Singapore Food Hygiene Course
Both Suki and I attended a full day Food Hygiene course from 9a.m to 7p.m., held at Jalan Besah CC last Wednesday.
It’s our pleasure to share with you that we both managed to pass the exam and to obtain a certification for us to officially operate in a licensed food shop or food stall.
The sad thing is that we may have to wait for another 1 to 2 months for WDA to process our certification before we can get our hands on the original copy. The happy thing is that our helpful trainer, Rodney Seah from Ascendo Consulting, is going to write us an official letter to give us the green light to start operating in a shop.
We learnt alot about handling food, cleaning, personal hygiene and the different causes of food poisoning as well as, the demerit point structure of NEA standards.
The objective of this course is to raise the standard of food hygiene in Singapore. This course is compulsory for all who wish to operate in the food business and to pass the exam is the minimum requirement.
No matter what, I think this is a great initiative by the government in enforcing strict control over the food that is being distributed to the public. At the end of the day, we realised that there are so many hygiene practices which we had overlooked and taken for granted. Hence, from that day onwards, we promised to commit ourselves to take extra precaution on ensuring that all desserts coming out from us is of the highest standard with quality.
You’ll be surprise on how dirty some chefs are when they handled food. Just yesterday, when I was queuing to buy lunch at this coffee shop located in Serangoon, the man at the next stall selling Minced Pork Noodle (apparently to be a famous shop there) was packing the “fa chai”, a black hairy-like herb, into a container. In the next second, he dropped the container and a few “fa chai” dropped out from it, and roll onto the floor. Without thinking, he threw the dropped “fa chai” back into the container, looked around to see if anyone saw him and continue packing.
I was totally disgusted and thank god, I didn’t buy my lunch from his stall.
There was also another incident related by the trainer himself during the course. But because I have to run my errands now, I’ll blog about it tomorrow and do stay tune to be horrified by how dirty the Chicken Rice owner is.
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