Dead rat found in food (video included!) - abortion offered

Rat in hotpot shocks pregnant woman, shuts down restaurant in eastern China

A hotpot restaurant in eastern China has been shut down and a pregnant woman is undergoing health checks after a dead rat was found in a family’s meal. Authorities in Weifang, Shandong province, have suspended the branch of popular hotpot restaurant chain Xiabu Xiabu in the latest in a string of food safety scandals in China.

A man from Weifang surnamed Ma said he and his family were eating at the restaurant on Thursday night when, after a few bites, his wife found a dead rat in the soup. Shanghai-based Kankan News quoted Ma as saying that restaurant staff had told him: “If you are worried about the baby, then we’ll give you 20,000 yuan ($3,000 US) to abort it.” Ma said the restaurant had offered compensation of 5,000 yuan ($729 U. S.), a sum he was prepared to negotiate after his wife had completed a hospital check-up.

On Sunday, the Market Supervision Bureau of Kuiwen district, Weifang, confirmed on its official WeChat account that it had received a complaint about a rat in hotpot soup on Friday. The bureau shut down the restaurant temporarily while it improves its procedures.

Meanwhile, Jiangsu Television reported that last Tuesday a woman from Nantong, Jiangsu province, suspected there were maggots in her hotpot at an unnamed restaurant. The woman said she was halfway through her dinner when she found quite a few white worms in the soup. She immediately called restaurant staff who told her they were high protein and swallowed a worm to show her.

Article includes video of rat
https://www.scmp.com/news/china/society/article/2163524/rat-hotpot-shocks-pregnant-woman-shuts-down-restaurant-eastern