The Jin Gu restaurant, at number 37 Perpetua Díaz Street, Usera, had been accumulating good reviews on Google for years. Authentic” food, “huge plates” and “fair prices” were the most repeated terms. Until the situation changed completely.
Last March 25, Madrid Municipal Police officers, after receiving numerous complaints, carried out an inspection of the establishment, as reported by Luis F. Durán in an article in El Mundo. What they found: 300 kilos of rotten food, meat hanging from clotheslines, rat traps with decomposed meat as bait, cockroaches and plucked domestic pigeons ready to be served as lacquered duck. There were also rusty frying pans and a makeshift extractor fan made from a plastic cup.
Crime against public health and opinions
While the authorities are accusing the owner of a crime against public health and another against fauna and flora, there is another side to the reviews of the place on Google that now take on an almost prophetic aspect.
Some customers had already recorded what others overlooked between steaming plates and soy sauce: “Bad, bad and very bad. The place is dirty and messy and the food is unpalatable. We will never come back,” warned one user. Another customer recounted an even less glamorous experience: “Dirty floor, horrible kitchen, like seeing a dump there and then eating the food and thinking where did that come from”.