Eat & Drink
Hot Chocolate, With a Side of Cockroach?
Does Destiny Tea & Cafe have a cockroach problem? According to Ryerson student Joram Muzones it does. Apparently, Muzones and some friends were at the popular Markham hangout on Sunday when some chunks surfaced in her hot chocolate. According to Muzones:
So I get the hot chocolate, no problems there drink looks good, took a few sips, maybe a good one inch worth off the drink and I decided to put some sugar into the drink and I started stirring. As I stirred the drink I saw something in it and I thought it was chocolate chunks. When the thing finally surfaced what I saw was 2 BIG cockroaches, and a couple of legs floating around. *gags*
Needless to say, Muzones didn't finish the drink. But apparently her problems didn't end there. What now has her equally upset is the response from staff (or lack thereof) in dealing with the issue. Her friend Jason explains the whole situation and has posted more photos in a forum thread here. Meanwhile, Muzones has created a Facebook Group which at the time of this post has more than 800 members.
According to DineSafe, Destiny Tea & Cafe has a clean record. Anyone else ever have any problem there?
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No need to exaggerate!
Now here's the question, were the crawlers in the sugar or already in the hot chocolate? Cuz I can't see'em in the instant pakage I that's the case. But if it was homemade, at least we know they use natural ingredients.
I get that they are the first giaaaant tea house to house all the high school students, but come on, they have been abusing their powers ever since. I remember going there as a high school student with all my high school friends, back when they were just starting out because really, a gathering of 20 is too much for Ten Rens or 168 to handle. (This was before the glorious Go4Tea, the new Ten Rens or new Destiny north of Steeles, all of which are massive in space.)
Obviously the media should know as this restaurant doesn't understand they are accountable. This should be posted to Chowhound also:
http://chowhound.chow.com/boards/23
those are just some demoralized people who don't wanna work there in the first place and not professional either. all in all, does not worth going and reason why not going.
However, Tim, I would advice you to take this down for temp, because from various sources this blogto (creator) would also be getting sue if Destiny wants to, we would not like you to take any responsibility to legal issue unless you are willing to. Feel free to contact me via e-mail. Jason.
Look up the defences to defamation: truth of statements and fair comment. I'm assuming that Tim has based his article based upon supporting facts (pictures). If not, Jason's advice (of taking the article down) may be warranted.
my problem with destiny is the way they dealt with the situation, not so much with the cockroach.
these things happen and if they apologized and took the tab off the whole thing would have been blown over. but they not only treated the girl and called her immature and then tried to elevate the situation.
in civil court, they'd have to have the prove that either any of the facts the girl said were until true. using the fact that they have a clean record is not proof enough
If you're referring to a location in Markham or Richmond Hill you should check with York Region Public Health - http://tinyurl.com/5me6xx
Thanks for sharing this disgusting experience to others.
http://livintoronto.com/jonjai/viewtopic.php?t=9102&;postdays=0&postorder=asc&highlight=destiny&start=0
Call the Chinese media like SingTao or whoever. Destiny will be in so much shit after that.
Destiny's is already known for crap attitude and there have been many cases of cockroaches in Asian milk powder.
But none the less, that is DISGUSTING and Destiny's...I've lost all my happiness =( No more Destiny's 7$ cakes for me </3
Haha.
???? how did it get in da drink is still a mystery. Da mixer didn't catch 2 cockroachs. Da server didn't catch it and it floated after someone starts to drink it.
ummmmm
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