Is this China’s unluckiest diner? She ‘found a sanitary pad in her hotpot’ … twice in the space of two days
Shenzhen woman asks Haidilao for US$145,000 compensation, then claims the same thing happened in a different restaurant 24 hours later
A woman claiming she found a sanitary pad in her restaurant meal has seen her story come under scrutiny after it emerged she made the same complaint in a different eatery the following night.
The woman, surnamed Ni, demanded a million yuan (US$145,600) from hotpot chain Haidilao after pulling a paper object that she described as a sanitary towel out of her pot on Friday night.
The manager of the outlet in Shenzhen, which borders Hong Kong, told her the paper was probably the wrapping from the meat.
But Ni dismissed the suggestion, posting footage of the object next to the restaurant’s wrapping paper online saying “you can see this is a sanitary pad”, and demanded compensation.
She returned to the branch the next day for further discussions with the management. Southern Metropolis Daily reported that at some point in her discussions with the restaurant she and her companion had become so enraged that they started busting up furniture, prompting the Haidilao staff to call the police.