Compiled by RAHIMY RAHIM, C.ARUNO and R. ARAVINTHAN
A SHOP selling porridge in Guangzhou, China, has been closed down for now after a worker was caught using a broom to clean the woks and walls, China Press reported.
Photos have emerged, showing a staff member scrubbing one of the woks with a large broom.
Just 15 minutes later, he was seen using the wok as a pail and putting the broom in it to clean the kitchen wall.
A diner, known only as Li, witnessed the incident and described it as disgusting.
“After seeing it with my own eyes, I just couldn’t get over it,” he said.
The Yuexiu district market supervision bureau confirmed the case, stating that the restaurant was being investigated for violating food safety operating standards.
The outlet has since been temporarily closed to undertake corrective measures.
> Scammers are pretending to be representatives of a Chinese temple and offering fortune-telling services to con unsuspecting devotees, China Press reported.
Since April, three Facebook pages have been using photos and videos taken at the Kuala Lumpur Guan Di Temple to promote online divination services.
The temple management got wind of it when devotees started questioning if the online services were legitimate.
This prompted the Selangor And Federal Territory Kwong Siew Association to lodge a police report.
According to the temple management, they had never ever worked with outsiders to provide fortune-telling or feng shui services.
Instead, they conduct only prayers, kau chim (fortune stick divination), blessing ceremonies and celebrations for the deity Guan Di.
(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.)
