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The city Health Department just sent out a press release announcing that Penang, the popular Malaysian restaurant and sushi bar at 2201 S. Wentworth, was shut down yesterday for "critical violations of the City Health Code" after being tipped off by a person calling 311, reporting the sight of a rat entering the building housing Penang.
Among Penang's many offenses, inspectors found live fruit flies and rodent feces throughout the kitchen and "premises" (one can make his own assumption whether or not that includes the dining room); a reach-in cooler storing chicken, tofu and bean sprouts at a bordering-on-culture-breeding 56°F, and overflowing dumpsters.
A call to Penang management was returned with a terse "We're doing the best we can to correct the violations." We've been watching "Kitchen Nightmares;" better the Health Department bust you than Gordon Ramsay. He'll make you cry, then eat your food.
Photo via Penang Web site.
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If Chicagoist can do anything more helpful, it would be to frequently post things like this. There are a lot of restaurants that don't make even page 5 or 6 in the papers relating to this. Keep it up.
Yeah, and keep talking about Ramsay. You know, in the BBC Kitchen Nightmares he's taking his shirt of all the time.
I like the BBC version.
off...taking his shirt off.
i got all flustered.
I agree with the previous guest. Also, 56 degrees isn't "bordering-on-culture-breeding"; that's 40 degrees. 56 degrees is really bad.
Love this headline.
Rat feces? Fruit flies? Suck it up!
Stick with PF Chang's or Panda Express if you don't like it.