Ele.me receives 120,000-yuan penalty ticket after state TV exposed dirtiest side of food ordering

By Hu Min | March 16, 2016, Wednesday |

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FOOD delivery website ele.me was fined 120,000 yuan (US$19,354) today by Shanghai's food safety watchdog for violating China's food safety law.

This came after a number of restaurants registered on the Shanghai-based website to provide food delivery service were exposed to be unlicensed and filthy with untrue information in a CCTV quality investigation program last night.

The Shanghai Food and Drug Administration said it would conduct a thorough investigation on the website's business while other punishments might ensue.

Online photographs of the Shisuda restaurant in Beijing showed a spotless stainless steel cooking stove. However, its kitchen turned out to be small and dark with oil stains everywhere, according to footage aired on the annual consumer rights program.

A woman is seen biting open a sausage and throwing it into fried rice which is then poured into a dirty lunch-box.

In addition, food ordered from five restaurants with different names and addresses turned out to be from the same place in Tongzhou.

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