Famous restaurant fined for false advertising

One-star Michelin restaurant Madam Goose in Shanghai has been fined 30,000 yuan ($4,400) for being dishonest about the origins of its signature dish.

According to local news portal Shanghai Observer, the popular restaurant had advertised to the public that its signature roast goose was from 3-month-old black brown geese specially produced in the city of Qingyuan in central Guangdong province.

But Shanghai authorities have found that the restaurant’s parent company Wowprime bought the geese from a supplier in Foshan, another city in Guangdong province. Although this supplier did purchase black brown goslings from Qingyuan, the animals were raised, slaughtered and frozen in Foshan, which according to the authorities means they are not the same as geese in Qingyuan.

As many as 262,000 advertisements were printed, according to the report.

The market regulation administration in Shanghai’s Putuo district delivered the administrative penalty in December.