Dental hygiene in China or lack thereof

[Aliya]

What is it in China with dinosaur breath and literally green teeth? the guy in the aisle across from me on the plane had breath so bad I got more than a whiff of it. It reminded me of my Hong Kong days when a guy who was serving me to sell a phone had breath so bad I had to ask if he didnt serve me.

Dont people brush or something in China? I cant think of any other reason why their breath would be sooooooo bad.

[Raffles]

Maybe you have been smelling that damned garlic as I smell on them and others here and yes it stinks!

[Morrolan]

garlic doesn't smell bad...

[Raffles]

garlic doesn't smell bad...

Well maybe not..................on some roast potatoes of course.

[Tas]

I've never noticed bad breath particularly. I've had some pretty good flights actually (once I've mentally accepted the pushing and shoving and give as good as I get, or float along depending on my mood). Probably only thing I can think of is some really hardcore chain smoking chinese cigarette breath which is really frightening, but I wouldn't call that the norm.

Though now I think of it, there's some pretty hairy customers when you get a group of middle aged 'business' men who've clearly been on the baiju the night before, and had a few hair-of-the-dog before getting on the midafternoon flight. You've got be really unlucky to find yourself sitting in the middle of that crowd just behind the wing for 3+ hours.