The Oishi group, which runs the Shabushi chain of restaurants, apologized to a customer who claimed to have found maggots crawling over a table at one of its branches.
A video clip and photos of maggots wriggling on noodles at a Bangkok outlet of a popular buffet restaurant chain went viral on Thursday.
The video clip was first uploaded to YouTube on Wednesday by user Mademoisellesmull, and was later shared on the popular Pantip.com web board by a person using the pseudonym purrpaww.
According to purrpaww, a friend went to Central Ladprao and decided to eat at Shabushi. While she was eating, some of the soba noodles fell on the table and she saw a cluster of writhing maggots feasting on the food.
Purrpaww wrote that the diner took several photos and recorded a short video of the maggots in front of her, paid her restaurant bill and left immediately.
The customer, who claimed to have borrowed a friend’s login, posted on the Pantip website on Wednesday night that a friend of his went to have a meal at a Shabushi restaurant in Central Ladprao.
He claimed the friend dropped a piece of soba noodle on the table top in which a shabu pot was embedded.
After a while he saw maggots crawl out of the rim of the shabu pot and swarm over the piece of noodle.
The poster uploaded a video clip and photo showing the alleged incident.
The Shabushi restaurant’s management on Thursday issued a statement apologising for the incident.
The statement said it had assigned staff to investigate the complaint and take immediate action, the Bangkok Post reported.
