Posted on 07/01/2022 1:23:39 PM PDT by nickcarraway
(Left) The fishing hook that was found lodged in the fish's head. (Right) A receipt for the meal. Facebook/Lemon Mii
While having dinner at a restaurant, one Malaysian family found something fishy in their food.
A woman took to Facebook on June 22 to detail her family's dreadful experience at a fish head curry restaurant in Kuala Lumpur.
They had ordered a large serving of curry fish head to share, but while tucking into their meal, her father discovered a fishing hook lodged in the fish head.
Facebook user Lemon Mii uploaded a video of his plate showing the fishing hook, as well as the receipt from the meal. She also tagged the restaurant's Facebook page.
"Can you believe it? Luckily my father didn't put the whole thing in his mouth," she wrote.
The woman then called for a waiter, who informed her it was a careless mistake made by the kitchen.
Although she was not too pleased with the waiter's explanation, what the boss said truly baffled her.
According to her, the boss of the restaurant apparently said: "It's none of our business, it's the supplier's problem."
The woman wrote: "At first, you said it was the kitchen's problem, now it's the supplier's issue? I really feel bad for the supplier".
To make matters worse, the eatery only gave her a RM0.60 (S$0.20) discount on her RM298.60 bill. However, it is unclear if the discount was related to her complaint.
Netizens agreed with the diner, and criticised the boss for being "insincere" for the way he handled the issue.
‘Such a big fishing hook, the boss didn't even apologise or waive the bill, he did nothing. It feels very insincere.' PHOT: Screengrab/Facebook
'You can send this to the health ministry to complain. There's no need to say anything more to [the boss]. If [your father] really swallowed the fishing hook, who is going to take responsibility?' PHOTO: Screengrab/Facebook Several similar incidents of diners finding fish hooks in their food have been reported over the years.
In 2015, a man in Sichuan, China also discovered a fishing hook attached to a piece of string in the middle of his fish dish, reported the Daily Mail.
Alarmed by the discovery, he alerted the waiter who simply told him to "take it out".
The boss of the restaurant also told him: "That's just normal. Those hooks were used to catch the wild fish. Sometimes there are way too many hooks for the chefs to see them."
That same year, a woman in New York filed a lawsuit after she found a fishing hook in the fish dish she ordered at a restaurant, reported Business Insider.
The woman, Aliona Russo, had chewed on the piece of fish before realising there was a metal hook, which gave her several cuts on her tongue.
According to her lawyer, the restaurant apologised profusely and waived her bill.
(Apologies to Rodney Dangerfield)
Stuff happens.
As a business traveler, I eat out a lot. A year of or so ago I found some foreign object in my food. I don’t remember what it was but it was also a supplier deal. I don’t expect the cook to inspect every bit of food.
I don’t ask but the restaurant did comp the meal.
Oh come on. They didn’t even bill you for the hook. Consider it a bonus. /s
Don’t sit at a Table 11 in KL.
I sell you fish head soup, not fish head with hook soup.
Pay me for fish hook.
Actually I would be impressed that this was a fish caught the old fashioned way instead of by nets in a Chinese fish farm.
So they found a fish hook and then ate everything on the plate?
What do they think they catch them with?
Maybe it was proof that the fish was freshly caught......or something else.
Looks like the fish hook still had part of the worm on it ... should have charged extra for the extra protein.
It’s none of our business what we serve in our food for payment 🤪
After checking out exchange rates, it appears the fish head is $20. For that kind of money, I assume this isn’t the size of an anchovy. At the risk of sounding ignorant, how do you eat a (presumably) fist-sized or bigger fish head that is mostly bone? Do they fry it to the point that the bones are crispy as a potato chip, assuming that’s possible?
The customer should have had relief that the fish was Fair Caught and not from a evil factory trawler.
That’s one way for a restaurant to get their customers hooked in their establishment. 😋
Fish heads, fish heads, roly-poly fish heads. Eat them up, yum!
Can’t tell from the photo, but looks like they ate a good bit of their meal (if not all of it) before complaining?
Ever see the movie “waiting”? There is a scene where the camera moves across the dining room during the dinner rush catching parts of various conversations.... one of them is the manager talking to a customer “Mam, I am not arguing your steak was overcooked, but did you have to eat the whole thing before you complained?”.....
I think of this every time I see someone complain about something that’s really a minor issue, especially at a lower end or family type restaurant.
I get it if you are paying a fortune for high end food, small details matter... that’s exactly WHY you are paying them so much for the food, but when you are at the bag and feed, and you make a mountain out of minor issues, I am laughing on the inside at you while you do it.
Roly poly fish heads, eat them up yum!
“So they found a fish hook and then ate everything on the plate?”
I guess it tasted good.
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