A 23-year-old woman allegedly found what is suspected to be fly eggs inside her food while dining at a Japanese eatery in Yishun.
The woman was having a dinner with her boyfriend at the Japanese restaurant on 18 April when she found what appeared to be fly eggs inside her kimchi.
She told Shin Min Daily News that she was at the BBQ Tori Shokudo on the 2nd level of Northpoint City in Yishun having dinner, when she noticed the alleged fly eggs after finishing a piece of kimchi.
Her boyfriend then told the manager of the restaurant about it and the manager then brought the dish back into the kitchen to replace it with a new one.
However, the couple couldn’t eat the new dish because they were worried that it would still have the fly eggs inside, and they then paid for their food and left the premises.
The 36-year-old restaurant manager responded to the incident and said that when she brought the plate of kimchi back into the kitchen, the chef had allegedly told her that the “fly eggs” were part of the cabbage roots and that it was edible and commonly seen.
The manager said that when she emerged from the kitchen and went back to the couple’s table, they had already paid their bill and left.
She said that as a result, she didn’t have the chance to explain the situation to them.
Furthermore, she added, the kimchi was provided to the Japanese restaurant by the suppliers and the outlet was only responsible for cutting the food.
Other similar cases of creepy crawlies and food
Earlier this week, a woman in Singapore bought a packet of Cai Png from a coffee shop in Bedok and found what appeared to be a curled up dead caterpillar inside her food, nestled among the potatoes, vegetables and rice.
In another separate case, a group of diners at 18 Chefs had maggots raining down from the aircon vent above them and into their food and table.