A New York couple got a nasty surprise on what was supposed to be a nice, quiet day eating after ordering at a restaurant. While eating a Korean dish known as ‘gukbap’ they were startled to look among the ingredients what appears to be the carcass of a rat.
Surprised and outraged, images have been uploaded to social networks showing what could be the limbs of the dead rat in the soup.
“We ordered from a well-known restaurant called Gammeeok in K-Town -located in Koreatown- and we found the most disgusting thing in our food», tells Lucero-Lee, affected by this discovery together with her husband, to ‘NewsBreak’.
She tells the medium that while they were having dinner and the dishes were already quite advanced – she was halfway through and her husband had taken two thirds – her partner perceived “a lump” among the ingredients. “What she initially thought was a vegetable, apparently it was the tail», reports.
“My husband pushed the table back and went to vomit because he had just found a rat in our food.”
“My husband pushed the table back and went to vomit because he had just found a rat in our food. It was quite horrible », he assures various local media.
Although everything happened a week ago, Lucero-Lee has decided to share her unpleasant experience now after consulting legal counsel what to do.
Due to this discovery, they both immediately went to a medical center where they were they prescribed some antibiotics to avoid any possible disease associated with the ingestion of this animal.
The local defends itself against the accusations
Both are going to file a complaint with the local. For his part, he has responded with the publication of a video on social networks where they show how they work in the restaurant’s kitchen and describe the accusations as “nonsense”. “Once, the person ordered food using Uber Eats. If a ‘rat’ came out, it could be argued as evidence by saying ‘Look at this’ when they came to our store, but we didn’t see anything real“, Defend themselves.
The affected has explained that she does not want any of the controversy to acquire a racist or hate component. She says that she has been a customer of the restaurant for more than a decade and has never had a problem with the quality of the food before.
For now, the incident investigation continues and the health department has closed the doors of the restaurant. According to ‘New York Post’, a sanitary inspection has revealed different violations with food, supplies and equipment not protected from a possible source of contamination.
In New York there is a widespread problem with the presence of rats. In fact, job offers have been published for highly paid ‘rat-catcher teachers’.
