Hot pot is a brilliant invention. You give people boiled water and they make their own meal. They pay you when done and walk away happy – no muss and fuss. So, if you have yourself a sweet deal like that, why screw it up?
This is one of the many questions we are eager to discuss with the owner of Original Flavor hot pot after the restaurant was raided on March 23 for unsanitary food practices.
According to Shenzhen Daily, it all started with a footage that was secretly filmed in the restaurant’s kitchen by a Shenzhen TV reporter. If you are an avid hot pot goer, you may want to stop reading right about now. Sure? Okay then.
The footage revealed happy and well-fed cockroaches wandering around on the kitchen floor, dirty water was used to 'wash' vegetables. The restaurant’s signature soup – which was supposed to me made of pure coconut juice – turned out to be a concoction of water and 'unidentified powder' (which was later discovered to be sugar). Customers were also served expired food.
The city’s market supervision administration raided Original Flavor, located at the intersection of Fumin Road and Yitian Road, on March 23, and seized expired food items, including beef that did not have quarantine certificates.
Original Flavor is a brand with over 30 branches in Shenzhen. Two more locations were raided, but no expired food was found. However, some employees failed to present health certificates and the tableware was not properly disinfected.
Is there a lesson in all of this? Probably not. We’ve seen it before and we are sure to see it again. All we can do is clench our stomachs and wait for those promised super food safety measures to finally kick in.
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