
news.com: Japanese cops solve 'dumpling-gate'
POLICE have raided Japan's top mail order retailer after it shipped uncooked dumplings [gyoza] to some 1800 customers using the name of a famous restaurant in Tokyo. Cecile...said it has already refunded some six million yen ($72,600) to dumpling connoisseurs who thought they would get to eat the real thing...The raid came after Niwake, a famous dumpling restaurant in Tokyo, filed a complaint that the mail order firm used the name without permission. Cecile admitted selling the dumplings with the restaurant's name to..."We misunderstood that our company had already received the restaurant's permission," the spokesman said. "We apologised to the customers for the false advertisement," he said.