Christchurch dumpling restaurant scraps 'Dump Rings' takeaway bags

  • 20/08/2018
Christchurch dumpling restaurant scraps 'Dump Rings' takeaway bags
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A Christchurch restaurant has stopped an order for takeaway bags deemed to be offensive.

Pot Sticker Dumpling owner Jason Dodd told Newshub the latest order for takeaway bags with the words 'Dump Rings' printed on them was cancelled after he received a complaint in April.

"I didn't want to offend anyone."

Mr Dodd took over ownership of the restaurant in October last year and says there has only been one complaint since.

He personally rang the complainant and talked to his staff who said the bags had been that way for four years before he took ownership. 

"I still cancelled the order anyway [off the one complaint] I didn't want to be offending anyone.

"At the end of the day, it's a new business and...I don't really think it needs to be on there anyway to sell dumplings."

The new bags which have the wording removed are yet to arrive. Until they do the takeaway bags will be blank.

Earlier this year, Christchurch restaurant Bamboozle was slammed over its 'racist' menu names that featured names such as "Ho Lee Kok", "Eja Ku Rait", and "Chirri Garrik an Prawn Dumpring".

An image of the food available at the Asian fusion eatery Bamboozle was posted online igniting a firestorm of controversy with many people saying the menu names were "juvenile" and "racist".

The menu names have since been changed.  

Newshub.