Two teenagers have been detained for urinating in a hotpot dish at a well-known restaurant chain outlet in Shanghai then posting footage of their drunken act online.
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Video footage of two men standing on a dining table while peeing into a hotpot soup in a private dining room in a Haidilao shop has triggered public outrage and concerns over food safety.
The chain has more than 1,300 branches across China.
The eatery in the video reported the case to the authorities, and on March 8, Shanghai police announced that they had detained two 17-year-old migrant workers in connection with the incident.
The police said they urninated in the hotpot after getting drunk on February 24, and one of them filmed it and posted the video online.
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Haidilao said the shop involved had changed all its cooking utensils and was thoroughly cleaning.