Hong Kong Garden Seafood and Dim Sum Cafe leads long list on Dirty Dining
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 24 ก.ค. 2024
- This week we're dishing up a double helping of Dirty Dining including nine food trucks, three cockroach infestations, two closures in a mall food court and one doozy of a dirty restaurant.
I used to love to eat out and try small places but since living to Vegas I discovered this channel and I stay away from eating out especially from anywhere on rainbow road or spring mountain. Several places I tried were on her list.
Don’t write off every non big name restaurant. I’ve lived here for decades and can attest there are many, many of perfectly safe options.
How do they know they didn’t plant that due to jealousy and some conflict with covid. McDonald’s, Burger King, Taco Bell’s and many others have roaches all the time.
@@20891 …and you’re ok with that?
This is the reason i RARELY eat out anymore...
Especially chinese restaurant's
Ikr
@@RedPillin and Mexicans resturants
Oh my goodness not only do I rarely eat out but I'm also learning how to cook my favorite dishes.
I'm so grateful that they are doing their job and shutting these places down.
in regards to Dim Sum Cafe: "Nobody wants to work." WRONG! People want to work, just not for this nasty restaurant. People also don't want to be paid less than what they deserve for the work they do. If the person who supposedly asked for a raise, goes above and beyond for her when she asks of them, or takes on a leadership role in her absences, per her request, which is absolutely typical in an asian restaurant (I know because i've worked in MANY different asian restaurants) then they should be paid according to their duties, if she's not willing to pay more, she shouldn't ask more of her employees than their job titles.
A lot of Chinese/Asian Restaurant employees get paid under the table and don't even pay tax.
@China Boss So What? Why the hell they moved to this country if they don't want to pay tax.
@China Boss You must be one of them. Shame on you.
Unfortunately have to do with both the employee and the employer the employer does not want to pay their taxes for hiring employees
That lady is just a xxxxh, with no common sense, her restaurant deserves to be shut down, for good.
57 demerits literally translates to you've been serving dirt
i've worked in many restaurants as an extra side gig and to stay active and they have all been very nasty. There isn't enough staffing to keep the kitchen spotless. I urge people to buy groceries and eat at home.
Your still not safe neither. I have been a butcher, from slaughterhouses to retail jobs. And you always have that dirty worker unfortunately. Glad I cut my meats to take to my family. And not from that jackass that picks it off the floor after they drop it and put it on the trey
@@bryan2316 DO YOU know how dirty your chicken and cows are? Good thing iam a farmer I know what iam feeding my family 👪
@@bryan2316 beat that
Same here
It's everyone's fault but the owner and that man who thinks people won't believe he is lying. They blame the employee who turned them in as if having a code of ethics is a bad thing. THAT employee most likely saved someone a trip to the hospital or cemetery. They are even lying on the roaches.
This owner should not be allow to owned any restaurant because she doesn't care about the safety of the customer and the food.
She won't take any of the responsibility, either.
I would say a good rule of thumb is to look at the condition of the bathroom and go around the back of the restaurant near the dumpster and it gives you a general snapshot of the overall cleanliness of the restaurant.
Very true! I do that on a regular.
The late Anthony Bourdain said the same, "because it's easier to keep the bathroom clean".👍
You are absolutely right . I look out for the very same things.
Please keep up the reporting - this information is very useful to those of us who travel to Las Vegas.
I'm no longer hungry this morning. Glad I've never eaten there.
how abt soup!
That didn’t even get to the Cat part.
Cook at home
Man, that dude had an excuse for everything
Agree he was full of 💩
Brave health inspectors. Keep up the great work. This was my go to dim-sum restaurant. No more. Especially after learning that the owner has other restaurants with cleanliness and health issues. It appears many of the issues -- grease buildup, improper storing of food, incorrect temperature, etc. is systemic and not a lapse. I hope other restaurants learn that there are many options in LV and their trust needs to be earned and maintained.
I can't stop watching Dirty Dining. Help!!!
Why aren't these restaurants close. This is real bad for our health.
Ikr
Money from fines
Imagine getting a $50 gift card to this joint for your high school graduation party.
Wang....has no business getting a renewed food license! Let's be real!
it is so greasy even cockroaches are oiled to death....
No excuse for this filth. Even with a skeleton crew, you take a day and deep clean the damned kitchen. What it looks like is nobody, including management, gave two sh*ts about that kitchen or it's customers.
restaurants would go out of business if they had to deep clean more than twice per week. Even before the pandemic, staffing was a big problem and they already have tight margins.
Agree man said himself business in the past has been slow. Old manager use to tell us “if you have time to lean, you have time to clean”
They don’t cate
@@dachicagoan8185 Nonsense. I have worked in restaurants most of my adult life. You could even do mini-deep cleans daily, knocking out one regular maintenance area a day. Hoods daily. Under flattop, behind fryers, pull out grills, etc....one item a day. This place doesnt look look they even swept and mopped throughout the day...hell, maybe not at all each day.
Easier said then done. Obviously they were way beyond what could be a slight variation from health standards. Having working a restaurant for nearly a decade its not easy to entice underpaid often underappreciated staff to do extra work for the company. On top of dirty customers as well as staff you are also dealing with many other issues like constant employee call outs, corporate changing the rules every other month, being threatened with your job, complaints from entitled people. Restaurant work isn't easy and why most people think it requires no skills is beyond me. Management (the role I did) especially takes the grunt force of operation and still while doing multiple tasks are underpaid. Americans want cheap fast food but don't mind the wage slavery they support by visiting those restaurants.
The future focus should be to take responsibility for your issues and not throw the blame on employee's!!
DISGUSTING
I've been here. And I always go to Dim Sum in Vegas every trip I go like a tradition for me. This place I gave it a try and trust me the basic dim sum dishes tasted bad. I found a new spot and really good and it's called Yum Cha. Alot cleaner and more selection and better tasting.
Hate to tell you man, Yum Cha got caught also for dirty dinning, mouse in the kitchen🙄
I already stopped retail shopping. Next on my list.....stop eating out all together. I'm saving my money until this plandemic is over. These nasty places don't care about anything but the money. They started a business and they don't even take pride in their work and it's pretty obvious they don't appreciate or respect their customers. I wonder if they got ppp or eidl help. Because businesses like mine that actually care got nothing.
Rat traps, ALL OF THEM.
As far as grease it gets on everything but you have to know as a restaurant how to do this yourself. You can’t simply blame employees but need to roll up sleeves and do the work. My family owned a restaurant growing up and I have cleaned those hoods more times than I could count. You have to clean the grease from floors nightly. You have to put all the equipment out regularly and deep clean everything. When you don’t have staffing you need to do it yourself. Fryers same thing you use the right cleaner and run that hot and it takes a tons of scrubbing. Restaurant work is and always was hard work. The woman sounds lazy and wants to shift blame to her employees but the labor shortage is an issue because it is next to i possible to find hard working employees who are willing to do all they need to do. They aren’t worried about being fired since someone else has a shortage. Still, if staying in business need to roll up sleeves and just do it. The government is still to blame for this mess by panicking everyone out of business. What is insane is unless it is pristine they shouldn’t get an A. The only Chinese restaurant I really cared to go to in Vegas was Bund Shanghai which seems to be a casualty of Covid - which the food there was great. You need to have a good level of trust with Chinese restaurants. I am allergic to msg and seafood so I need to be confident they won’t cross contaminate.
THANK YOU guys. Do it like Hawaii. Constantly inspection. This should be highly highly recommended.
That’s why I don’t eat at Asian small fast food restaurants. Witnessed too much nastiness. That’s disgusting. She should not be able to open.
I’ll keep eating at home
You’ll be missing out on sushi, pho and bbq then. Your loss.
@@Oceanrocks121You can do everyone of these dishes at home at a fraction of the cost and with proper hygiene.
This is why I cook all my meals
Sound like the inspector siding with owner
Lol at the owner saying: “dis sum shit”
Most chinese restaurants r bad. They r too afraid to throw expired food away! Other restaurants employees don't know how to wash their hands and wear gloves!
Where i work, we have food prep people don't wash their hands. I told the store mgr. She replied "it's ok, as long as they wear gloves". Disgusting. And she ain't much of a store mgr, in fact she needs to be replaced.
@@naomimuranaka9409 wow that is ridiculous.
No wonder no one comes back for Lunch at my house!
Hehehehahahahaha
i ate there when i was vacationing in vegas last year. the dim sum was very good. and they had one of the best white sugar cakes i've had in ages. i didn't know of this issue before going but any restaurant can have health code violations.
I used to work in the food industry and the way inspections are done are pretty flawed, the inspectors always give the establishment a heads up on when they will be showing up and around what time, that gives the business enough time to clean up and prepare for what the inspectors will be looking for, once they leave it's business as usual dirty and unsanitary, they need to do surprise inspections more regularly.
Who the hell did you work for. I get his with QA inspections random as hell. No notice what so ever. I disagree with your statement as I know this to be true for other establishments in my city (philadelphia)
This story makes me hungry!
The doggy in the picture probably gets better food than the customers at that restaurant.
We know damn well they were reusing the leftover food.
I believe it. 💯
It’s not just Asian restaurants folks.it’s the whole industry. It takes a lot of long hours, patience, diligence & commitment, communications, empowerment, vigilance, awareness and investment to run a “well-oiled” restaurant now. Recent labor shortage as well as apathy isnt helping. Eating out has always been a risk.
Asian restaurant are NOTORIOUS for health code violations. This report is a prime example of what I mean.
@@willforviews5023 Mostly just Chinese.
I have eaten there before. The food was good and the seating area was clean when i was there. I never knew the behind the scenes layout was dirty. Never again i will eat there.
I saw some restaurants doing that like they put the left over rice from the customers back in the rice cooker. I hope they will investigate at Valley Blvd Alhambra. I was shocked and want to throw up. I never ever eat out again in that kind of restaurants.
Re-serving leftover 😋 👌 😂😂😂
This is why I don’t do Chinese food, i will be making my own
agreed
Problem is that most restaurant workers have not undergone proper training in prepping, cooking, cleaning, maintaining hygienic conditions.
Darcy Spears sure is one tough cookie!
OMG! Recycling the rice?! I believe it! That’s a good tactic, though, blame it on the help…pass the buck, baby!
Imagine if this restaurant was featured in kitchen nightmares…..
I could never trust anyone with my food.
Bad refrigeration scares me the most.
What that dude graduate from Miami? 🙌
YUCKO!!! I gave such rave reviews on Yelp for Hong Kong Garden & Seafood... I don’t think I’ll be back. Hopefully this owner will get the message that this type of food prep and handling doesn’t cut it here in the U.S. 🥴🤢🤮
Is it really that hard to clean your kitchen everyday?
those restaurant owners just clean once, then they are full of excuses after. who ever is clean is clean no matter what with little or no employees. is a matter of ethics and cleanness these ppl seems to lack.
How do I know that place isn't Hong Kong Garbage Seafood?
This news report would have been much shorter, like 60 seconds, if they just reported on what the restaurants passed inspection on, instead of describing a boatload of violations. I agree it's improbable that the restaurant served food left on the plates of previous customers. I worked in fast food a long time ago, and some things weren't the best, but it wasn't even a thought, or even a joke, that lets serve uneaten food scraped off previous customers plates again, to save money. Doesn't happen.
I don't know. I think I'd still eat there unless I found a finger in my food or something.
While she's not totally blameless, of course, I agree that a lot of it is because of employees. Maybe they don't know what to do or are just lazy, but I've worked on fast food and have seen it all. If they don't have someone over their shoulder telling them exactly what to do and when to do it, it turns into this mess. Everyone in this situation is careless.
The cleanest way to go is to eat at home even though you've scratched your ass of course you'll wash your hands well because you'll eat it.
Right
If you go to an Asian restaurant expecting no bugs or food that isn't suspect, then that's on YOU
“Her commitment was there” FOH! Shut that place down smh 😫
Most restaurant can't follow the cleanliness procedures, that's why when you eat in a restaurant anywhere expect the unexpected.
What city
Scraping the rice is common! I’ve seen it in at a Ch!na bistro, got $1 in change, when I asked for yellow rice instead, she wanted the $1 too even though menu said no charge, just wow!
I believe it.
Sounds like 12 days of restaurants
I love Asian food so I eat it with a nice glass of Alka-Seltzer.
Think I went to one of this restaurant location didn’t like how I saw they were preparing the food
DIRTY DONNYYYYYY!!!!!!!
More favor! Yummy!
What about san francisco restaurants?
San Francisco restaurants are too far from Las Vegas for them to cover.
I know somebody who is working there and they work from 7.00 am to 7.00 pm 7days a week the people that work in the kitchen is mostly elderly people who cannot wort other places
Most restaurants in strip malls with several restaurant side by side have roach and rat problems. It only needs one bad apple in the row and everyone else has the same pest problems.
Why do people want to work when they get more free money from the gov ?
I bet most chinese restaurants don't follow any hygiene. At the same time, I do think people who eat in these restuarants have better immunity against corona. LOL
They don’t
Is this where Covid started?
Please no not a double helping of dirty dining please no oh 😂😂😂😂😂
I don't expect anything less from Chinese restaurants
This is the reason why I don't eat out
Lmao. Why is it always Chinese places? Here in Hawaii a chinese place was guilty of serving cat meat in their dim sum. Smh
In some cases, they hire staff that would typically not be hired elsewhere due to language barrier. Staff are then underpaid and overworked which is a "recipe" for sub par services.
I used to imagine my classmate's mom would give my classmate kitty-cat stew.
MrJuvefrank lmao
why was that OG throwing Gangsigns?
Asian restaurants are regular customers at Dirty Dining.
It wouldn’t surprise me if places did that got to save that money
Multi generation infestation? 😱
Don't believe these people who are defending the accusations of the employees. Employees SPEAK THE TRUTH!!!! I worked in a pizza restaurant as a teen. There was Nobody making certain hands were washed, food was clean...etc. Cleanliness is not necessarily a priority
Blaming the heat and employees but cannot justify the grease coming down from the ceiling? I’ve been to this restaurant a few times and yes, the floor is always “sticky” and the carpet needed replacing. Not enough ventilation inside and not enough staff to serve the customers. Not coming back to hongkong garden again.
Scrapping old rice back in the pot
whoooaaahaaa !!
I'll take my chances at Panda Express instead 🐼
Yum yum
Gordon Ramsay:
24 hrs to hell and back can't help, Close it permanently~~~
this was the one restaurant Gordon Ramsey couldn’t turn around
The health department have not gone there for years looks like
I believe the employer who said they are reserving rice
i just ordered from then 2 days ago :((
Because this is a Failure of a business model. You can’t attract people to stay if you’re paying them nine dollars an hour
i prefer the ones on this list, they taste better.
Darcy Spears must have a very limited list of places she goes out to eat .
Darci Spears gives us the dirt on the roaches and rats. She’s the next Marvin Zindler.
If you want authentic Chinese food, you will get the authentic Chinese practices.
Does the guy Molson have an answer for a walk-in box that didn't work...meaning it didn't just not work for a day..I'm thinking my man isn't a food safety consultant at all.
Several citations and dim sum.
Who is stealing grease?
They do that routinely.