PHOTOS: Woman posts about maggots in Oriental House dim sum, gets accused of faking the whole thing

If you’ve been craving dim sum lately and/or were planning on having it for breakfast tomorrow, you might want to look away from this story… or then again, maybe you should look so you know what to keep an eye out for in your meal. Earlier this week, one Oriental House customer took to Facebook to reveal that her order of dim sum came with an ingredient that wasn’t on the menu: maggots.

According to Facebook user Stella Phyu Pyar’s post, although she and her family are — or at least, were — regular Oriental House customers, Tuesday was the first time that they’d ordered it to go.

“[My son] really likes this particular meat dish, so I fed him a lot of it. Afterwards, I was going to throw out some crumbled scraps that he had left behind,” she wrote.

“I picked it up and little white things started crawling onto my hand,” she continued, and well, you can see where this is headed.

Of course, Stella Phyu Pyar also uploaded photos and videos showing the maggots moving around in the food and the sauce. (Warning: scroll past if you’re currently in the middle of a meal.)

When she tried to ask Oriental House as to how the heck maggots ended up in her child’s dim sum, they didn’t really have an answer.

She explained: “When I called the restaurant, they said that they prepare the meat a day in advance. Everyone knows that maggots don’t appear in meat within just a day. You can even prepare it two to three days in advance and put it in a warmer or freezer and it’ll be fine.

“The only cause I can think of is if you keep switching the freezer or warmer on and off. You conserve a bit of electricity to breed a lot of insects.”

While maggots in your food is bad enough, that wasn’t the end of the story. As the internet can be a pretty crappy place, yesterday, Stella Phyu Pyar posted another update in response to people who had actually suggested that she had staged the whole thing.

Apparently, users were sharing the videos without copying the text, which prompted more users to post comments such as ‘How many months after buying it did she eat it?’ and ‘Look at this newlywed couple who don’t cook their own food’, and accuse Stella Phyu Pyar of trying to ruin the restaurant’s name.

Understandably furious at the allegations, she wrote: “Sure, I wanted to ruin their name so badly that I fed my own kid maggots. If my child had become ill or gotten diarrhea, I’d have already filed a lawsuit against [the restaurant]. It’s a good thing nothing happened.”

We’re also glad nothing happened to the kid, and good on Stella Phyu Pyar for standing up for herself in the face of comments that are arguably as unacceptable and gross as the maggots.