NZ restaurant caught using 'pet food' in one of its meals
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NZ restaurant caught using 'pet food' in one of its meals

They will only make the dish for her family and not customers.

A Chinese restaurant has admitted to using "pet food" in one of its meals.

A post to a community Facebook page on Tuesday showed a pile of boxes outside The Hong Kong restaurant in Invercargill - a box of chicken feet was labelled: "pet food only. Not fit for human consumption".

Sickened locals commented on the post calling it "disgusting" and "rank".

The owner of the restaurant says the chicken feet are used in a popular Chinese meal tuo gu ji zhua - which she only sells to customers who ask for it.

NZ restaurant caught using 'pet food' in one of its meals

"In Invercargill there aren't too many Chinese shops, and they really want to have this and tell us to get them if we can," owner Lisa Wang told Otago Daily Times.

Invercargill City Council senior environmental health officer Ann Thompson visited the restaurant on Thursday. Thompson was told the feet were not being sold, only consumed by the owners.

"We reminded the operator that as per their food plan, the only food that should be stored and prepared on site is food which is for sale to customers," she told Otago Daily Times.

Wang said she believed even if customers knew where the meat had come from, they would still eat it.

She says from now on she will only make the dish for her family and not customers.

RIP family members.