Food blogger almost burns down restaurant over minor dispute

By Dexter Lok, Junior correspondent, Lifestyle.

Famous food blogger Tan Li En (aka Linnie) set fire to a Japanese restaurant after realising there would be no one to cook the hotpot for her

Linnie caught posing for her Instagram page moments before her dispute with the staff

TSIM SHA TSUI, HONG KONG– 1 person has died while 16 others were hospitalised after a mini gas stove exploded and sent Japanese restaurant Ca Tu Ya into flames. This occurred moments after food blogger Linnie tipped her hotpot set off her table and onto the floor amidst a verbal dispute with the service staff.

Linnie, who had ordered a shabu-shabu hotpot set, was taken aback when she realised that her hotpot set came uncooked. This resulted in a dispute between Linnie, who wanted the staff to cook the hotpot for her, and the service staff, who explained that the hotpot could be easily be cooked by Linnie herself.

Eyewitness accounts of the guests at the restaurant claim that Linnie had simply misunderstood the staff’s explanation. She had immediately snapped when the staff told her that there wasn’t a need for anyone to help her with the hotpot, accusing the staff of “insulting her intelligence” whilst “denying her of a service she had already paid for”.

On the other hand, the staff was seen to have been patient enough to repeat the phrase “ok but can you chill now” in an attempt to calm the livid customer.

Linnie has yet to comment on the situation. She was last seen being escorted onto the ambulance with minor bruises. Witnesses of the commotion also claim that she was in a state of shock, chanting “oh sorry” under her breath.