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A Chinese takeaway was ordered to shut down after two live mice were found in a box of noodles.
Environmental health inspectors found the rodents in a gnawed box of dried noodles in the store room of the Dragon Palace Chinese Takeaway on London Road in Westcliff, Southend, Essex.
Heh, I went to a fish and chips place in Essex a month or so ago run by Chinese people and there was a Environmental Health guy in there, so all the workers were doing their best to pretend they couldn't understand a word of English and had no idea who he was or what he wanted. It was pretty funny watching them just walk away while he was asking to inspect the kitchen and have these panicked conversations in Chinese amongst themselves. I was the only actual customer in there and it still took them about 20 minutes to get my order right I'd love to know what kind of visa they had to get into the country.
I've always found Chinese people to be personally very clean. The trouble is that the restaurants are businesses and the owners business people - they pay and provide as little as possible and charge as much as they can get away with, unsurprisingly, given the attitude of some of their customers. I find Indian restaurants much more sympathetic, I must say, though I can still order in Chinese if I've a couple of beers down me!
One word of cautionary advice. Beware any Takeaway that reveals to its customers nothing but a tiny square hatch and a mini television on the wall to distract from the clattering pans and the excrutiating wails of what can only be described as the equivalent sound to that of a stampeding elepant being slowly disembowelled and polluting the aural ambience for a 3 mile radius. Never a good sign.
I used to eat at such a place from time to time, usually when not too fussed about gourmet cuisine, seven sheets to the wind and lured by the enticing waft of anything resembling food and usually by the fact that it was only two doors away from my favoured local pub of the time.
It was actually on my way out of said pub after a lock in, down a dark, dank and grimy alleyway that I suddenly became aware of how much the back of the aforementioned establishment resembled a Sweeney Todd barber shop shrine that had been redecorated by a tsunami of rotting garbage and was laden with discarded rodent and lice riddled containers.
Made me wonder where the prawn balls could have come from. Smothered in enough sweet and sour sauce, could've been from just about anywhere I suppose. All I know is this, ominous chopping block and infestation of a very large local rodent population in the immediate vicinity.
You don't need to be Einstein to do the equation.
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. They are cheap for a reason 
I'd love to know what kind of visa they had to get into the country.
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. Smothered in enough sweet and sour sauce, could've been from just about anywhere I suppose. All I know is this, ominous chopping block and infestation of a very large local rodent population in the immediate vicinity
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