would still eat there though if the food was good , see worse in Taiwan.
one is less good
Sacotushi could be pretty good. Sushi in a Taco.
when I make “sushi” at home that’s pretty much how I do it. I don’t usually roll it and the seaweed is more like a tortilla in use.
but I wouldn’t want a raw fish taco… or would I? ceviche taco sounds not bad.
I viewed the video with the wife, she said it was pretty filthy as well , I mean it’s rough job there. Also he’s missing salsa and guacamole. It’s hard running it as one person he should hire help in.
This is true; many do not use gloves. For me it’s better to wash hands than to keep using the same gloves.
The fryer could be cleaner, at least I hope it’s cleaner than it looks from the outside.
The wall behind the cooking burners is also quite covered in grease from several days ago.
Wow! Taco… it has been a long time
I like freshly picked salsa
Where the juices run constantly down your chin.
Oh!! The gentle licking of the guacamole
It brings me back to simpler times, Taco.
“I was drunk at the time!”
Do you remember, Taco?
I finally had to stop going to an outdoor street vendor I liked because I kept seeing rats scurry under his cart. I figured one time is excusable since it is outside… but I started to see the little f***ers almost nightly. Clearly he wasn’t “addressing the problem.”
I mean, maybe just don’t make the kitchen area visible? I don’t recall any Mexican places in the US that has a open kitchen. That environment looks so-so in Taiwan, like people will tolerate it if it’s really good, and has been there a long time, or it just has to be really cheap. In Japan, all open kitchen places, like most Ramen places, look much more clean.
You can watch other videos on that channel they are all cleaner than this dude’s restaurant.
If you include taquerias it’s not uncommon.
damn, now I want sushi and tacos…
When someone sees a rat in a restaurant or eatery in the US, it makes the social media rounds or even the local news. Here it’s “Tuesday.” I know other countries like India still put Taiwan to shame when it comes to unhygienic eateries, but we shouldn’t even be in the conversation. The infrastructure here is on average way more developed than those other places, but people just don’t care or basic hygiene standards aren’t enforced enough.