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NYC Koreatown Restaurant Shut Down for Rats (ft. Tesh Rajan)

#rat#rats#soup#restaurant#yorkcity
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0:00 damn you can stay open with the sea not New York baby even out here dude there's a couple seed restaurants um but C is for clean Clorox only C is passing [Music] there was a New York City Korea Town restaurant that was shut down after very interesting menu option what I'll say it dog everyone say it come on let's everyone on the count of three just pick your stereotypical animal it's either dog or now they're having an issue with live octopus okay so that's your guess what's your guess you said Koreatown dog New York City Koreatown New York City Korea time oh New York oh never mind rats rats

0:50 that's a good guess cannoli a bad cannoli bro rats it's rats do that's dude rats yeah but aren't the rats massive out there ever seen have you ever heard of the Rat King yeah from Ninja Turtles no no that's Splinter wait there's a rat king too from the from the sewer she's a villain will you talk don't Gaslight me you got sliding me childhood is he in the second one or the first he's a white guy he's in the cartoon yeah covered in bandages free range called rat dude so have you ever you heard the ████ yeah dude I'm from New York bro oh yeah so what's the Rat King is like all the rats in the subway can't uh they can't move because it's dark so all their tails intertwine and then they start fusing together oh so then they have to move as like one unit and if

1:41 they don't they die because they can't escape and now obviously there's like urban legends of this massive right right like this rat the Terminator it's kind of tight but they know this because they can find skeletons well now that we're up to speed on the Rat King uh no so there's a couple right there ordering from this restaurant in Koreatown they want spicy beef soup dish and when they get it the um the um there's a rat tail dangling dead rat or in the middle of it oh but is it is it like what they intended or was it no no they intended not when they intended oh so the the rat got in the soup wait who brought it out they didn't see a big rat

2:32 in the soup oh I saw this let me see can I see oh dude you can't hide that bro that's gross I don't know what I'm looking at that is a full it's a full it's just it's like cooked I mean rats getting into soup is kind of a global problem it is you know that happens but not in America dude dude Ratatouille failed man I know you're supposed to rain again that should be ████ illegal yeah now happened to Jason Cheney's soup remember when he was at that Military Academy who wants Burgers maybe the food is really good yeah this might be worth it I mean it went in there because obviously trying to eat and then it was like ████ it's hot I'm done it was apparently so not good that not even eating it it left the couple disgusted violently sick causing them to vomit and seek medical

3:23 attention they also claimed to suffer from severe serious permanent injuries and accused the business of negligent infliction of emotional sounds like some New York Sue ████ yeah I'm gonna say what were their permanent injuries I get being like ah ████ there's a rat in our soup this is ████ up emotional Man by the way as of Thursday afternoon this place was called gam milk has a c rating on the on that's it oh yeah it had a c even prior to that oh it's pretty bad though bad rap dude that's crazy a c means like not only do you got rats you got snakes you got bats you got everything so cause like you can get a B if you're like your manager isn't there when the health inspector comes but if there's a c that means the manager isn't watching that's gross failure to protect food from potential source of contamination the presence of Filth flies or food yeah use sewage associated

4:14 with frsa files or flies flies I always thought when you got to see that you were you had to be forced to like close and fix the problem I don't know damn you could stay open with the sea not New York baby even out here dude there's a couple sea restaurants um but C is for clean Clorox only oh dude that made my stomach hurt so so what's this restaurant yeah how's retaliated yes they say they reviewed security footage couldn't find any problems when we transferred the soup we served it four times with a ladle while the staff washed it with their eyes if there was a mouse that big there's no way we would have missed it oh so they threw it in there the plot thickens so does the soup they say that this person ordered food with ubereats and if a rat came out it could

5:04 be argued as evidence saying look at this when they came to our store but we didn't see anything so how can we know that you guys didn't put the rat in there and now you're claiming emotional distress and all this ████ all this legalese that they're using to set up a lawsuit potentially wait oh so it's ubereats they had it at home yeah oh ████ I thought it sounds a little to me sounds a little fishy a little bit apparently the um the restaurant also did a little bit of digging about this particular couple and they found out that they're ████ oh they did the Chili's thing they're just ████ because I'll be good if they they had a string of lawsuits against restaurants that had rats they maybe they were the Wendy's people right didn't someone find us a finger and a Wendy salad not too long ago oh recently it was like 20 years ago I remember that was two weeks

5:55 ago it was like 20 weeks ago really yeah you wouldn't like find a mouse or a finger it was a finger finger one was like 20 years ago that was the chili that was like the the store maybe a jack-in-the-box almost completely get taken out because of mad cow disease or some ████ with the burgers but that's different that's just that's a protein and it was real that was real too because I didn't grow up eating Jack in the Box none of us did and I but I remember the commercials and stuff until later on past high school they came back because then they had Jack as a mascot they didn't have that growing up yeah that was their way of repairing the damage from the Mad Cow making Jack a stoner but have you seen any any Jack in the Box stores back then I don't remember yeah we had one in Downey right by my house but we weren't eating it because my parents told me that you'll die from eating the burger I didn't hear any of that because people straight up died bro dude Chipotle had a similar

6:46 thing but with it was called the lettuce lettuce yeah oh yeah serious I was a I was thinking about being a shareholder back then so I was like oh God I stayed away from that one one of my one of my friends got the sick from Chipotle I had to go to the hospital they ran all the tests and then finally they were like holy ████ you got E coli from Chipotle oh my God and he's like was he able to like get any money I don't I don't think so damn really I don't I just don't think he liked it I don't think he cared so he was like I'm out of the hospital the restaurant went on to claim that the couple had also b██████ about flies on another Yelp review at another restaurant in Koreatown and um also they have been accused of trying to bribe their way out of this like they offered a couple five grand as what has leaked out but the restaurant says we

7:36 never offered them five grand wow I hate Korean restaurants or what I actually kind of believe that I don't feel like Asian restaurants would bribe you to yeah that's weird I feel like that wouldn't happen Oh They'll bite you to death you ordered the wrong ████ ████ yeah yeah yeah this is your fault you'll be like you pay us five thousand dollars but we don't we don't know what's true yet though right I could see like a very rich restaurant wanting to bribe you nothing on the record but if they already have a c dude you can't threaten Asian restaurants with like bad reviews no they'll be like so well have you seen the someone online I saw it was perfect a three and a half star review for Asian restaurants is the golden Zone because they're like the food is excellent the service sucks ah no the food is always gonna rock because all of these people go and it gets a three and a half because the service is zero but the food

8:26 is five yeah that makes sense but could you go to Five Star plays it's like oh the service is good but you know the food is okay and I'm like well what the ████ are you doing food box is all you should buy like listen if you go in there I would say it's about Indian restaurant if you go in there and the waiter gives you 45 minutes to eat and say get the ████ out that means food's good yeah because they have high turnovers they're like get the ████ out hurry up I got more they need to move that yeah stop having conversations yes go to the Boba shop next door I like it I like the idea that when um it's like 8 30 at night and they want you to leave so they start putting chairs upside down around oh yeah but that's classic it's like not close till 11. yeah love is like when you as an Indian person in an Indian restaurant when they do ████ like that I'm like you do know that I know these tricks right so I don't give a ████ we're riding this thing till closing time 11 o'clock I'm here till 1101. Health Inspectors reportedly found droppings at

9:16 the restaurant oh um the restaurant is currently closed evidence um there's a close sign in front of the door uh the business also allegedly failed to store food at the correct temperature lack the train supervisor and has been operating without proper permits that's why I got it and nobody knows can they check if it's uh it's one of those pet rats or like you can buy this rat or if it's a New York rat like can you tell like DNA testing yeah they're gonna do a 23andMe on the rack if it has a caller then you know it would be pretty good evidence if they found that it was caught from some other trap method and then it had like visible adhesive you know from like a wrap I don't think they did an autopsy on the rat was it yeah does it actually have the uh Korean soup they've drowned in a Korean soup oh yeah or yeah was it killed some so here's the real was it

10:06 seasoned if it was seasoned it if it wasn't seasoned these ████ yeah you gotta taste the rat they planted it they planted the wrap you know if it's an ingredient it's seasoned it's hard to think that they would miss that though it's just so ████ big but yeah and if they're doing a ladle yeah like has the skin on mm-hmm it's a full right what did this The Furs come off if it was the whole pot would be ████ up they don't understand this I think it was planted I think it's planted because if it was really in the soup all day that's braise baby it's braised it would be tender it would be but we don't know that it's not braids we just saw a picture of it and we're just no but to that point the first should be coming off like Chicago used to do chickens what kind of Stew is it this is kimchi kimchi Stu it was red but when you put like a whole thing in like a whole chicken or whatever and you boil it long enough it it breaks breaks apart yeah with the slightest touch it falls

10:58 apart and rats they're they're pretty you know they're weak they could break apart they could break apart this guy's braised a rat before we need a slow boil a rat and see and like also do they use an instapot that might increase the time it is true though that when you're working in a restaurant and everything's like motor skill like you kind of it's automatic like I could see someone missing a rat you would have felt you care about your business it's pretty heavy so put it in a plastic container you put a ████ yeah that's the thing it's going in it's going into a to-go container I guess if they have a large vat of whatever they're making it's in there but you're like it doesn't fit the ladle yeah it doesn't go clean bro the biggest ladles are like this all it takes is one employee that really doesn't give a ████ that's true you know but if they gotta see they probably don't have money to hire other employees it's probably a mom and pop shop or maybe it's their ████

11:48 ass son that doesn't care the classic mistake yeah dude I mean don't hire your family I don't know maybe you just have to look at the rate of like how often are these things ended up being fake versus when they're really especially also what are the complaints on the restaurant themselves if this is the first time of some massive incident yeah High chance it's a little too spot-on for a New York restaurant to have a whole rat in there like because you would expect it to happen more often right right it's too stereotypical like if you were expecting rat to come into food it's coming from a New York City restaurant because there's rats everywhere yeah but like that's City living but it's almost like it's it's almost even worse that it would happen because you live in a place where you should expect maybe there might be a rat around so you'd be more conscious about it maybe more conscious it would have been better if it was a pigeon because you could eat it oh yeah you're right yeah you're right

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