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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
Alisha Rahaman Sarkar

Parents ordered to pay £227,000 after drunk Chinese teenagers urinate in soup

A Chinese court has ordered the parents of two teenagers who filmed themselves urinating into a pot of broth at a hotpot restaurant to pay 2.2m yuan (£227,000) in compensation.

The video of the drunk 17-year-olds standing on a table and urinating into the broth pot while dining in a private room at the Shanghai branch of China's biggest hotpot chain, Haidilao, had triggered widespread public outrage.

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