One of China’s biggest restaurant chains has promised to refund thousands of customers after footage of a patron urinating into a simmering hotpot went viral online, triggering a public outcry.
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Jenny Lee,
CNBC,
26 Aug. 2026
Served on a bed of jasmine rice, the bowl includes chicken tinga — a Mexican dish in which the chicken is shredded and simmered in a smoky, slightly spicy red sauce — roasted corn salsa, pico de gallo, avocado crema and sliced jalapeños.
Getting that apparently trivial behavior working involved Home Assistant, MQTT, custom software, and more Claude, Codex and ChatGPT tokens than one should reasonably associate with boiling pasta.
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New Atlas,
New Atlas,
27 Aug. 2026
The clip, filmed last month, appeared to show a young man standing on a table at a Haidilao branch in Shanghai urinating into a vat of boiling broth.
That’s why Miami needs to be aggressive trying to find a competent backup center, guard and tackle on the waiver wire via trades and through practice squad poaching.
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Omar Kelly
August 24,
Miami Herald,
24 Aug. 2026
Hickey had to send an apology letter to the city of Dover, Ohio for trespassing and poaching a 10-point buck in a public park.
Their sound was described as a hybrid mixing elements of rock, blues and funk into a steaming-hot Houston stew.
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CBS News,
CBS News,
18 Aug. 2026
Brighter landscape shots with more complicated colors, however, like a steaming blue hot spring surrounded by yellow-red sand and green trees, don’t look nearly as vibrant as the lush greens and blues of the Planet Earth II footage.
Others are stewed with aromatics and oil to make a riotous take on XO sauce, funky and inky and complex, which gilds the hunks of squash under their corny beurre blanc.
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Helen Rosner,
New Yorker,
16 Aug. 2026
Idda takes an epic approach to unearthing the packed layers of a stewing friendship.
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