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Twenty-eight people who attended a banquet at Hotel Hankyu Expo Park in Suita City last Saturday night suffered food poisoning, police said Tuesday. One woman was briefly hospitalized, but all appear to be recovering normally after showing symptoms, including vomiting and diarrhea.
According to authorities, the individuals, ranging in age from 35 to 84, came from Osaka, Hyogo and Nara prefectures, and dined on sashimi and "nimono" (boiled dishes) at the hotel. The food was prepared at the hotel's banquet space kitchen and restaurant Hana Senri.
Prefectural officials ordered the restaurants closed until Sept 19 so they can conduct an investigation.
© News reports
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S7ro9kGm3aQ
Food poisoning? Impossible!
Did nobody tell these good people that this is Safety Japan?
bobbafett
eat fish at your own peril.
fritatten
sure. 100+ million people eat fish every day and a few cases of food poisoning prove it's dangerous. Ignore statistics at your own peril. I wouldn't say a red-meat-heavy diet is safer - or healthier.
stirfry
"boiled dishes" ...too difficult to actually find out what they were, huh ?
Kapuna
Not "boiled" enough me thinks!
nath
Boiled dishes are nimono, and can easily get contaminated too. Just eat everything. Life is too short to worry about a little bit of loose number 2 and a bit of ralphing.
TSRnow
Sashimi, I would understand but nimonos usually are very well cooked to soak in the soup.
It's a banquet. I'd say they need to concentrate on the more likely things like Carpaccios or roast beef or something.
sansamp
Always amazed me how in japan Hotel food has this 'good' image. Where i come from, hotel food means food that's overpriced, mediocre and made without any care whatsoever.
usaexpat
So was it the cooked food or bad sashimi? Either way this outfit is going to see a marked drop in banquet business.
usaexpat
sansamp: the hotel food here is mediocre and overpriced just like back home. I don't understand why Japanese view hotel or banquet food as good or luxurious either. You're better off in a basement izakaya