Man Found 3 Cockroaches in Gongcha Drink in the Philippines & Almost Drank It Down

Perplexed, I asked my my editor, BH, “Why is it that similar news come in spates? Just a few days back it was Irvins Salted Egg Gecko Fish Skin news and now 3 roaches found in Gongcha drink in the Philippines?”

Armed with 3 PHDs in Communications, 2 in Quantam Mechanics, and 1 in smoking (of the smoke-people likes), he explained to me that this was possibly due to Media Bias.

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3 Cockroaches in Gongcha Drink in the Philippines

A while back, when we wanted to do a video on the ten facts about bubble tea and asked our fat and old boss for some money to buy the bubble tea, he gave us an extra $0.90 and said, “Okay, go ahead. Help me buy Teh-O Kosong from the bubble tea shop too.”

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Now that you know what a bubble tea is, let’s move on.

Straits Times reported that a Gong Cha customer in the Philippines found 3 cockroaches in his drink on Wednesday (2 January 2019) and posted about it on the social media platform.

If you don’t believe shady self-proclaimed media companies like Trashy Feed (or some call us, BADDY FEED), at least choose to believe Philippine Gong Cha customer, Nico Yabut’s Facebook post on the incident:

While those 3 dudes look like sunflower seeds at initial glance, Nico guarantees it wasn’t.

Because if his post appears too inscrutable for your eyes, here it is:

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THIS IS ABSOLUTELY DISGUSTING…

This afternoon I ordered from Gong Cha PH Gong Cha Philippines in Theatre Mall, Greenhills. My order actually took a while to make since there were a lot of customers. The staff the. handed me my drink eventually with a sealed straw and all. The drink was really good. But just as I was bout to finish the drink, I moved the cup-sleeve to check how much I had left and I was utterly shocked to see 3…. yes, 3 LITTLE COCKROACHES in my drink.
😡🤬😱🤢🤮😡🤬😱🤢🤮😡🤬😱🤢🤮

Guys, please do check your orders before drinking/eating them… wouldn’t want this to happen to anyone else.

To the management at GONGCHA PH. You might want to investigate. This is simply unacceptable.

(My order was a passion fruit tea w/coco jelly)

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Basically, Nico had almost finished the entire Gong Cha drink before discovering that there were 3 “LITTLE COCKROACHES” in the cup.

The order was a “passion fruit tea with coconut jelly”, if details like these are important to you.

A recap on the IRVINS Saga

Now, lest you were off to Jupiter searching for some diamonds in its carbon core, you should be apprised of Facebook user Jane Holloway’s rather similar post regarding her mother and brother’s IRVINS Salted Egg Fish Skin nasty surprise.

Other than the peckish-gecko, another refreshingly-crunchy tidbit that came out of the saga was IRVINS’ on-point response to the entire incident which garnered universal hand-claps and head-nods.

My Mac-lovin colleague, GY, wrote out about it here.

But if you do not want to read GY’s gibberish, you may also find IRVINS’ sincere and apologetic post below:

Gong Cha Philippines

Just so you are aware though, Gong Cha Singapore is not related to the Gong Cha Philippines outlets.

In the meantime, ST has contacted Gong Cha Philippines for more information.

If you are reading this Gong Cha Philippines, do take a cue from Irvins and not Lavastone Steakhouse please.