Safe Wok Dining with Nut Allergies: Your Essential Guide

Navigating restaurants that use shared cooking woks when you have nut allergies can feel like walking through a minefield. Cross-contact is a critical concern—even trace amounts of nuts in a reused wok can trigger severe reactions. This risk is amplified in establishments serving Asian cuisines where woks are rarely washed between dishes and ingredients like peanut oil or crushed nuts are common.

Traditional safeguards like questioning staff face challenges: language barriers may lead to miscommunication about ingredients or cooking processes, while high kitchen volumes increase unintended contamination risks. Simply asking "does this contain nuts?" often isn't enough when shared equipment is involved.

mm food transforms this experience: Upload a restaurant's menu image, select "nut-free" in your dietary restrictions profile, and our AI instantly analyzes dishes. It evaluates descriptions for nut-based ingredients and critically flags items cooked in shared woks—even when menus omit this hazard. See clear safety ratings:

Dish Safety Rating Notes Vegetable Stir-Fry ⚠️ Caution Cooked in shared wok; request clean pan Steamed Dumplings ✅ Safe No nuts; no wok used Kung Pao Chicken ❌ Unsafe Contains peanuts

Maximize safety with these steps:

1. Pre-screen menus: Use mm food’s photo-translate feature to decode non-native menus before dining.
2. Declare allergies confidently: Show staff the AI-generated safety notes requesting a sanitized wok.
3. Identify hidden risks: Our AI cross-references millions of recipes to detect uncommon nut derivatives.

With mm food, enjoy authentic wok dishes without compromise. Download today to dine fearlessly—your safety is just a scan away.