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Hotpot chain compensates diners after teenagers urinate in soup
bbc ^ | 03/13/2025 | Kelly Ng

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.

(Excerpt) Read more at bbc.com ...


TOPICS: Food; Travel
KEYWORDS: amish; bellcurve; ccp; china; noneed2look; shanghai; teens; themagainyogi; youths
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1 posted on 03/13/2025 7:22:43 AM PDT by BenLurkin
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To: BenLurkin

Hey, Yogi! It ISN’T the usual suspects this time!


2 posted on 03/13/2025 7:25:13 AM PDT by ProtectOurFreedom (Democrats who say ‘no one is above the law’ won’t mind going to prison for the money they stole)
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To: BenLurkin

Madonna says her urine is sterile, so it’s too bad she didn’t do this.


3 posted on 03/13/2025 7:25:52 AM PDT by ConservativeMind (Trump: Befuddling Democrats, Republicans, and the Media for the benefit of the US and all mankind.)
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To: BenLurkin

And this was in China, by the way.


4 posted on 03/13/2025 7:27:04 AM PDT by No name given ( Anonymous is who you’ll know me as)
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To: BenLurkin

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.


5 posted on 03/13/2025 7:27:19 AM PDT by ansel12 ((NATO warrior under Reagan, and RA under Nixon, bemoaning the pro-Russians from Vietnam to Ukraine.))
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To: ConservativeMind

So I’ve got something in common with Madonna?!?


6 posted on 03/13/2025 7:28:02 AM PDT by 9YearLurker
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To: BenLurkin

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.


7 posted on 03/13/2025 7:30:56 AM PDT by Omnivore-Dan (Shut)
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To: BenLurkin

Teenagers, boys, drunk, do something wildly inappropriate.

Let me google and see if this has ever been done before.


8 posted on 03/13/2025 7:32:10 AM PDT by BBQToadRibs2
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To: BenLurkin

China has idiot teens?.........................


9 posted on 03/13/2025 7:32:28 AM PDT by Red Badger (Homeless veterans camp in the streets while illegals are put up in 5 Star hotels....................)
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To: BenLurkin

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.


10 posted on 03/13/2025 7:32:59 AM PDT by redfreedom (Happiness is shopping at Walmart and not hearing Spanish once!)
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To: BenLurkin
At least it wasn't the punch.


11 posted on 03/13/2025 7:34:00 AM PDT by HombreSecreto (The life of a repo man is always intense)
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To: BenLurkin

must have recently watched “war of the Roses”.


12 posted on 03/13/2025 7:34:04 AM PDT by Qwapisking ("The left will rue the day they cheated Trump out of the 2020 election forever" L.Star )
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To: HombreSecreto

It does have a little *wang* to it.


13 posted on 03/13/2025 7:39:44 AM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: BenLurkin

Why not coupons for more?


14 posted on 03/13/2025 7:42:27 AM PDT by T.B. Yoits
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To: BenLurkin

At least it wasn’t glasses of Coke….


15 posted on 03/13/2025 7:44:18 AM PDT by kaktuskid
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To: BenLurkin

In China, teens who do this become freeze dried and laminated human body displays


16 posted on 03/13/2025 7:44:23 AM PDT by Vaquero (Don't pick a fight with an old guy. If he is too old to fight, he'll just kill you. )
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...as well as disinfecting other crockery and utensils

Well there's a first for a Chinese restaurant.

17 posted on 03/13/2025 7:44:47 AM PDT by Tell It Right (1 Thessalonians 5:21 -- Put everything to the test, hold fast to that which is true.)
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To: BenLurkin

This really pisses me off.


18 posted on 03/13/2025 7:45:18 AM PDT by central_va (I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn...)
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To: BenLurkin
Police said the 17-year-olds, who were drunk at the time, were detained soon after the incident.

Why? Were they part of a right wing hate group?

19 posted on 03/13/2025 7:47:31 AM PDT by AndyJackson
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To: ConservativeMind

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.


20 posted on 03/13/2025 7:48:44 AM PDT by hoagy62 (Hail Trump! Trump won! By a lot!)
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