蜜芽传媒

Mushrooms, dumplings, tofu and seafood. Those are some of the delicious items to be found in hotpot, one of east Asia's most popular meals.

But a hotpot restaurant chain in China saw its stock price plummet after a pregnant customer found an unexpected ingredient in her broth: a dead rat.

Emily Feng, the China correspondent for the Financial Times in Beijing said social media users are outraged.