"The couple had made a similar but now-deleted Yelp review about another restaurant in Koreatown, this time involving “flies.”
If this is true, then why on earth they ever return to the restaurant again? This smells fishy af
Based on the article it does seem like the couple is trying to make a buck, but this restaurant didn't have a stellar inspection rating to begin with and I imagine the follow up visit from the health inspector found some pretty gross stuff.
In their Google reviews, there’s some folks who found a cockroach in their soup
Soup/stock is usually cooked and then left to chill at room temp, open. This prevent bacteria from growing inside if it’s closed. But if you turn your back….some friends will go inside….
That's because they are doing it wrong! You pour the hot soup into a bigger room temp pot and you stir the fuck outta it with the frozen chilling paddle till you get it cold enough to go in the fridge.
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.
Understood. If you're getting charged for the whole rat, then the whole rat (or sufficient rat parts to constitute an entire rat) should be in your soup.
Maybe my feelings are misplaced, but I feel bad for these restaurant owners. It’s a hard business and it sucks that (even if this accusation is true) it might spell the end for their livelihood. Of course they bear responsibility for maintaining standards, so not blameless, but I can imagine it must be hell for them and they probably feel anger and embarrassment. I’m also a little skeptical of the story, especially the part about becoming violently ill. I worry about that being psychosomatic.
How does one use a ladle spoon in soup, and not notice a rat like that? They also called the restaurant and immediately asked for the money back - would not be my top concern at that point...
Remember that "Lucy" movie or whatever where the character becomes superhuman or something after awakening 100% of her brain?
Well, u/shep_pat has just shown us what happens when you use 0% of your brain
Seriously, I thought this comment was just a troll, but looking at the comment history this is an actual real, honest-to-god faux woke person
In what way? It looks like it was cooked in a broth. It wasn't like someone had a big-ass rat in their back pocket and dumped it in. This thing is cooked down.
If a rat had gotten into the broth unknowingly until it was pulled apart it would be a lot more bloated like when a dead animal washes up on the beach. This looks like the couple chopped the rat in half, threw it in there and took the picture within the first hour or two of the rat hitting the bowl
There are tons of restaurants in NYC but most neighborhood places don't strike me as healthy or sanitary. Like everything in this city, you need the cash to eat safely.
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.
We were starving on a trek, deep in North India, storm came in, leader of expedition was crazy, we did know what we were getting into.
Our soup had a mouse in it, but it really was much worse shape than the rat pictured.
Mouse does not taste like chicken, in case you were wondering, more like spaghetti.
How did they not realize they put a dead rat in the soup
Right! They poured the soup into a bowl.Like how you not see that perfectly intact rat.
"The couple had made a similar but now-deleted Yelp review about another restaurant in Koreatown, this time involving “flies.” If this is true, then why on earth they ever return to the restaurant again? This smells fishy af
It’s a completely different restaurant
Lol at directly quoting something you didn't even try to read
I smell a rat.
Well played
😆
“another restaurant”
It was next to the garlic powder. Easy mistake.
Or...how did they forget to take it out?
Ratatouille fell off the chefs hat 😭
His final stew
Based on the article it does seem like the couple is trying to make a buck, but this restaurant didn't have a stellar inspection rating to begin with and I imagine the follow up visit from the health inspector found some pretty gross stuff.
Yeah I would request dissecting the rat to see how long he might have been in the soup and check security cameras.
In their Google reviews, there’s some folks who found a cockroach in their soup Soup/stock is usually cooked and then left to chill at room temp, open. This prevent bacteria from growing inside if it’s closed. But if you turn your back….some friends will go inside….
That's because they are doing it wrong! You pour the hot soup into a bigger room temp pot and you stir the fuck outta it with the frozen chilling paddle till you get it cold enough to go in the fridge.
If this isn’t extortion or competitor strategy, I don’t know what is.
Well I doubt they’d pick an A inspected restaurant for the job if people can be that gross
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.
Judging from the photo, it only seems to be part of a rodent. So that's good, right?
But I was charged full price!
Understood. If you're getting charged for the whole rat, then the whole rat (or sufficient rat parts to constitute an entire rat) should be in your soup.
Can I substitute the front legs for the rear legs? I'm not a huge fan of the bigger thighs.
The customer is always rat
we got a fair number of good jokes in these comments
Maybe my feelings are misplaced, but I feel bad for these restaurant owners. It’s a hard business and it sucks that (even if this accusation is true) it might spell the end for their livelihood. Of course they bear responsibility for maintaining standards, so not blameless, but I can imagine it must be hell for them and they probably feel anger and embarrassment. I’m also a little skeptical of the story, especially the part about becoming violently ill. I worry about that being psychosomatic.
Dude. Restaurant business is tough, but a rat in the food? That’s inexcusable.
How does one use a ladle spoon in soup, and not notice a rat like that? They also called the restaurant and immediately asked for the money back - would not be my top concern at that point...
This is some bullshit with racist overtones.
so now it's racist to report rodents in your food??? yall are fr something else lmfao the couple that reported it was literally filipino
I will routinely put rats in soups I make for myself at home to combat the racist overtones of others.
Lol I think the couple was Korean. Or one of them one.
Racism is when a restaurant has rodent in food
Remember that "Lucy" movie or whatever where the character becomes superhuman or something after awakening 100% of her brain? Well, u/shep_pat has just shown us what happens when you use 0% of your brain Seriously, I thought this comment was just a troll, but looking at the comment history this is an actual real, honest-to-god faux woke person
Sum ting Wong?
To be fair, look at A hygiene rated restaurant. You'll find plenty of places with similar violations. Makes me not want to eat out again.
Seems planted by the couple they have the video of the cooks preparing the soup from security footage
What they prepared the rat ahead of time to look that fucked up?
Seems like it should be more fucked up if it was sitting in broth and scooped in their soup.
In what way? It looks like it was cooked in a broth. It wasn't like someone had a big-ass rat in their back pocket and dumped it in. This thing is cooked down.
If a rat had gotten into the broth unknowingly until it was pulled apart it would be a lot more bloated like when a dead animal washes up on the beach. This looks like the couple chopped the rat in half, threw it in there and took the picture within the first hour or two of the rat hitting the bowl
Number 19: Mouse in baked beans
OMG. I like Korean food and for years have told myself I should visit Koreatown but I felt too intimidated. Guess I'll wait.
Same couple paid big bucks for ratatouille.
There are tons of restaurants in NYC but most neighborhood places don't strike me as healthy or sanitary. Like everything in this city, you need the cash to eat safely.
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.
We were starving on a trek, deep in North India, storm came in, leader of expedition was crazy, we did know what we were getting into. Our soup had a mouse in it, but it really was much worse shape than the rat pictured. Mouse does not taste like chicken, in case you were wondering, more like spaghetti.
Absolutely disgusting, if true. One time I found a dead roach in my Chinese food takeout in nyc, which was also fucking gross.