A customer who ordered fried noodles from a restaurant in
Changsha, Hunan province, China on July 25th, forced the restaurant’s
owner to eat a cockroach he said he found in his food.
After the customer found the supposed cockroach, he told the
restaurant owner to either eat the cockroach or pay him 5,000 yuan
(£569).
The owner ate the cockroach instead. But the customer wasn’t a man of
his word, as he kept demanding money from the owner, adding that he
needed to be compensated financially for the bad experience he had, but
the owner refused to give in to the customer’s demands.
According to the owner and other customers, the restaurant had been
running for 11 years and had never encountered problems like this.
Some workers at the restaurant claimed that they thought they were
being blackmailed by the customer. One worker even fought tears while
she talked to reporters who came to interview them, saying she was upset
that her boss had been forced to eat the insect.
After the incident, o n July 26, the Food and Drug Administration
visited the restaurant for an inspection and discovered that the
restaurant was using outdated equipment and did not have the necessary
means to rid the establishment of flies or rats.
The FDA then ordered the restaurant to close for five days so that they could make the necessary changes.
