Reporters Wang Jiaheng, Jiang Wenxian, Cao Shengzhang / Yunlin Report
▲ This seafood shop in Yunlin Gukeng is quite famous. (Image/Flip by Alan Pangpang from YouTube)
A famous seafood restaurant in Yunlin, like a small aquarium, has the finest seafood shipped to Taiwan by air. Unexpectedly, Shen Shengteng, the head of the local Gukeng Township, was exposed. Collect the kitchen waste. But in reality, food waste from restaurants should be collected by private operators. Why did the public cleaning team help in the first place? The mayor replied that he had good intentions at first, but now that the restaurant has made money, he should find someone to pick up the garbage himself, and he’s certainly not for the wasabi that turned his face.
YouTuber: “Yeah, this place is a seafood shop and there’s an aquarium that big.”
The vast inland seafood restaurant is located in Yunlin Gukeng. He’s very famous. It claims to have the most air-freighted high-quality fresh seafood in Taiwan. It’s like a miniature aquarium. He even breeds sharks. Unexpectedly, the local mayor Shen Shengteng was exposed here to make trouble.
▲ The head of the township was photographed insisting on free “continuous wasabi”.
Restaurant staff: “A piece of mustard costs 500 to 600 yuan, which is more expensive than sashimi.”
Gukeng Township Mayor Shen Shengteng: “Let me tell you, tell your boss to get out.”
Restaurant staff: “Our boss doesn’t come out.”
The clerk explained in a low voice that the material was expensive and politely refused the commune head’s wish to “continue the wasabi.”
Gukeng Township Mayor Shen Shengteng: “In the future, we will not transport kitchen waste from your fish shop.”
Restaurant staff: “Major, don’t do it.”
The mayor immediately turned his back on him and told him to collect the kitchen waste himself.
Eyewitness: “Take advantage of being the boss of a small town, but tell the store what you want. Because the unit price is quite high, the store has no way to entertain you, so they say they don’t bring their own stuff and trash. The cleaning crew did not immediately pick up the car that day.
Gukeng Town Mayor Shen Shengteng (July 2019): “Please ask (the architect) to see it first, and the illegal construction will be demolished.”
Shen Shengteng was a representative member of the peasant association and vice president of the village representative association. Four years ago, he participated in the township head election and won the election, but there were unfavorable assessments from the local area.
Witness: “The factory was often called by him to pay the bill, and he would call the cleaning crew to dispose of it for recycling. It’s public property. How can you scare people like that.”
Shen Shengteng, Mayor of Gukeng Township: “(I) pay cash for everything I eat, and I don’t owe anyone either. I can help him (the owner) with good intentions when he first comes.) If he himself (pay someone to pick it up) we are under no obligation.”
As for the charge against the mayor, he said it was malicious defamation and explained that the cleaning team was not helping to collect food waste. The restaurant only asked for help. Other restaurant operators revealed that food waste for business use had to be paid for by private operators However, the standard for compensation of Yunlin Gukeng is actually “wasabi”? It’s not hard to see how powerful the head of the commune is from just one sentence.
