An Adelaide woman got a big surprise when she found something very unexpected at the bottom of her takeaway dinner.
Shraddha said had ordered a hotpot from a local takeaway shop last week and after eating about half, she planned to save the rest for lunch the next day – but ended up picking at it a bit more.
That’s when she noticed something strange.
‘I was picking at the bottom and the container was feeling a little bit weird,’ she said.
‘So I kept digging and at the bottom of the container was a working phone.’
Shraddha touched the screen and saw it was still on.
‘I rang the place and I was like “hey I found a phone in my hotpot” and they were like “oh yeah we did have a phone missing from one of our chefs”,’ she said.
‘They were apologising and I was like “no worries I’ll bring it back”.
The woman showed off her find at the bottom of her takeway dish
Shraddha ordered a hotpot last week when she found a phone at the bottom
‘What had happened was apparently the chef put the phone down in the takeaway container and because it was black it blended in with the container.
‘I paid $35 for the hotpot originally and they gave me $50 back and the chef was like “oh let me know when you’re here next time and I’ll give you a free hotpot”.’
Shraddha wouldn’t name the fast food store ‘because they’re a very well-established business and I don’t want to bring them down over a single mistake’.
Thankfully since she lived nearby, she didn’t need to reheat the meal when she got home.
Putting a phone in a microwave is extremely dangerous and can cause a fire, damage the phone and the microwave, and potentially release harmful vapors.
Aussies online praised her for not naming and shaming the business.
‘Dinner with a side of phone,’ one person said.
‘It’s really sweet of you to not making a bigger deal but glad that in the end everything worked out and you will get free hotpot,’ another said.
