A popular seafood restaurant is under scrutiny after a video surfaced showing a chef disassembling a crab directly on a table rag, instead of using a cutting board.
A 60-second TikTok clip, comprising CCTV footage, captured the incident inside the kitchen of Mellben Seafood at Ang Mo Kio.
After the crab is cut up, it is passed to another chef for further preparation, while a third chef uses the same cloth to wipe the kitchen countertop.
Posted on Nov 17, the clip has garnered 160,200 views, 1,800 reactions, and 244 comments as of press time.
In the clip, two employees can be seen handling a crab, with one cutting it on a white rag. The recording also captures a conversation between two men, identified by 8world as a customer and the chef handling the crabs.
“Do you think it’s right to cut the crabs on top of the table rag?” the man asks in Mandarin. The chef explains that the rag “was washed, has been washed a lot and is meant to wipe the dishes.”
“Shouldn’t it be cut on a cutting board?” the man retorts, while adding that “the food is about to go into our mouths for consumption”.
When the chef laughs in response, the man asks: “Do you think this is funny?”
