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Teens who urinated in soup must pay $300k

Rob Beschizza
Sep 17, 2025
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Hot pot spicy beef. Image: Shutterstock

Those trying the hotpot at a Shanghai branch of chain restaurant Haidilao may have noticed an unusual piquant note to the flavor on a February day earlier this year: two teenagers had urinated in the soup. Authorities stress there is no suggestion anyone actually consumed the extra-spicy broth, but those responsibl…

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