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bikeskata t1_jckfkbq wrote

Well shit. That's something you don't see every day.

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ManhattanRailfan t1_jckl7zj wrote

Replying to ricepalace (#2,253,573)

Yeah, for real. This doesn't even look like a rat. And I've been to Gammeeok a lot of times, it's on the second floor, for one thing, so rats are a bit less likely, and that soup looks mostly finished. How could a person eat that much without noticing?

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terryjohnson16 t1_jckmz0i wrote

I rather them be shut down and learn from their carelessness. Restaurants tend to not listen to customers complaints about food issues. But the DoH issues speaks volumes and should be a wakeup call to these restaurants.

Who knows how many other complaints they had prior to this encounter being made public.

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yuriydee t1_jckpl1a wrote

Damn thats nasty. Worst part is I think ive been there before couple of years ago.

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Kblack1101 t1_jckqmph wrote

“When we transferred the soup, we served it four times with a ladle while the staff watched it with their eyes,” Gammeeok stated. “If there was a mouse that big, there's no way I wouldn't have missed it.”

Yep - pretty much nailed it there.

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heresmyusername t1_jckssah wrote

"No New York City restaurant is authorized to have mice or rats on the menu..."

this was so strange to read

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PoopEmoji8618 t1_jcktqaw wrote

Wow that’s crazy that the couple also deleted a yelp review on another restaurant about flies. Not sure how Gammeeok found it if it was deleted but idk much about yelp.

Gammeeok also has video footage of them serving the soup with no rat. Makes it seem like the couple is the one at fault but interested to see how the story develops.

I personally have never been but I would hate to see a restaurant go down if this is in fact not true

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ukudancer t1_jckweed wrote

Sounds like a money-grab scam by the couple

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mowotlarx t1_jcl157d wrote

This is almost 100% of the time a money grab scam by the customers. I'm sorry, but given the track record of stories like this I have a hard time believing it.

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Mens-pocky46 t1_jcl1wst wrote

On one hand it does seem like the couple is money-hungry, but on the other it says health inspectors did find rat droppings at the restaurant. I don't know who to believe

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SolitaryMarmot t1_jcl4eat wrote

I once got a giant roach stuck inside a tomato slice of a salad. I complained and they told me I made it up for money. I complained to DOH and they did an inspection that landed the place in temporary shut down. They re-opened but never recovered and the place closed like 3 months later.

Never eat at a place with a C rating though. Gross. This place should be shut down too.

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fattythrow2020 t1_jclbp2a wrote

Replying to mowotlarx (#2,254,618)

I’ve had that dish before (not there) and the rice comes separately. So they’re telling us that they poured out the thin, liquidy soup into a bowl, added in the rice, spooned it around and THEN noticed a mouse? Not to mention that the mouse does not look very waterlogged or bloated (like when animals wash up on the beach)? K.

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961402 t1_jcli0op wrote

Replying to SolitaryMarmot (#2,254,807)

Years ago someone posted a picture on this sub of a restaurant that had "BRUNCH" spelled out on individual pieces of paper with colorful letters in the window and you had to look somewhat close to notice that the "C" was the DOHMH rating

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awesomecytoplasm t1_jclkfed wrote

Replying to mowotlarx (#2,254,618)

Literally my first thought. People thought I was crazy for defending the restaurant in the Instagram comments but they literally transferred the contents of the takeout container to their own bowls. Like do yall not see the dark ass rodent as you poured??

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awesomecytoplasm t1_jclkmr8 wrote

I think the couple could be lying. Until there is evidence, let's not slander or partake in defamation. They have a cat that could've brought in dead rodents and planted it there to sue for money. The lied about the restaurant not giving them chopsticks when camera footage shows that they did. The woman also threw out the EVIDENCE (the rodent). Why throw out the evidence? They can send the rodent to a lab because if it were in the soup for a long time, they would find the soup inside the rodent. Social media is fake people!!!! No evidence no case.They transferred the soup in the takeout containers to their own bowls. There's no way they didn't look when pouring and a dark rodent would have stood right out. Instead they "discovered" it when nearly finished. Weird because when you eat with chopsticks or other utensils, you are poking around/touching/stirring your food. At least I do when I eat with chopsticks lol. I don't really believe them.

edit: Some of you bitter racist people need to stop with the racist comments!!!! This can happen in any other restaurant not just a Korean one.

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em349nw t1_jclkod2 wrote

if you listen to the dude in the video in a very subbuded tone "We found a rat in out soup" ?
if that happened to me I'd be screaming! sounds like a money scam.

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Southern-Ad-2328 t1_jclmf8x wrote

Replying to PoopEmoji8618 (#2,254,206)

Gammeok posted one video of a man putting soup in a container. There’s no proof that it is this particular soup. I find it very hard to believe the couple went to trouble of finding a rat, cooking it just to swindle some cash from a restaurant.

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doowapeedoo t1_jclqw5h wrote

A travesty to kimchi jiggae everywhere.

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KirbyxArt t1_jclqzp8 wrote

Yo its hard to get shut down by the DOH. Have you seen what violations a C warrants but they still open? The inspectors musta seen some egregious shit to close it down.

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ohwhatj t1_jcltt8x wrote

A couple of years ago my GF and I went a popular Pho place in Flushing. My GF was eating and all of a sudden she started screaming “there’s a roach in my Pho”. The couple next to us casually turns to us and say “ First time here?” And turns back to their food and kept on eating.

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oreosfly t1_jcluph3 wrote

Replying to awesomecytoplasm (#2,255,738)

> Some of you bitter racist people need to stop with the racist comments

Unfortunately some terrible people never let a crisis go to waste…

Nonetheless, the fact that a) this restaurant has a history of questionable food safety practices, and b) DOH’s follow up inspection found evidence of live rodents in the restaurant, it’s better to be safe than sorry and shutting the place down was the right move.

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MC-Sherm t1_jclybb4 wrote

Replying to KirbyxArt (#2,256,080)

I think when a viral photo of a rat in soup goes out you go to the inspection with intentions of a shutdown if things aren’t perfect. If I was this owner and I knew my kitchen was dirty, I would’ve started cleaning my restaurant as soon as this went viral

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mowotlarx t1_jcm55fk wrote

Replying to Southern-Ad-2328 (#2,255,836)

>I find it very hard to believe the couple went to trouble of finding a rat, cooking it just to swindle some cash from a restaurant.

Interesting because that is always how these rat/mouse in food stories end up.

Which is more likely? That a scammer pulled a common scam? Or that someone didn't notice they cooked a rat? Or spooned out a rat? We already know the answer.

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mowotlarx t1_jcm5be0 wrote

Replying to ProfessionalGreat240 (#2,255,579)

This story is the equivalent of one of those white grandpas in the south calling the news because some Antifa wrote "Black People Rule" on their garage. Or that lady who carved a B into her face and claimed a gang of Obama supporters robbed and assaulted her.

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bittoxic00 t1_jcm75ny wrote

The couple demanded $5000 then $25000. What chaser lawyer took this case on?

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spicytoastaficionado t1_jcm7aww wrote

It will be interesting to see how this develops.

I agree with the other comments that a restaurant worker not seeing a whole rat when ladling soup seems far-fetched.

Restaurant also making some bold claims on their IG page regarding the couple trying to extort them, while the couple claims that the restaurant attempted to bribe them into silence.

I suppose we'll wait and see how this develops.

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spicytoastaficionado t1_jcm7yb7 wrote

Replying to mowotlarx (#2,256,854)

>This story is the equivalent of one of those white grandpas in the south calling the news because some Antifa wrote "Black People Rule" on their garage.

Of all the racial graffiti hoaxes that have made the news in the past few years, most of them were not perpetuated by "white grandpas in the south" so it is weird you are using a fringe example to make your point.

If you don't believe me, just Google "graffiti race hoax" and you will find a common theme with the overwhelming majority of the suspects, and it isn't the perps being southern grandpas.

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fattythrow2020 t1_jcmkfw7 wrote

Replying to bittoxic00 (#2,256,962)

“Robert L. Astrachan, a lawyer from Carrion Accident & Injury Attorneys, representing Lucero-Lee and her husband, filed a lawsuit in the Supreme Court of the State of New York…”

Indeed ambulance chasers. The owner of the “firm” has a TikTok. Lmao

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Mens-pocky46 t1_jcmojdw wrote

Replying to mowotlarx (#2,256,818)

I didn't say it means they cooked the rat, but it does cast doubt on their press statement of being squeaky clean victims and that everything is okay with the restaurants safety. Btw rat droppings is more than just bad, it's grounds for getting shut down

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hoyunah t1_jcmoofp wrote

Replying to PvtHudson (#2,257,825)

That's the most damning thing to me. I was skeptical of the story mostly due to denial as this was a place I loved in college but after working in restaurant industry and how easy it is to game even an A rating, even a B grade means there is A LOT of problems

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ColdButts t1_jcmt4vi wrote

Replying to mowotlarx (#2,256,846)

The scam is so much more likely. Worked in a lot of gross restaurants with a lot of dumb people, but no one’s fucking dumb enough to actually let an animal fall into a boiling hot pot and not notice. Don’t you think it would splash? Don’t you think it would squeal? Cooks stir the soup before they ladle it out. They stare at the pot to do that. The kitchens have lights. I know this is all mindblowing. Rats or mice in the restaurant? Very likely, here in NYC. Mice are more likely overall, but I’ve seen rats too. Almost certainly cockroaches somewhere in every restaurant as well, even if only in small number and mostly unseen.

But, to answer your question: what is more likely? Well I’ve seen 0 animals in food in my time working in NYC and I’ve had countless clueless, cheap, bored, or outright scammy customers complaining about some shit that isn’t the restaurant’s fault or business. So idk how you managed to get all the yuppies upvoting your clueless armchair guess, but it’s wildly off base.

edit: didn't realize you actually shared my POV lol. Sorry, but what I said still stands for all the racists in here.

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DryGumby t1_jcn05of wrote

Replying to mowotlarx (#2,254,618)

I might've taken those odds if they didn't have a C rating. Even the dirtiest placest can manage a B. C rating restaurant food must be served straight from the trash. That said, there's a chance the customers did it for that reason.

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Crimsonwolf1445 t1_jcn14j4 wrote

Replying to mowotlarx (#2,256,854)

Most of the hate crime hoaxes dont have white “victims”

We had smollett who is black

That muslim girl who claimed she got junped by trump fanatics for wearing a hijab on a crowded nyc train… and then admitted she made that up to get away with breaking curfew.

Etc.

Although i do find the idea of a white grandpa writing “black people rule” on his shit and trying to claim a hate crime hysterical

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ummaycoc t1_jcn864m wrote

Is that better or worse than a live rat?

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Harsimaja t1_jcn9u8s wrote

Replying to Southern-Ad-2328 (#2,255,836)

Why do you find this hard to believe? This is one of the most famous and genuinely performed swindles out there. You think that planting a rat from some bag is a limit that people might go to for a lot of money?

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Jaylove2019 t1_jcnd5w6 wrote

Replying to ohwhatj (#2,256,243)

Eww. Me and my man went to this high star more than thousand yelpers & Google rave about this Flushing restaurant by Main Street- Shanghai You Garden. I sat down eating when a roach crossing our table. Another bigger roach was walking towards me from clear division between tables for Covid protection. My man attempted to take it out but in process it landed very close to my bag. I screamed and ran away from my table. Other customers already saw and heard my concern. No one seems to be bothered even my man. I told him I do not have appetite anymore and I’m not eating. He finished his food and enjoyed the crispy duck on bun just like the couple next to our table. 🤮🤮🤮🤮🤮🤮🤮

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Henrychinaskismom1 t1_jcnnqcg wrote

STFU and send it back. POS litigious twats. Rats happen. Sometimes

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DallasMarcie t1_jco2uvn wrote

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.

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DallasMarcie t1_jco3z99 wrote

Replying to Mens-pocky46 (#2,254,660)

The couple isn't money hungry. They're pretty well to do from well off families. Money is the least of their worries. Health is. No amount of money can pay for the many things you can possibly get from rats. Death included. Let that sink in.

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DallasMarcie t1_jco5boh wrote

Replying to Southern-Ad-2328 (#2,255,836)

A well to do couple from well off families I might add with prestigious careers. Ambulance chasers I think not. If you said thrill seekers that's more plausible but still highly doubtful. Plus wouldn't you sue if the risk to your life was insulted with a payoff? I think people are forgetting the health implications of this is literally deadly serious. Many people have died from leptospirosis from rats contaminating the lips of containers with pee or droppings (always wash soda cans or even any exposed lid). What more of a whole rat with the other things they carry inside their bodies like parasites. Those things are harder to kill with heat even. So yeah let that sink in and try not to treat it as a joke and see if you wouldn't go through the same thing when it does happen to you.

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OGPants t1_jco5ngl wrote

Replying to hoyunah (#2,257,935)

People underestimate how EASY it is to get an A grade. To get anything lower just means the restaurant owners either don't give a f or are extremely incompetent.

I also worked in food industry during high school and college.

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mowotlarx t1_jcoru4b wrote

Replying to DallasMarcie (#2,260,905)

>well to do couple from well off families

Literally nothing in any article about them mentions this. The wife is an "editor" for low circulation web magazines mostly with her name attached to poorly written ads pretending to be articles about The Best Mascara. With a quick Google search, I'm left more convinced this is a scam than before.

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fattythrow2020 t1_jcp0od6 wrote

Replying to DallasMarcie (#2,260,905)

A quick search shows that she’s a blogger (sorry, “editor”) in her 40s who probably makes like max 50-75k a year. How is that “well off” or prestigious? She’s a joke with nothing to lose. Lmao

Your entire post history is about this incident only. Bet they looked for restaurants with low grades and went for it. F off.

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fattythrow2020 t1_jcp2rts wrote

Replying to DallasMarcie (#2,260,801)

Why do you keep claiming that the couple is “well to do” and “prestigious”? Because that has zero to do with anything anyone’s saying and they really are not lmao

Does your lawyer know that you’re defending yourself in the middle of the night on Reddit of all place lol

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otdr11211 t1_jcq9q6u wrote

This restaurant has an "R" rating.

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[deleted] t1_jcqe11l wrote

NYC is so infested with roaches and rats i’m surprised this doesn’t happen more often

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-blourng- t1_jcrsyk6 wrote

The customers are most likely liars and scam artists.

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OasisRush t1_jcsl90f wrote

Our ancestors ate rodents like a restaurant meal

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MICKEY-MOUSES-DICK t1_jcx04m9 wrote

Replying to fattythrow2020 (#2,257,696)

Also something ain't right. So, they said they found it after eating half of the food and then vomited their food after discovery. But it was take-out... They couldn't see the rat in the clear take-out container? They didn't see it as they transferred the food into their bowl? You mean to tell me that they didn't notice it in their bowl as they were eating it?

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mrjackyliang t1_jd1rorl wrote

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.

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