Posted on 03/13/2025 7:22:43 AM PDT by BenLurkin
China's biggest hotpot chain Haidilao has offered to compensate more than 4,000 diners who visited one of its Shanghai branches, where two teens urinated into their hotpot broth.
A video of the boys peeing into their broth pot while dining in a private room was widely shared online last month. It is not clear who might have filmed the incident.
Police said the 17-year-olds, who were drunk at the time, were detained soon after the incident.
There is no suggestion anyone consumed the affected broth. Haidilao has apologised to customers, saying it has replaced all hotpot equipment and dining utensils, as well as disinfecting other crockery and utensils.
The incident happened late in February, though the company's management only found out about it days later, after videos circulated on social media.
Haidilao said the staff on duty at the time had failed to stop the teens.
It took another week to find out which outlet it was, the company said, as it has dozens of outlets in the city.
Diners in Haidilao use their own personal hotpot equipment to cook their food, and broths are not re-used again for other customers. However, it is unclear in this case if the hotpot in question was thoroughly cleaned and disinfected before it was used by the next customer.
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Hey, Yogi! It ISN’T the usual suspects this time!
Madonna says her urine is sterile, so it’s too bad she didn’t do this.
And this was in China, by the way.
Two common stories make me wonder about the psychology of the people doing something, one is this, the sick impulse to spread ones body fluids to strangers, and the other is why so many male hazing acts involve playing with another male’s anus.
So I’ve got something in common with Madonna?!?
Teenagers were detained. Probably never to be seen or heard again, making sneakers somewhere. Here they would somehow twist the first amendment and be local heroes. After all someone made “art work” out of crap.
Teenagers, boys, drunk, do something wildly inappropriate.
Let me google and see if this has ever been done before.
China has idiot teens?.........................
I have a feeling the 17 year old Chinese punks were a little more severely punished than our 17 year old punks would be. Ours would likely get off without even a reprimand. The Chinese ones were lucky if their lives were spared.
must have recently watched “war of the Roses”.
It does have a little *wang* to it.
Why not coupons for more?
At least it wasn’t glasses of Coke….
In China, teens who do this become freeze dried and laminated human body displays
Well there's a first for a Chinese restaurant.
This really pisses me off.
Why? Were they part of a right wing hate group?
Don’t forget survival guru Bear Grylls who drinks his urine in situations where water isn’t available.
Then again, he’s a Brit, so draw your own conclusions.
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