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heresmyusername t1_jckssah wrote

"No New York City restaurant is authorized to have mice or rats on the menu..."

this was so strange to read

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Nameless_American t1_jcn2ut2 wrote

Hahahahah what’s even better is that that isn’t some weird sentence written in the article but comes from the actual statement from the Mayor’s office

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mowotlarx t1_jcl157d wrote

This is almost 100% of the time a money grab scam by the customers. I'm sorry, but given the track record of stories like this I have a hard time believing it.

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fattythrow2020 t1_jclbp2a wrote

I’ve had that dish before (not there) and the rice comes separately. So they’re telling us that they poured out the thin, liquidy soup into a bowl, added in the rice, spooned it around and THEN noticed a mouse? Not to mention that the mouse does not look very waterlogged or bloated (like when animals wash up on the beach)? K.

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greenpowerade t1_jcltrjk wrote

That's true. Rice is always in a separate container. It's like they noticed the mouse mid meal

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cedartreee t1_jcnv7w3 wrote

I’ve been to this exact restaurant many times and they actually serve the rice in the soup 😭

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awesomecytoplasm t1_jclkfed wrote

Literally my first thought. People thought I was crazy for defending the restaurant in the Instagram comments but they literally transferred the contents of the takeout container to their own bowls. Like do yall not see the dark ass rodent as you poured??

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DryGumby t1_jcn05of wrote

I might've taken those odds if they didn't have a C rating. Even the dirtiest placest can manage a B. C rating restaurant food must be served straight from the trash. That said, there's a chance the customers did it for that reason.

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bittoxic00 t1_jcm6cvd wrote

And now a small business is gone

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PvtHudson t1_jcmn23c wrote

Bro, the place has had a C rating with 79 points worth of violations since the previous inspection that took place in January of this year:

https://a816-health.nyc.gov/ABCEatsRestaurants/#!/Search/50040296

What a fucking travesty. /s

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hoyunah t1_jcmoofp wrote

That's the most damning thing to me. I was skeptical of the story mostly due to denial as this was a place I loved in college but after working in restaurant industry and how easy it is to game even an A rating, even a B grade means there is A LOT of problems

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OGPants t1_jco5ngl wrote

People underestimate how EASY it is to get an A grade. To get anything lower just means the restaurant owners either don't give a f or are extremely incompetent.

I also worked in food industry during high school and college.

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thegameksk t1_jcpw66v wrote

The exterminator at my old job used to tell me horror stores about all of these big restaurants with A ratings. He said he would only eat at small mom and pop shops.

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lickedTators t1_jcqrcw8 wrote

But having a C rating might be why they targeted this restaurant. Makes it more believable, as you illustrate.

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PoopEmoji8618 t1_jcktqaw wrote

Wow that’s crazy that the couple also deleted a yelp review on another restaurant about flies. Not sure how Gammeeok found it if it was deleted but idk much about yelp.

Gammeeok also has video footage of them serving the soup with no rat. Makes it seem like the couple is the one at fault but interested to see how the story develops.

I personally have never been but I would hate to see a restaurant go down if this is in fact not true

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Southern-Ad-2328 t1_jclmf8x wrote

Gammeok posted one video of a man putting soup in a container. There’s no proof that it is this particular soup. I find it very hard to believe the couple went to trouble of finding a rat, cooking it just to swindle some cash from a restaurant.

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OhGoodOhMan t1_jcm4xug wrote

The "foreign object in my restaurant food" shakedown has been done before. That said, we're all just speculating.

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mowotlarx t1_jcm55fk wrote

>I find it very hard to believe the couple went to trouble of finding a rat, cooking it just to swindle some cash from a restaurant.

Interesting because that is always how these rat/mouse in food stories end up.

Which is more likely? That a scammer pulled a common scam? Or that someone didn't notice they cooked a rat? Or spooned out a rat? We already know the answer.

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ColdButts t1_jcmt4vi wrote

The scam is so much more likely. Worked in a lot of gross restaurants with a lot of dumb people, but no one’s fucking dumb enough to actually let an animal fall into a boiling hot pot and not notice. Don’t you think it would splash? Don’t you think it would squeal? Cooks stir the soup before they ladle it out. They stare at the pot to do that. The kitchens have lights. I know this is all mindblowing. Rats or mice in the restaurant? Very likely, here in NYC. Mice are more likely overall, but I’ve seen rats too. Almost certainly cockroaches somewhere in every restaurant as well, even if only in small number and mostly unseen.

But, to answer your question: what is more likely? Well I’ve seen 0 animals in food in my time working in NYC and I’ve had countless clueless, cheap, bored, or outright scammy customers complaining about some shit that isn’t the restaurant’s fault or business. So idk how you managed to get all the yuppies upvoting your clueless armchair guess, but it’s wildly off base.

edit: didn't realize you actually shared my POV lol. Sorry, but what I said still stands for all the racists in here.

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RyuNoKami t1_jco6pt8 wrote

right? not even a bit of a rat, no, a full fucking cooked rat. sure. sure.

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Harsimaja t1_jcn9u8s wrote

Why do you find this hard to believe? This is one of the most famous and genuinely performed swindles out there. You think that planting a rat from some bag is a limit that people might go to for a lot of money?

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DallasMarcie t1_jco5boh wrote

A well to do couple from well off families I might add with prestigious careers. Ambulance chasers I think not. If you said thrill seekers that's more plausible but still highly doubtful. Plus wouldn't you sue if the risk to your life was insulted with a payoff? I think people are forgetting the health implications of this is literally deadly serious. Many people have died from leptospirosis from rats contaminating the lips of containers with pee or droppings (always wash soda cans or even any exposed lid). What more of a whole rat with the other things they carry inside their bodies like parasites. Those things are harder to kill with heat even. So yeah let that sink in and try not to treat it as a joke and see if you wouldn't go through the same thing when it does happen to you.

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mowotlarx t1_jcoru4b wrote

>well to do couple from well off families

Literally nothing in any article about them mentions this. The wife is an "editor" for low circulation web magazines mostly with her name attached to poorly written ads pretending to be articles about The Best Mascara. With a quick Google search, I'm left more convinced this is a scam than before.

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fattythrow2020 t1_jcp0od6 wrote

A quick search shows that she’s a blogger (sorry, “editor”) in her 40s who probably makes like max 50-75k a year. How is that “well off” or prestigious? She’s a joke with nothing to lose. Lmao

Your entire post history is about this incident only. Bet they looked for restaurants with low grades and went for it. F off.

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Kblack1101 t1_jckqmph wrote

“When we transferred the soup, we served it four times with a ladle while the staff watched it with their eyes,” Gammeeok stated. “If there was a mouse that big, there's no way I wouldn't have missed it.”

Yep - pretty much nailed it there.

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NetQuarterLatte t1_jclcwu7 wrote

Even taking the spirit of what they meant, this kind of reads "we could possibly have a rat in the pot, but no way we would serve it to the customer!"

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Harsimaja t1_jcn9zma wrote

It’s a confusing expression for non-native speakers to get the negatives right

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awesomecytoplasm t1_jclkmr8 wrote

I think the couple could be lying. Until there is evidence, let's not slander or partake in defamation. They have a cat that could've brought in dead rodents and planted it there to sue for money. The lied about the restaurant not giving them chopsticks when camera footage shows that they did. The woman also threw out the EVIDENCE (the rodent). Why throw out the evidence? They can send the rodent to a lab because if it were in the soup for a long time, they would find the soup inside the rodent. Social media is fake people!!!! No evidence no case.They transferred the soup in the takeout containers to their own bowls. There's no way they didn't look when pouring and a dark rodent would have stood right out. Instead they "discovered" it when nearly finished. Weird because when you eat with chopsticks or other utensils, you are poking around/touching/stirring your food. At least I do when I eat with chopsticks lol. I don't really believe them.

edit: Some of you bitter racist people need to stop with the racist comments!!!! This can happen in any other restaurant not just a Korean one.

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ColdButts t1_jcmu1p0 wrote

Holy shit these ppl are racist as fuck. Was confused about the upvotes/downvotes in here until I remembered what kind of restaurant it was.

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oreosfly t1_jcluph3 wrote

> Some of you bitter racist people need to stop with the racist comments

Unfortunately some terrible people never let a crisis go to waste…

Nonetheless, the fact that a) this restaurant has a history of questionable food safety practices, and b) DOH’s follow up inspection found evidence of live rodents in the restaurant, it’s better to be safe than sorry and shutting the place down was the right move.

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bittoxic00 t1_jcm75ny wrote

The couple demanded $5000 then $25000. What chaser lawyer took this case on?

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fattythrow2020 t1_jcmkfw7 wrote

“Robert L. Astrachan, a lawyer from Carrion Accident & Injury Attorneys, representing Lucero-Lee and her husband, filed a lawsuit in the Supreme Court of the State of New York…”

Indeed ambulance chasers. The owner of the “firm” has a TikTok. Lmao

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MICKEY-MOUSES-DICK t1_jcx04m9 wrote

Also something ain't right. So, they said they found it after eating half of the food and then vomited their food after discovery. But it was take-out... They couldn't see the rat in the clear take-out container? They didn't see it as they transferred the food into their bowl? You mean to tell me that they didn't notice it in their bowl as they were eating it?

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ukudancer t1_jckweed wrote

Sounds like a money-grab scam by the couple

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Mens-pocky46 t1_jcl1wst wrote

On one hand it does seem like the couple is money-hungry, but on the other it says health inspectors did find rat droppings at the restaurant. I don't know who to believe

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ninkorn t1_jcl9tzb wrote

Rat droppings found in NYC restaurants are common. It's almost inevitable.

Rats found in food is much more rare and entirely a different story though....

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Swimmingindiamonds t1_jclgair wrote

I saw a rat inside Dominique Ansel…

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AnacharsisIV t1_jcnur3d wrote

I saw a gerbil inside Richard Gere, what's your point?

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Swimmingindiamonds t1_jcqxce7 wrote

My point is that rats are common and everywhere. Basically supporting the person above me’s comment.

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Very_Bad_Janet t1_jcmizzk wrote

Remember that video of rats in the cheesecake display case at Junior's in Brooklyn?

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Mens-pocky46 t1_jcl9wnf wrote

Nah man, you aren't getting an A rating with those

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ColdButts t1_jcmtofl wrote

True, but they’ll likely give you a probation window of a week or two for you to clean things up and try again. Unless it’s really bad.

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mowotlarx t1_jcm4kfx wrote

Having rat droppings in a restaurant is bad. But that doesn't make it logical that someone would cook a mouse or rat and it end up in a soup. It's highly unlikely.

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Mens-pocky46 t1_jcmojdw wrote

I didn't say it means they cooked the rat, but it does cast doubt on their press statement of being squeaky clean victims and that everything is okay with the restaurants safety. Btw rat droppings is more than just bad, it's grounds for getting shut down

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DallasMarcie t1_jco3z99 wrote

The couple isn't money hungry. They're pretty well to do from well off families. Money is the least of their worries. Health is. No amount of money can pay for the many things you can possibly get from rats. Death included. Let that sink in.

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ricepalace t1_jckj6wc wrote

Yeah I really don't believe this at all. Picture also shows another bowl. So they dumped it from the to-go container into the bowl then saw it? Just seems very off.

Edit: Welp nevermind. https://a816-health.nyc.gov/ABCEatsRestaurants/#!/Search/50040296

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thebatman924 t1_jckko02 wrote

You don’t believe that a mouse was found inside food ordered from a restaurant in NYC? I’m surprised it doesn’t happen more 🐁❤️

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ManhattanRailfan t1_jckl7zj wrote

Yeah, for real. This doesn't even look like a rat. And I've been to Gammeeok a lot of times, it's on the second floor, for one thing, so rats are a bit less likely, and that soup looks mostly finished. How could a person eat that much without noticing?

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ricepalace t1_jcklji6 wrote

I will say look at the link I just put in my edit. That's pretty bad.

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ManhattanRailfan t1_jckls2n wrote

The city shut them down as a result of the lawsuit. I still don't really buy it.

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ricepalace t1_jckm2vz wrote

Yeah but look back to January 18th of this year. Just saying it's kinda right there...

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thebatman924 t1_jckm7gx wrote

He’s mad he had some rat as well and can’t stomach the truth

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thebatman924 t1_jcklpvz wrote

Yea go look at their health grade violations 😂, you’re just mad that you also probably had some ratty soup 🐀🥣

“2) Evidence of rats or live rats in establishment's food or non-food areas.”

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BurningBeechbone t1_jcl88aq wrote

Evidence of rats could easily be a dropping by the back door. For them to have such a rat issue that it is getting into fresh made soup, they would have been shut down a long time ago.

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spicytoastaficionado t1_jcndg8f wrote

> for one thing, so rats are a bit less likely

Being on the second floor is hardly a barrier for NYC rodents.

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SolitaryMarmot t1_jcl4eat wrote

I once got a giant roach stuck inside a tomato slice of a salad. I complained and they told me I made it up for money. I complained to DOH and they did an inspection that landed the place in temporary shut down. They re-opened but never recovered and the place closed like 3 months later.

Never eat at a place with a C rating though. Gross. This place should be shut down too.

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961402 t1_jcli0op wrote

Years ago someone posted a picture on this sub of a restaurant that had "BRUNCH" spelled out on individual pieces of paper with colorful letters in the window and you had to look somewhat close to notice that the "C" was the DOHMH rating

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SolitaryMarmot t1_jclxepc wrote

Omg I remember that. Hahaha it was kinda funny though.

But seriously considering how easy it is to get an A grade...a place with a C is one tiny step above spreading botulism

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bikeskata t1_jckfkbq wrote

Well shit. That's something you don't see every day.

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ProfessionalGreat240 t1_jclhrze wrote

And it still isn't because it didn't happen

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mowotlarx t1_jcm5be0 wrote

This story is the equivalent of one of those white grandpas in the south calling the news because some Antifa wrote "Black People Rule" on their garage. Or that lady who carved a B into her face and claimed a gang of Obama supporters robbed and assaulted her.

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Crimsonwolf1445 t1_jcn14j4 wrote

Most of the hate crime hoaxes dont have white “victims”

We had smollett who is black

That muslim girl who claimed she got junped by trump fanatics for wearing a hijab on a crowded nyc train… and then admitted she made that up to get away with breaking curfew.

Etc.

Although i do find the idea of a white grandpa writing “black people rule” on his shit and trying to claim a hate crime hysterical

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spicytoastaficionado t1_jcm7yb7 wrote

>This story is the equivalent of one of those white grandpas in the south calling the news because some Antifa wrote "Black People Rule" on their garage.

Of all the racial graffiti hoaxes that have made the news in the past few years, most of them were not perpetuated by "white grandpas in the south" so it is weird you are using a fringe example to make your point.

If you don't believe me, just Google "graffiti race hoax" and you will find a common theme with the overwhelming majority of the suspects, and it isn't the perps being southern grandpas.

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2Liberal4You t1_jd1n018 wrote

"I am very angry about your hypothetical" is not a healthy disposition. Calm down.

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em349nw t1_jclkod2 wrote

if you listen to the dude in the video in a very subbuded tone "We found a rat in out soup" ?
if that happened to me I'd be screaming! sounds like a money scam.

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spicytoastaficionado t1_jcm7aww wrote

It will be interesting to see how this develops.

I agree with the other comments that a restaurant worker not seeing a whole rat when ladling soup seems far-fetched.

Restaurant also making some bold claims on their IG page regarding the couple trying to extort them, while the couple claims that the restaurant attempted to bribe them into silence.

I suppose we'll wait and see how this develops.

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KirbyxArt t1_jclqzp8 wrote

Yo its hard to get shut down by the DOH. Have you seen what violations a C warrants but they still open? The inspectors musta seen some egregious shit to close it down.

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MC-Sherm t1_jclybb4 wrote

I think when a viral photo of a rat in soup goes out you go to the inspection with intentions of a shutdown if things aren’t perfect. If I was this owner and I knew my kitchen was dirty, I would’ve started cleaning my restaurant as soon as this went viral

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ohwhatj t1_jcltt8x wrote

A couple of years ago my GF and I went a popular Pho place in Flushing. My GF was eating and all of a sudden she started screaming “there’s a roach in my Pho”. The couple next to us casually turns to us and say “ First time here?” And turns back to their food and kept on eating.

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lastinglovehandles t1_jcnkli9 wrote

Sounds like ippudo at St Marks. I was gonna work there and saw roaches climbing down the big red round table they got. I abruptly stopped eating.

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The_Swoley_Ghost t1_jcorcoi wrote

Wow i paid 9 dollars for a tiny piece of added pork when i could have just had a roach for free? Damn.

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Jaylove2019 t1_jcnd5w6 wrote

Eww. Me and my man went to this high star more than thousand yelpers & Google rave about this Flushing restaurant by Main Street- Shanghai You Garden. I sat down eating when a roach crossing our table. Another bigger roach was walking towards me from clear division between tables for Covid protection. My man attempted to take it out but in process it landed very close to my bag. I screamed and ran away from my table. Other customers already saw and heard my concern. No one seems to be bothered even my man. I told him I do not have appetite anymore and I’m not eating. He finished his food and enjoyed the crispy duck on bun just like the couple next to our table. 🤮🤮🤮🤮🤮🤮🤮

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-blourng- t1_jcrsyk6 wrote

The customers are most likely liars and scam artists.

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otdr11211 t1_jcq9q6u wrote

This restaurant has an "R" rating.

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[deleted] t1_jcqe11l wrote

NYC is so infested with roaches and rats i’m surprised this doesn’t happen more often

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terryjohnson16 t1_jckmz0i wrote

I rather them be shut down and learn from their carelessness. Restaurants tend to not listen to customers complaints about food issues. But the DoH issues speaks volumes and should be a wakeup call to these restaurants.

Who knows how many other complaints they had prior to this encounter being made public.

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PKMKII t1_jclboho wrote

RIP Remi

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hjablowme919 t1_jcm46v0 wrote

"There's a dead rat in there! Grub!"

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ummaycoc t1_jcn864m wrote

Is that better or worse than a live rat?

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OasisRush t1_jcsl90f wrote

Our ancestors ate rodents like a restaurant meal

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mrjackyliang t1_jd1rorl wrote

From my experience, the restaurant has employee problems. Not sure if the one commenting on social media is the founder, but damn, he think's everyone just has it against him or something.

If you've dined in the restaurant and compared actual service to the others, you can somehow feel that difference.

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Elevate247 t1_jcok371 wrote

Outdoor dining is great

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doowapeedoo t1_jclqw5h wrote

A travesty to kimchi jiggae everywhere.

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Henrychinaskismom1 t1_jcnnqcg wrote

STFU and send it back. POS litigious twats. Rats happen. Sometimes

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yuriydee t1_jckpl1a wrote

Damn thats nasty. Worst part is I think ive been there before couple of years ago.

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hyenaaazx t1_jckxt0c wrote

Likely the couple faked it in an attempt to extort the restaurant

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Pennwisedom t1_jcl1ko5 wrote

And the Health Department is in on it too?

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SpudPlugman t1_jclckgf wrote

Even if the rat was faked it looks like Gammeeok had TONS of violations this year

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mowotlarx t1_jcm5qpr wrote

Rodent violations are not evidence that they cook rats into food.

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DallasMarcie t1_jco2uvn wrote

If you read through it, they had food DELIVERED. You really wouldn't notice the rat unless you get some of the soup out, in which case the soup was split and some had been eaten and voila rat surprise. Also that soup isn't really the clearest of Korean soups with all the trimmings in it to boot. I've also read some comments that if it wasn't planted, the rat should have disintegrated in the cooking. That's assuming it was cooked from the start and had not fallen near the end of the cook. Also assuming rats have the same consistency of usual beef or pork meat. I'm not completely surprised that it could happen. The restaurant business is tough and standards are understandably difficult to maintain. So I would be harsher to judge a resto with plenty of health violations that should've been closed before would post as their defense in-store videos with no timestamps on orders picked up not by the couple but a delivery service. That does not exactly show anything against the claim - could've been somebody else's order. The mention of missing chopsticks and the disputed number of soups ordered seen in the video can readily be disputed by a "receipt" which I'm sure the couple could easily provide for their defense. If the receipt doesn't match the number of soups in the video then even the chopstick/soup counter claim of the reso falls apart. Yeah I highly doubt a well-to-do Asian couple would try to make a quick buck and file a lawsuit that could easily backfire if they and the lawyers weren't confident enough to prove otherwise. That and you would feel just as enraged if it were you in the couple's shoes. Eating a dead street rat is no joke. There's a crap ton of things you can get sick of from rats. Those are people's lives you're talking about, not just the couple, I'm sure they got soup from that same batch sent out with other orders as well without the "rat surprise". Just suck it up Gammeeok. You unknowingly made a bad order and should've handled it better.

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fattythrow2020 t1_jcp2rts wrote

Why do you keep claiming that the couple is “well to do” and “prestigious”? Because that has zero to do with anything anyone’s saying and they really are not lmao

Does your lawyer know that you’re defending yourself in the middle of the night on Reddit of all place lol

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