Even since we were young, we’ve been told to be nice to two groups of people: the people who cut our hair and the people who cook our food.
Rub a hairdresser the wrong way and we’d have to wear a cap for a few months.
Rub the cook the wrong way and you’d have an extra ingredient in your food.
Case in point: this customer in Xi’an, China.
Customer Wants a Dish to be Recooked
Xi-an is the capital of Shaanxi Province in central China with over 12 million people living in the city.
The province now has 308 COVID-19 confirmed cases with 3 deaths, and it is one of the provinces that’s least hit during the pandemic.
Nevertheless, the province has taken precautions during the outbreak, and just like most of China now, life is more or less back to normal.
Wearing a mask is not compulsory, though.
And that causes a bit of a problem.
Customer Found a Cigarette Butt in Dish
On 10 May 2020, a customer in a restaurant, for some reason, wanted a dish to be recooked.
Nothing’s wrong with that, except that when the dish came back, he found a Cigarette butt in the dish.
Shocked?
Read on.
The customer then demanded to see the CCTV footage which revealed that the cigarette butt was accidentally dropped into the dish by the server.
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An honest mistake that shouldn’t have happened, so they offered a refund and live happily ever.
Not.
While reviewing the CCTV, they came across something even more disturbing.
It turned out that the chef, while recooking the dish, had just nonchalantly spat a large glob of long saliva into the dish while cooking.
He then continued to stir-fry the dish as if nothing has happened.
According to the staff there, the chef hadn’t felt well that day and didn’t feel comfortable with the smell in the kitchen, and therefore had to spit.
What a goody response.
Restaurant Closed the Next Day
After the incident, the restaurant was closed the next day.
When a reporter probed on whether the incident could have contributed to its closure, the person who answered the phone refused to provide more details.
Nevertheless, the restaurant now faces a suspension, a 100,000-yuan fine (~S$20,121) and a possible revoke of their licence.
And that’s for breaking the normal laws—it’s unknown whether there’s any unique COVID-19 laws in place in the region.
Now you know why over in Singapore, anyone who handles food is required to wear a mask.
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