what is the standard protocol here for getting a bug served up in your meal from a restaurant?
i just went to a restaurant. ordered 3 things. the 3rd thing had a freaking roach looking thing underneath it. i was pretty WTF so i just called them and they got rid of it.
they came back a few minutes later and said i could have a free dessert. after asking if i still need to pay for the offending food they said ok i could have that taken off. but still had to pay for the rest. well at this point i was pissed so i said i dont wanna pay for anything and they were like ok fine you dont need to.
the food was also 20 minutes late so the staff are obviously crap. but still, is this normal service after sending out a bug, expecting the customer to still pay for the damn thing? i donât expect service like back home but i was still pretty shocked and pissed off about this.
Depends on the place and the price point, but what I usually see is they replace the offending dish and itâs on the house. If itâs a slop shop, theyâll replace the dish and you still pay for it. If itâs some place with a high class reputation you may get a few extra free dishes as well, but probably not a free meal. Thereâs gonna be bugs in your foodâŚitâs just a matter of how many you actually notice.
it wasnât some fly or ant or one of those small caterpillar things that didnât get properly washed off the veg. it was some cockroach type thing. you couldnât miss it, unless you are the chef obviously.
Yeah, I was thinking cockroaches, like the small ones. But if itâs a giant winged roach, then all bets are off. That should get you a free meal for sureâŚalthough you probably wouldnât want to eat anything they served you at that point.
âBugâ and âinsectâ are basically synonymous, though a bug could be a worm or something not quite an insect. âBugâ is used a lot more in informal contexts. No one would say âThereâs an insect in my food!â (in my neck of the woods anyway.)
North Americans are more likely to use the word âbugâ than âinsectâ.
Brits will usually try and say what type of insect theyâve found in their food (e.g. beetle, fly, cockroachâŚ)
yea because this is so improbable in taiwan right? dude i was not in the mood to take an instagram food pic i was disgusted, i didnât want to look at it. i just wanted to get out of there.
and basically i was after hearing about others experience to see what was the normal way of that being dealt with here.
So I guess they didnât charge you for the extra protein? just kidding. It can happen to the best of us. Their reaction sounds as if this is a common occurrence for them.
I was walking by a tofu shop late at night that sells a ton of tofu during the day. They had their wooden molds outside and there will so many giant roaches crawling over it. I cook for myself more and more these days, and Iâm very critical of how the restaurant is maintained.
For people who are more particular with their terminology, I would say âbugâ is the go-to for situations where it hasnât yet been established whether the creature in question actually is an insect, or in fact an arachnid, crustacean, or, heaven forbid, a dreaded myriapod.
Timing⌠went to vegterian pientang and looking for place to seat then suddenly a roach wondering on the floor⌠wanted to step on it but I realized Iâm at buddhist pientang
Canât step on it ⌠they will point on me why murdering the roach.
Oh man, those small German cockroaches in food (or even bubble-tea) are the worst. Itâs happened to me a couple times. And since itâs Taiwan and whatâs even the point of complaining, I just leave it and walk out. All theyâd do is smile and replace your cockroach rice with some other bowl of rice that may or may not also have had cockroaches in it at some point.
As for bugs in general, I did voluntarily eat some fried crickets at a night market recently. Tasted like crunchy pork skin and the soy sauce it was seasoned with. Wouldnât get it again, but it was fine. Something about cockroaches though. Canât do that.
I was chopping up lettuce I bought at Carrefour, and found a sleeping caterpillar.
I donât really trust the veg I get from Carrefour, or I Ke Lai, or Quan Lien. Wellcome seems to do OK. And there is a giant farmers market in Hsinchu CityâŚwhat was the question?
I have never had a problem returning food in restaurants. Usually Laoban will take care of it. I must look so horribly pathetic and helpless, I have never had a problem with anyone when I need to return food, really.
how big was it? i find those small ones in broccoli a lot. local thinking is that it means the food isnât loaded with chemicals.
LOL at pientang. poontang?
i saw a roach nonchalantly walking across a dou jiang restaurant once, no fucks were given by the staff. getting served one was worse though i have to admit, even if it was small. btw the restaurant was a japanese chain so its not like it was some dirty food vendor.
