CW11 - Enjoy your mouse because it's not ours

New York Chinese Protest 'Mouse' in Takeout Report

Sing Tao Daily, Posted: Feb 06, 2007

NEW YORK - About 400 Asian Americans gathered in front of the television station CW11 (WPIX-TV Channel 11) in freezing weather on Feb. 4 to protest the station's report that a woman found a mouse in her Chinese takeout, reports the Chinese-language Sing Tao Daily. In a CW11 television report about the New Food King restaurant in Brooklyn, a customer claimed she had found a piece of meat that was shaped like a rodent in her food. The television station later interviewed a biologist who said the piece of meat was a rodent. New York City councilman John Liu said that the biologist that the television station found was not reputable and that the biologist's report should have been verified before the report went on the air. Protesters waved signs that read "Say Sorry" to demand that the television station apologize. But the station did not issue an apology. Lawyers representing the restaurant said the restaurant may plan to sue the television station, according to Sing Tao.