This piece shows very clearly that, in fact, most of Chinese consumers don't care about food security that much. If they have to choose between price or food security, they choose price. It reflect perfectly the 'culture' they are now exporting: 'cheap' above quality.

Thanks for this, a nice little film. Life flavour.

where is Su Fei ?

Su Fei is at Sexy Beijing TV

I like the style of this film, it's about really ordinary people but it treats them sensitively, and gives a good Beijing flavor.

Well, when I bought hot dogs at the Time Square in NYC, I was excited and didn't care about food safety. Same feeling is probably true for those who bought food at Wang Fu Jing in Beijing. Now if you ask me in front of a camera how I would score the cleanness of those hot dogs I swallowed, I would give 2 out of 5 maybe. Now it starts to make me feel bad... BTW, from the video, it seems the food court in WFJ is at least organized, not like those random carts in dirty Broadway. Anyway, don't ask for too much, and thanks for the well made film.

sure, you train the camera on them vendors and they're going to say that their product is unclean and unsanitary?

and what about those pensioners? of course they'll rationalize to themselves that it's all the same as they've got no other sources of income.

and at wangfujing? where nearly all foreign tourists make pit stops and it's a question of face? do they really dare to have unsanitary food?

while it's true that most chinese rarely pay attention to some of the street foods, they're pretty concerned about food safety just like everbody else. this videocamera in their face approach is not the way to find out though.

"This piece shows very clearly that, in fact, most of Chinese consumers don't care about food security that much. If they have to choose between price or food security, they choose price. It reflect perfectly the 'culture' they are now exporting: 'cheap' above quality. It reflect perfectly the 'culture' they are now exporting: 'cheap' above quality. "

------------------

If "they" have to choose between price or food security, "they" choose price

Who are they, how could you know they are going to choose price?!

Piece of Sh*t, "reflect perfectly the 'culture', could you say all the food service in your city have no safty problem? COULD YOU?!

Do not try to conclude others by that simple!

I found this a very nice little video-but as an investigative film, this perhaps doesn't go very deep. One thing I thought the film captured nicely is that Beijinger's really do think you can clean any vegetable by soaking it long enough.

I am reminded of my hometay parent, manager of a campus cafeteria, warning me never to eat at the cheap noodle shops because they use the neck-fat of the pork (full of toxins) and pre-used oil that other restaurants have thrown out. He was expounding on the cancer-causing effects of pesticides-while smoking a cigarette, mind you.

sometimes if you used to the flavor,you just cant resist the smell and then you grab the food and eat...

after that,you go to the bathroom,lol.

there have a word in the video: "I don't think it is clean, but what ever, I eat and I don't get sick". Most people have this thought, anyway, you will never make sure the thing you eat is clean and safe. I think you if want totally safe and clean, the only way is eat at home, do by yourself, only eat vegetable. even in air has virus.

nice camera work and style. nice editing and music in the supermarket. audio dissolves? story?

i am going to make a video about spitting on the sidewalk.

oh, a good window for us to know what's the foreingers' interest about morden china.
but i wonder what's the differences between danwei.org and sexybeing.tv?

Shuwen: Danwei.org and Sexybeijing.tv are now separate organizations with lots of cooperation.

北京的安全与卫生？你们拍的东西都挺奇怪的，是用外国人的角度来看中国呢，还是用老外的眼光看北京事务？北京这么落后？你们是想讲中国人没有卫生意识，是吧，直接一点嘛，绕这个弯子让人觉得存心不良。
你们翻译的文字经常断章取义，很多采访的人都只是在谈一种传统，旧去的东西。如果说非中国的“文明人”在被侵略的时候一定是吃饭之前先洗手的，这点我相信，可如果饭都没有吃，你吃手吗？
喝了点洋墨水的中国人挺逗的，总是批评着国家的不是，政府的无能，非如此不能表现其新时代的意识，可也不想想谁送你们去喝的洋墨水？如果中国落后，八国联军的哥们是不是贡献了很多的力量呢？抬摄像机的朋友是八国联军“朋友”的后裔吗？如果是，中国人得谢谢你！
中国挺好的，稳步发展，虽然相对其他国家而言，仍然是落后和不完善，但我们会努力，请不要故意用阴暗的东西来影射中国美好的全部。

这种话都能说出来，真不要脸到极致了。稳步发展？权贵们是在稳步发展，越来越有钱，社会分化越来越大。

独裁政治体制不解决，根本就不要说什么发展的事情。

支持这种客观的报道。

聪明人总会自己作出客观的评价。