Restaurant owner says YouTuber ‘scarier than coronavirus’ after bad review shuts down outlet


HayanTree in his apology video to a business owner after his viral review video forced the business to shut down. — Screengrab from YouTube

A restaurant owner in South Korea has been forced to shut down his business after a YouTuber posted a bad review which went viral.

According to a report in Korean Herald, YouTuber HayanTree raised suspicions that the restaurant in question may have reused its food after finding grains of rice in a refilled dish of marinated crab. The restaurant is known for serving all-you-can-eat crab marinated in soy sauce, a traditional Korean food.

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