Rat in broth wipes $190 million off restaurant chain's value

GURPS

INGSOC
PREMO Member
At hotpot restaurants in China, most of the ingredients are relatively inexpensive. Customers dip pieces of raw meat and vegetables into a big vat of simmering broth until everything cooks and bubbles to the surface.

For one Chinese restaurant chain, however, an item found by a customer at one of its outlets has proved to be particularly costly: a rat.

A video of a small, dead rat — boiled, gelatinous and with its stunned arms outstretched — fished out of a vat of bubbling broth has shocked China, and sent shares of a popular restaurant chain plummeting.

The rat was found last week at a branch of the chain, Xiabu Xiabu, in Weifang, a city in the eastern province of Shandong. A local newspaper reported the incident on Friday and video footage of the customer picking the rat out with chopsticks circulated on Chinese social media all weekend.


Rat in broth wipes $190 million off restaurant chain's value
 

Gilligan

#*! boat!
PREMO Member
Bummer. Hotpot restaurants are still one of my favorite places over there.

Not sure I'd be able to spot the difference between rat and most of the other meat..it's all a mystery, pretty much.
 

Monello

Smarter than the average bear
PREMO Member
Vrai loves her Asian hot pot. Whatever you do don't let her see this post.
 
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