Protect the food, not hands

The proper way to handle food at stalls.

MALAYSIAN consumers are generally an indifferent lot. They are unfazed when the food they buy is prepared with bare hands that are then used to collect cash/money so long as the food is tasty and delicious. You see this happening in wet and night markets, food stalls, hawker centres and more recently in food trucks.

We are also not taken aback or feel disconcerted when food vendors in food courts use their gloved hands to handle both food and cash. The gloves are put on merely to please customers. After wearing the gloves, in addition to serving the food, they also use their gloved hand to use their handphone or wipe their nose.