Eunice Lucero-Lee posted a collection of images and movies of what seems to be a dead black rat floating within the soup she mentioned she and her husband had delivered Saturday from Gammeeok in Manhattan.
“We ordered sogogi gukbap, which is a sort of hearty Korean beef soup,” Lucero-Lee told NewsBreak by email.
The Submit contacted Lucero-Lee, a senior editor at Hearst, for remark.
She reported submitting a lawsuit towards the restaurant, which additionally has a location in Fort Lee, NJ.
“After looking for authorized counsel, my husband and I now be happy to share one thing that occurred to us over the weekend,” Lucero-Lee wrote this week on Instagram.
“We ordered in from a well known restaurant known as Gammeeok in Okay-City and located probably the most disgusting factor in our meals.”
She continued: “We’ve been going to this restaurant for a decade and are in any other case proud supporters of Asian delicacies and tradition. This incident is under no circumstances to gas race-based hate or prejudice, and I’ll have a problem with anybody who makes use of these posts to suit that narrative.”
Lucero-Lee mentioned the couple are sharing their claims to “unfold consciousness and hopefully be sure the proper individuals are held accountable.”
The couple claims they’ve filed a lawsuit towards Gammeeok. eunichiban/Instagram
She additionally acknowledged she contacted the NYC well being division. On its website, the company denotes a “C” ranking for the Manhattan location.
A Jan. 18 inspection revealed a number of alleged sanitary violations, together with a meals contact floor not correctly washed, rinsed and sanitized after every use; and meals, provides, and gear not shielded from a possible supply of contamination.
The Submit reached out to the well being division and Gammeeok for remark.
In a set of Instagram posts Wednesday, the restaurant mentioned the couple’s claims don’t “make sense.”
“We’re open 24 hours, and there are a minimum of 3 or 4 folks within the kitchen always,” the restaurant wrote. “As you may see within the video, it doesn’t make sense for a rat to keep away from folks and enter a pot on a scorching fireplace.”
Gammeeok added: “Once we transferred the soup, we served it 4 occasions with a ladle whereas the workers watched it with their eyes. If there was a mouse that large, there’s no means I wouldn’t have missed it. There’s additionally a video recording of the recording course of. We checked the entire course of of constructing the soup, however we couldn’t discover any issues.”
The restaurant alleges the couple wrote a Yelp review six years in the past about discovering “a big bug” in takeout soup.
“It’s a uncommon expertise to most individuals of their entire life,” Gammeeok wrote. “They take away the assessment now. Why?”