A Hong Kong gentleman named Holman Lau got pretty upset three months ago when he discovered a fly in his bowl of Vietnam beef soup noodles, the South China Morning Post reports today.
The incident happened at the 5-star China Hotel in Guangzhou. A 5-star fly is still a fly of course. Mr Lau demanded an apology from hotel staff and compensation of any medical costs should the-fly-in-the-soup make him ill.
The problem is restaurant waiters have seen these kind of incidents all too often. Who knows? Maybe some crooks are running around with a packet of death flies in their pockets to drop them in the soup and claim compensation? That also happens…
Anyway, Lau go not apology, took a picture of the offending soup with his mobile and went to court claiming 3,466 yuan in compensation. But the court of first instance only granted him 88 yuan because he missed his bus back to Hong Kong following the incident. Still the hotel didn’t pay up and didn’t apologize.
Come back soon for episode two at the Guangzhou Intermediate People’s Court.
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