Ca-Tu-Ya, a popular Japanese restaurant in Hong Kong, apologized after a customer put a used mask on a clean tube.

Ca-Tu-Ya Restaurant in the Yau Ma Tei area in the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region yesterday issued an apology statement after a photo of a male customer hiding a mask on his chopsticks while eating a meal was released. social networks, causing a wave of outrage.

In the picture, the young man ate a plate of rice with fried pork while using the phone. The blue mask is placed face down on the restaurant's chopsticks.

"We have deeply reviewed this incident and apologized to everyone," the restaurant wrote in the statement, expressing its regret for not promptly preventing such customers' behavior. However, Ca-Tu-Ya denies that the young man in the photo is a restaurant employee as alleged by many social network users.

After the photo was shared online, Gigi June's account criticized the young man as a "selfish man" for doing so. This person expressed concern that the mask might contaminate the chopsticks in the tube, while Covid-19 was as complicated as it is today.

Another account, RonRon considered this a terrible behavior and said that the young man should not go to the restaurant for a meal in the near future.

Ca-Tu-Ya said there were extra hygienic measures, such as providing tissues for customers wrapped in used masks and setting the table clean when guests left. At the same time, the restaurant also decided to provide utensils when serving food instead of leaving it on the table as before.