Seafood place wants to return money to customer

Compiled by LIEW JIA XIAN, C. ARUNO and R. ARAVINTHAN

A SEAFOOD restaurant in Kuala Lumpur has apologised for overcharging a customer RM35 and is looking to return the money to him, reported Sin Chew Daily.

In an online post on Thursday, Shou Lau Restaurant in Kepong said that there was a mix-up in the kitchen that resulted in the customer being given a small plate of prawns instead of a large one as ordered.

Worried that they might be fined for profiteering, the restaurant posted the incident online in the hope of finding the customer and returning the money.

When interviewed, the restaurant operator Li Guo Qiang said the customer had complained to his wife that the small plate of prawns was overpriced at RM80 but nevertheless paid the sum.

He added that the recent spate of customer complaints at restaurants in the country got him worried about being fined by the authorities for the mistake.

Li promised that the restaurant would be more careful in the future to prevent such incidents.

Shou Lau Restaurant has been in business for 13 years and relocated to its current location in Kepong two years ago.

The Domestic Trade and Consumer Affairs Ministry launched Ops Menu in November to prevent price manipulation and rigged scales at eateries.

> A Chinese Internet regulator has shut down more than 20,000 accounts of online influencers in China, claiming that they have misused their cyber clout to spread “wrong messages”, China Press reported.

According to the Cyberspace Administration of China (CAC), the influencers were identified as having insulted heroes and martyrs, disrupted racial harmony or been involved in tax evasion.

Other offences that warrant the deletion of accounts include spreading rumours, sharing pornographic materials as well as unethical business practices, it said.

The CAC has also ordered online platforms to take stern action against those who flout the law.

The above articles are compiled from the vernacular newspapers (Bahasa Malaysia, Chinese and Tamil dailies). As such, stories are grouped according to the respective language/medium. Where a paragraph begins with a >, it denotes a separate news item.