Refusing to Serve Tap Water

[Lammarite]

Evidently us gweilo's are made of stronger stuff- no 'locals' go there because of all the court cases pending from all the cases of food poisoning which only ellaella has worked out comes from the fact that the Hard Rock doesn't care and uses tap water.

[jgl]

hi guys!

i'm afraid u reli can't drink water directly from the tap in HK!!
we the locals always boil the water first...n we'll let it cool down naturally n never put ice in it to facilitate the process...
or of course we put the hot boiling water in a thermo if we want it otherwise....

Just because people follow a superstition doesn't make that superstition true. Perhaps tap water was unsafe decades ago, and there was an actual basis for boiled water then.

If it were still the case, I'd be sick all the time as I've drank tap water in HK for a total of 5 years scattered through the 90s and this decade. Has it made me sick? Not once. Dodgy curries or bad Mediterranean food have though.

There are plenty of places that I've been to where I wouldn't drink untreated water (all of West Africa, much of China). Hong Kong isn't one of these places.

[tinybear]

If a customer asks for tap water, tap water it is. The customer is always right.

[Max]

y'all are starting to get paranoid!

Read and ye shall be enlightened....

http://www.wsd.gov.hk/en/html/others/faq_wq.htm#tape

[deleteduser]

hi guys!

i'm afraid u reli can't drink water directly from the tap in HK!!
we the locals always boil the water first...n we'll let it cool down naturally n never put ice in it to facilitate the process...
or of course we put the hot boiling water in a thermo if we want it otherwise....

but for making tea we always heat up another pot of boiling water instead of using the kept-warm water from the flask...

also...ice cubes r always made with the boiled water (the cooled down one of course...that's wut we call "cold boiled water" in cantonese...while the unboiled tap water is called "raw water")

more, we still use "raw water" for washing veggie bcoz in chinese cuisine we never eat uncooked vegetable (again it's called "raw vegetable")...so it doesnt matter which water we r using to wash it since all the veggie is cooked eventually...the washing process is just for putting away the mud n the worms....

but i know that some "gweilo" restaurants like Hard Rock Cafe they still serve tap water just simply bcoz they don't care...

Go away please