CHINESE food may be the UK’s favourite takeaway but after seeing this video you’ll never look at your sweet and sour pork the same way again.

A fire protection contractor has taken behind the scenes videos of a Chinese restaurant they visited and the conditions in the kitchen are shocking.

“As a fire protection contractor, I have access to lots of restaurant kitchens in my city. The following videos are typical of most Chinese restaurants that I visit,” they wrote alongside the clips.

“From unrefrigerated chicken and beef pretty much on the floor, to bug traps on top of canned food, this place was disgusting.”

The candid clips show open containers of what looks like battered meat – as found in Chinese classics like crispy beef and sweet and sour chicken – stacked on top of each other.

Trays piled with raw meat are left on shelves just a few inches off the ground, which has seen cleaner days, while elsewhere a tray of uncooked food is used to prop open a rotting door.

The video, allegedly taken in a Chinese restaurant in Iowa, USA, also reveals industrial-sized buckets of soy sauce stacked up against the wall and left open with ladles sitting in them.