In the current hot weather, a wide range of beverage is sold well, so pavement beverage stalls have sprung up like mushroom. Ignorance of healthcare plus poor management of functional agencies, many people bring trouble upon themselves from the non-origin beverage.

 

Many people slake their thirst at a pavement beverage stall.

When the ringing stops, like a flock of birds released from a cage, the schoolchildren of a high school in Thuan An district run from class to buy beverage from mobile pavement beverage stalls in front of their school gate with no thought of food hygiene and safety.

In the hot days, any street is home to mobile pavement beverage stalls with numerous drinks such as coconut juice, sugar cane juice, centella juice and so on with the price at only VND2,000-3,000 per glass. Despite of dust, numerous people gather the pavement beverage stalls to slake their thirst.

At a pavement sugar cane selling stall near Song Than IP, dust along with flies stick leftover sugar cane juice glasses. The stall’s female owner about 40 years of age, said she sells several hundreds of sugar cane juice glasses per day for drivers.

In the front of school gates, pavement beverage stalls lure many schoolchildren. Most street beverage stalls have nothing with which to protect their food from dust and flies. They use un-gloved hands to pick up food, clean up dirt and handle money.

At industrial parks, to cater for clients rapidly, the pavement beverage stalls’ owners mix beverage in advance. Consequently, many people were got to hospital with stomach-ache and diarrhea.

At the pavement beverage stalls, glasses are washed perfunctorily, easily spreading diseases to customers. It’s time for customers to boycott the pavement beverage stalls.

Reported by H.Ngoc – Translated by A.C