UK man claims he found mouse in soup from local Chinese restaurant. 'Tail was the first thing I saw'

Sam Hayward had been a customer of the Chinese restaurant since the past 20 years.

A man from the UK claimed that he spotted a mouse in his soup from a Chinese takeout restaurant. According to the Independent, Sam Hayward from Kent started eating the soup bought by his girlfriend from the restaurant when he spotted something moving inside. He thought that it might be a “large” mushroom in his mushroom noodle soup but realised that it had a tail.

He shot a video of the soup and called the restaurant from where his girlfriend had bought the food from. ''I started eating and got about three-quarters to halfway through it and then thought, 'That's a big mushroom, isn't it? It was twitching... I'm no animal expert, but it couldn't have been alive'', Hayward said.

''The tail was the first thing I saw and it just freaked me out,'' he added.

However, the restaurant denied it was their food and didn’t even offer a refund. Since his girlfriend, Emily, had paid in cash and didn’t retain a receipt, there was no way to prove that the food in question was from the Chinese restaurant.

Hayward said that he had been a customer of the restaurant since the last  20 years and was disappointed by their behaviour. "All I wanted was for them to apologise – it's just the principal," he further quoted.