It was just a routine visit to check the permit for the new Chinese restaurant located at 18 Nicolás Usera Street, called Chaoshan Beef Hotpot. A seemingly clean place and about whose services you can find reviews like this: “Very good menu, rich and also nutritious, fresh ingredients, the beef is cut to order”; “It’s very rare to find raw marinated shrimp, they’re super fresh and they don’t smell fishy at all”; or some that are also juicy, but with nuances: “Everything was great, the food was excellent, but a few cockroaches took away our appetite… The boss saw one and killed it with a handkerchief, but then two more came out… Despicable, to say the least What was hidden in the back room, and that’s what they serve there, was hundreds of. rotten food, expired for three years and even protected species.
The establishment has been open for a few months, always with a responsible declaration. But the first thing that the agents of the Citizen Services Office (OAC) of the Usera district general police station noticed was that they did not have civil liability insurance. It was 1:40 p.m. on September 26, and the papers showed that they had asked for a second floor to be opened, but had been refused.
However, at the end of a long sofa, by removing part of it, the municipal police found a hidden and recessed door through which they could access a mezzanine without a permit. They had turned a deaf ear to the ban and had installed a warehouse of horrors inside. A two-part metal staircase led to the burrow, punctuated by multiple boxes. On cardboard on the ground, they had dried plants which we still don’t know what they are, but which are served as vegetables.
There were tons of vacuum bags without labeling or any traceability, plus food. For example, many mushrooms, between 50 and 60 kilos, of which we do not know the variety and, even less, whether they are suitable for human consumption. The expiration date was 2021, three years ago.
There was also a chest freezer with mixed meat and fish without protection, duck meat with bits of frost, meatballs that they serve (one of the restaurant’s signature dishes) without any label. . In total, between 150 and 200 kilos in this refrigerator. , according to data ABC was able to access.
Entrance, main room and illegal warehouse of the restaurant inspected in Nicolás Usera, 18
They found large plastic envelopes received by parcels, from which the senders and recipients had been torn off, where they then vacuum-sealed the products.
There were stuffed bladders, rotten mussels that smelled bad and 600 specimens of sea cucumbers in deplorable condition, commonly known as sea cucumbers. This is a species protected by the Cites agreement, the owner of the restaurant is therefore accused, for the moment, of an alleged offense against fauna and flora. They smelled bad and were yellowish in color.
In the middle of the inspection, they discovered that the cook was throwing food from a refrigerator into the trash and thus attracted his attention. The material was sealed. However, this Monday, October 1, the agents returned to the establishment and a good part of the paralyzed material in the chest was no longer there and they had filled the hole: they had gotten rid of the vegetables, it is therefore probable that they will also accuse him of another crime against public health. What remains of what was seized is at the disposal of the Health Department of the Usera Council.
