Screenshot for a video clip shows a tourist guide asks Chinese mainland tourists to boycott its popular noodle brand Master Kong. (Photo/Screenshot)
(ECNS) -- Taiwanese food giant Ting Hsin has filed a report with police after a local tour guide asked Chinese mainland tourists to boycott its popular noodle brand Master Kong due to a gutter oil scandal.
Ting Hsin, which owns the brand through its subsidiary Tingyi (Cayman Islands) Holding Corporation, caused public anger across Taiwan for producing cooking oil from recycled sewage waste, according to the female tour guide.
She also said Ting Hsin products are unavailable in grocery stores and other shops in Taiwan while urging Chinese mainlanders to join the boycott.
The amount of gutter oil sold by Ting Hsin to China is 56 times the amount in Taiwan, the guide claimed.
A video documenting the incident has gone viral on social media and has been shared more than 10,000 times.
Tingyi said in a statement that its products have nothing to do with the oil scandal in Taiwan. The company has also requested that police undertake an investigation.
