BEIJING (AFP) – One of China’s biggest restaurant chains is having to compensate thousands of customers after footage emerged of a patron peeing into a vat of its simmering hotpot.
The Haidilao chain admitted that two men urinated into a cauldron of its beloved broth at its branch on the Bund in Shanghai after a late-night dinner.
Two 17-year-olds called Wu and Tang have been held by police.
As disgusted customers wondered if they had been served up the steaming soup, the chain confessed it had no “contingency plans for dealing with this type of incident”, so “staff were unable to detect any abnormalities”.
But furious diners gave its belated mea culpa short shift on social media, saying it had first attacked “malicious information spreaders” before owning up to the extra umami.
