My Trip to WUHAN!!!: Look out street food! Here I come....

So today we went on a tour to a Bio Pharmaceutical Company. At first I thought it was a pharm cause the lecturers kept saying the short form which was BioPharm but I mistook it for Bio Farm and I thought it was a place where they grow hydroponics plants but it was actually Bio Pharmaceutical. Opps. When we arrived I thought we had to wait for the building to b completed before we had a tour as there was a really large building being built and we couldn’t see the actual building. So we could only go in groups so while the first group went in we waited outside as we were the last group. So before we went in we had to wear a lab coat, a weird cap and the girls all had to tie up our hair and put it inside the cap. We also had to where these disposable, protective shoe covers. The company tries their best to reduce the potential contaminants. The gear made us look like cafeteria workers therefore I refuse to post any pictures of us in it!! We were also not allowed to take pictures inside the manufacturing area. The product that they are manufacturing was a liquid that prevents excessive bleeding and provides platelets to help in the clotting of blood. The produce various forms of it like 100 ml liquid, 500 ml liquids and 5 ml powder form of which you add saline and inject into the IV (Intravenous) tube of a patient. For the liquid form, they first sterilize the bottles and fill it with the liquid in a super sterile environment. I realized that the bottles that they package it in were made of a really thin plastic material. To ensure that the water they use for the product is clean, they take tap water and run it through the process of deionization where the unwanted ions are removed from the water. This water is then boiled and condensed and the water droplets from the condensation are then collected. For the powder form product, the company boils the water product until it reaches a powder state. I have become braver and decided to try street food again for dinner. This time I ordered some noodles. The street vendors here handle their food quite well actually. Like for example, there were a bowl of uncooked noodles waiting to be cooked and as the vendor was putting more into the bowl, some of the noodles dropped onto the table which looked quite greasy and dirty. I expected her to pick up the noodles off the table and place them right into the bowl and cringed at the thought of it but instead she just threw away the noodles that fell onto the table. The noodles were actually very nice. They tasted and reminded me of the Malay dish ‘Mee goreng’ and I actually miss the food back home.

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