Lowly-paid woman staffer says her actions were ‘personal’ and she wanted to sell it for recycling; angry online observers express scepticism
A hotpot restaurant in China has gone viral amid allegations that it was cooking with used oil taken from a roadside rubbish bin.
On August 18, in Chongqing, southwestern China, a netizen posted a video showing a woman in her sixties, surnamed Zhang, apparently scooping used oil from a swill bin.
The footage showed the woman dressed in the uniform of a local hotpot restaurant. She was carrying a ladle and a plastic bucket.
When asked who had told her to collect the oil, the woman responded vaguely: “I just started working here.”
