What’s worse than finding a cockroach in your pork chop and rice? Finding half a cockroach in your pork chop and rice, duh!
Hong Kong cafeteria Fairwood Fast Food has been fined the maximum penalty of HKD10,000 after a customer suffered the above worst case scenario.
According to an Apple Daily report, a consumer surnamed Siu noticed a dark spot in the meal he/she purchased from the branch at Amoy Plaza in Kowloon Bay.
After a sample was sent to Hong Kong’s Food and Environmental Hygiene Department (FEHD), it was confirmed that the 6-7 millimetre dark spot was in fact part of the body of a cockroach.
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A representative for Fairwood pleaded for leniency in court this week, reasoning that no insects were found in the kitchen when the FEHD came for an inspection.
However, magistrate Yu Chun-pong, quite rightly, pointed out that such an achievement should be the minimum standard, not a badge of honour.
Records show that Fairwood has been convicted of 28 similar offences in the past.
