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This is actually very common in China. The cutlery comes all wrapped in plastic on every table, it's washed in a centralized location
by ackbar03 7y ago
This is actually very common in China. The cutlery comes all wrapped in plastic on every table, it's washed in a centralized location
- MegaButts 7y agoInteresting. I'm always surprised by just how little I know about China.
- nneonneo 7y ago...and then my relatives open them up and insist on rinsing each piece with boiling water anyway (conveniently always provided as part of the tea service). Also, in recent years, many restaurants have started to charge for the wrapped plastic cutlery + dishes, usually 1 RMB for cutlery and 2-5 RMB for the dish set (you don't get to keep them - it's basically just the fee for the cleaning + packaging). Perhaps they're trying to encourage people to bring their own, which is a bit of a weird (but probably environmentally friendly) idea.
- retSava 7y agoSounds like an environmental nightmare. It may be a drip in an ocean, but it's so completely unnecessary. Or am I missing something, apart from the human psyche ("it feels more fresh that way!")?
- ackbar03 7y agoNo your probably right, probably is pretty wasteful