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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
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Sarah Butler

Former ‘rudest restaurant in London’ fined after mice found in kitchen

A sign above the door of Wong Kei restaurant in London.
Wong Kei is part of the capital’s folklore, according to Guardian food critic Grace Dent. Photograph: Ashok Saxena/Alamy

A restaurant in London’s Chinatown once called the capital’s rudest has been fined more than £40,000 after mice and cockroaches were found in its kitchen.

Wong Kei, which has traded on Wardour Street for decades and was “once famous for its impersonal level of service”, as the online guide to Chinatown puts it, was prosecuted for food hygiene offences and after its owners were found to have falsified documents.

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