I have not been patronising any pasar malam (night market) for a long-long time. I remembered, when I was younger, when there are not much of other forms of entertainment, I usually go jam the pasar malam... sometimes bugging my dad to travel as far as 15 minutes drive to the pasar malam location and spending like dono how long to locate a parking lot.... those crazy days..
And to tell you, there's always this urge to buy the food sold at these pasar malam as they always looked so yummy and tempting. However, I always have this fear now... wondering what sort of ingredients they used, do they wash them before preparing, how long have they kept the food and so on....
Then I read this news today... How can I ever trust food sold in these pasar malam again when case like this is happening?
Woman dies after eating burger
GEORGE TOWN: A 25-year-old Vietnamese factory worker died of food poisoning after eating a burger which was bought from a pasar malam trader.
Pham Thi Thcp was rushed to the Penang Hospital early yesterday morning when she started complaining of severe stomach ache after eating the burger.However, her condition worsened and she started vomiting blood as she was being rushed to the hospital. She died about 4.15am before she could be taken to the emergency ward.It is learnt that Pham Thi had gone to a night market in Batu Maung with her boyfriend, also a Vietnamese, on Tuesday night.
Her hostel mates said Pham Thi ate the burger before going to bed.Shortly afterwards, she started moaning in pain and cried out for a glass of water.Her hostel mates immediately alerted their supervisor, who called an ambulance when her condition worsened.
Meanwhile, Penang Hospital pathologist Datuk Dr Bhupinder Singh said a post-mortem showed Pham Thi had died from food poisoning.Samples from the deceased’s stomach had been sent for analysis to determine what caused the poisoning, he added.
Dr Bhupinder said the Balik Pulau Health Department had been alerted about the incident to enable them to take action and check on the food being sold at the night market.Southwest deputy police chief DSP Lai Fah Hin said police would treat the case as sudden death pending further investigation.
So, do you think you still wanna buy those 'yummy and tempting' looking food from the
pasar malam now?