Employee at famous egg yolk pastry store reveals unsanitary kitchen conditions
Employee at famous egg yolk pastry store reveals unsanitary kitchen conditions
2025-09-29
Alas, fame isn’t always a hallmark of quality. An employee at a well-known pastry store in Taichung’s North District recently called out the insanitary conditions in their kitchen, online. They posted several photos to back up the claims. After the shock news went viral, the pastry shop owner denied all accusations and insisted that the whistleblower fabricated the claims out of bitterness with the terms of employment. It turned out that the claims were not unfounded, upon an inspection by city authorities.
It’s almost Mid-Autumn Festival. A long line is a common sight at this famed egg yolk pastry shop in Taichung’s North District. But an employee has come out to urge shoppers against their products, saying that the store’s facilities are unsanitary.
Whistleblower (voice altered)
Works at pastry shop
They use the type of plywood sheet used as building material. The dough touches the plywood directly, and we only clean the plywood board every half a year or so. Usually we just scrape off excess oil from the plywood, and even then the oil being scraped off has a sort of rancid smell to it.
The whistleblower also reveals that there’s mold inside the kitchen, and that ingredients are placed in empty, rusted cans and dirty plywood sheets.
Whistleblower (voice altered)
Works at pastry shop
We did buy new wooden sheets for Mid-Autumn Festival. But as you can see in the pictures, there are still traces of paint on them.
Mr. Huang
Pastry shop owner
We leave the cans on the countertop once they’re emptied, because we only ask the recyclers to come in and remove them after there’s a certain volume. So it’s inevitable that some of them may begin to rust. As for the walls where we hang utensils, because we’re always using the kitchen, so it’s inevitable that there are ingredient splatters on the walls. But we clean the area every day, and if you take pictures before cleaning and claim that the marks are mold, that’s just untrue.
The pastry shop owner denies the accusations. He added that even the employee in question has placed an order for the pastries. He says that the employee in question could have been attempting to seek revenge due to their dissatisfaction with the terms of employment.
Mr. Huang
Pastry shop owner
We’re now nearing holiday season. We hope that the person in question would sort out the issue with those involved, and refrain from doing harm to our company out of personal issues.
The Taichung Food and Drug Safety Office has since conducted an inspection and discovered that the pastry shop did not follow best practices for sanitation in the food industry. It has issued the shop with a warning that they could be fined if improvements weren’t made on a second inspection.
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環境不衛生有食安疑慮? 台中知名餅店駁斥"遭員工報復"
2025-09-29
台中北區一家知名餅店，被譽為蛋黃酥的家，卻被員工踢爆，內部環境發霉，還用生鏽的空罐頭，不潔的木板，盛裝食材，不過這些指控，一一遭到業者駁斥，懷疑可能是勞資糾紛，對方才會選在中秋檔期來爆料。
中秋節就要到了，買餅的人潮從店內排到店外，台中北區這家餅店，被譽為蛋黃酥的家，不過友員工上網爆料，指控店家內部環境髒亂，製作的月餅恐有食安疑慮。
[[投訴人(變音處理)]]
“他們都是叫那種，建材行使用的木材合板來操作，直接把(餅)皮放在板子上做使用，然後木板其實我們只有，可能半年清潔一次，然後很常就只是把，油從那個板子刮下來，有時候刮下來的油，都可能帶有一些，比較特殊的發酵臭味”
員工還指控，內部環境發霉，而且還用生鏽的空罐頭，不潔的木板放置食材。
[[投訴人(變音處理)]]
“中秋有進新的一批那個木板，如大家照片看到，就是上面還有可能有一些，有帶漆的顏色這樣”
[[糕餅業者 黃先生]]
“鐵罐使用完畢之後你放在外面，因為我們到一個量，才會請回收的來收走，所以勢必有時候可能，放一段時間之後它會有生鏽的痕跡，我們放器具的牆面，因為每天如果在使用，勢必一定會有一些，食物原物料東西的噴濺，基本上都是每天做清潔，如果是在這種過程中拍，這是霉斑的話，其實是不是符合事實的事情”
業者駁斥員工的指控，甚至公布員工自己也有下訂單買餅，懷疑可能是勞資糾紛遭員工報復。
[[糕餅業者 黃先生]]
“在大家需要過節的這個時間點，那我們就是說，盡量的跟他們做協調，私人的問題，不要再影響到我們的公司”
食安處接獲民眾陳情後，已經派員前往稽查，查獲業者不符食品良好衛生規範準則，責令業者限期改善，若複查還是不合格就會開罰。
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