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Restaurant shut down after roadkill brought into kitchen
Reporter: Brittany PelletzEmail
Updated: Fri 7:03 PM, Sep 28, 2012

WILLIAMSBURG, Ky. (WKYT) - A Chinese restaurant forced to shut its doors after getting caught with a dead deer in the kitchen.

It happened Thursday afternoon at the Red Flower Chinese Restaurant in Williamsburg.

"We were actually joking about the, you know, the whole Chinese restaurant. You know some rumors that you hear," says Katie Hopkins, a customer of the Red Flower restaurant.

But, Hopkins and her friends never imaged what would happen next, after finishing up a buffet lunch.

"Two of the workers came in wheeling a garbage can and they had a box sitting on top of it. And hanging out of the garbage can, they were trying to be real quick with it. So that nobody could see it. But there was like a tail, and a foot and leg. Sticking out of the garbage can and they wheeled it straight back into the kitchen," adds Hopkins.

Hopkins immediately called the health department to describe what she saw, "Many people eat there. A lot of locals eat there on lunch breaks and stuff. It was very disturbing. There was actually a blood trail that they were mopping up behind the garbage can."

Paul Lawson, the environmental health inspector in Whitley County says this is the craziest thing he's ever seen.

After he arrived at the Chinese restaurant on south highway 25 West, he says the complaints proved to be true after finding roadkill in the restaurants kitchen.

Lawson tells us that the owner's son admitted to picking up a dead deer off the side of I-75 north in Williamsburg.

This prompted the health department to immediately shut down business.

"They said they didn't know that they weren't allowed to. So that makes me concerned. But maybe thy could have before. They didn't admit to doing it before," says Lawson.

Lawson tells us that the restaurant can reopen if they pass a secondary health inspection, proving that they have washed, rinsed, and sanitized the restaurant after having roadkill inside.

The restaurant owner tells the health department that he wasn't going to serve the road kill to customers, but instead to his family.

The Red Flower Chinese Restaurant will not face any fines.

WKYT contacted the owner of the restaurant, but due to a language barrier we were not able to confirm if the family had plans to reopen the business.

Some customers like Katie Hopkins say, even if they reopen, they won't be going back, "I don't think I'll ever eat Chinese food ever again."

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Cops will sometimes donate deer freshly killed on the roads to needy families. That I can understand.....but....you know damn well the chinese folk didn't care if it hours or a day old kill.

I believe that they were keeping it for themselves. You still don't drag the fucking deer into your OPEN restaurant stuffed in a bloody trash can in front of goddamn customers. You know they had a back door to the kitchen. So if they are that clueless.....they don't need to be feeding the public.

The back door is for the cats and rats, everybody know that.

That ranks up there with one of the strangest restaurant stories I have heard. Beside the fact, deer is dry as hell to cook or eat...wtf were they making with it that could possible resemble anything, but beef fried rice.

Ahh. Bad meat in the back door. Good meat up front. Which by sheer coincidence is the title of my new gay porn movie.

Deer meat is awesome if you know how to cook it.

Yeah I love a good venison steak, usually have a few in NZ if my brother has recently shot Bambi, but as with most game meats it has to be done rare.

Exactly. Another good way that tenderizes it, is to slow simmer in a brown gravy then serve with rice. I've had some really good deer sausage too.

Dosnt surprise me you love sausage

Lol at the sausage. The only thing I have ever like with deer is when it is made into Jerky. Used to go hunting with my second husband and camping so had it right there. I did not like it. Had it cooked at home. Uggh. Several different ways.