Haidilao offered compensation to more than 4,000 customers because of the teens’ reckless stunt. - PHOTO ILLUSTRATION: UNSPLASH
BEIJING: A court in China has ordered two teenagers to pay more than 2.2 million yuan (US$308,275) for peeing into a simmering pot of broth at a popular hotpot restaurant earlier in 2025.
The incident happened in February at the Shanghai branch of Haidilao, China’s largest hotpot chain.
