“I am traumatized,” Hannah Rasbach tells PEOPLE of the May 5 incident at Ongi in New York City
- 27-year-old Hannah Rasbach claims she discovered a 4- to 5-inch rodent in her spring mix and beef bulgogi bowl from Ongi in N.Y.C. on May 5
- The restaurant says surveillance footage and a May 7 health inspection found no evidence of vermin and confirmed its “A” health rating
- Rasbach, who began precautionary antibiotics, says she’s not pursuing legal action but has been deeply disturbed and is now avoiding takeout food altogether
Hannah Rasbach, 27, was picking up her go-to bowl of spring mix, grilled salmon and beef bulgogi and toppings from Ongi on West 37th Street in New York City on Monday, May 5 during her lunch break at work when she alleges she was greeted with a topping that most definitely was not on the menu – a dead rodent.
“I ate probably, like, half to maybe two-thirds of the salad, I would guess, and I just kind of saw part of it covered – I thought it was a piece of beef bulgogi that was not fully chopped up, and it was kind of buried under the lettuce,” she tells PEOPLE. “So I started trying to cut it with a knife, and something didn’t feel right, so I moved the lettuce over and could tell what it was pretty quickly. I was in shock.”
Security footage from Ongi that was shared with Kemberly Richardson of Eyewitness News confirms that Rasbach was in Ongi on May 5…