On the evening of April 12, a social network account posted an article accusing “Gogi House grilled hot pot restaurant (Giang Van Minh branch, Ba Dinh district, Hanoi) of serving “grilled meat with flukes”.
< p>According to the shared article, the customer discovered an object believed to be a tapeworm crawling out of a piece of meat and quickly informed the staff and asked for an explanation.
“However, the staff insisted that “That’s meat tendons, not flukes” quoted the content of the post. The incident then spread throughout social networking forums.
Talk with Dan Tri< /em> On April 13, representative of Gogi House hot pot restaurant denied the above information. This person said that the image the customer saw was “not a fluke but an arterial tendon in the beef”.
“The restaurant slices the beef to a standard of 1.5cm so that when grilled, it will be sure to be tender. The meat is soft and sweet. Therefore, the chef only removes the veins and blood vessels on the surface of the meat, not in each fiber,” the restaurant representative explained.
This also explains when customers grill. meat on the blister, there is an elastic reaction between the tendon tissue and the heat, creating a movement that is not “a crawling fluke” as reported on social networks.
“We have explained to the customer “The store also sent that day’s batch of meat for testing to confirm that it was not a fluke or parasite,” said a representative of Gogi House.
Earlier in 2021, a customer dined at Gogi House, Trang branch. Tien Plaza also discovered “something like a tapeworm” in beef.
The restaurant sent samples to the Institute of Ecology and Biological Resources (under the Vietnam Academy of Science and Technology). ) to test the results “the specimen is not a parasite but a natural component of meat”.
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