I once got a Chinese dinner from my local that literally contained nuts and bolts.
Soon found another Chinese.
They are really none to clean or ready to get with American quality control.
They were concerned with your daily iron intake?
I have as a waste basket, a cardboard drum that says
“Daily Flavor Monosodium Glutamate 99.9% pure.100 lbs.”
I picked it up from the back of a Chinese resturant
that assured me they didn’t use MSG...
I did NOT ask about the chicken.
I’ve seen pictures of some of their mainstream manufactured foods, worms in soda, sawdust in bread. Their whole food industry would have to be bulldozed and rebuilt to hygienic standards.
That had to be a shock! This is why I cook so much - I know I’m clean and the ingredients are fresh.
After exchanging pleasantries with the lady proprietor, who happened to be working the window, he mentioned that he was getting a fast dinner after a day of duck hunting...
One thing led to another and he drove away with a Schezchuan (SP? Not Cantonese, the other one) dinner gratis... except for the two ventilated, and legally tagged, ducks he left behind with his new friend.
Not unappetizing like nuts and bolts, one would suppose, but still... I've always wondered if the county health inspector had a special Peking duck after that.