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Diner calls police after restaurant charges her nearly £600 for a crab
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A Japanese tourist claims she was quoted £18 for a whopping 3.5kg Alaskan King Crab without mention that the price was per 100g.

A group of tourists sampling a high-end local delicacy in Singapore called police to their restaurant after receiving an eye-watering bill.

The party was left ‘speechless’ when they received total bill of S$1,322 , with the crab totalling S$938 . Ms Shinba accused the restaurant of not properly explaining the pricing or informing the group of the crab’s total weight of 3.5kg before it was cooked.She told Asia One: ‘None of us were informed that the whole crab would be cooked only for us, as some other restaurants serve crabs partially.But restaurant managers have hit back at her ‘deeply inaccurate’ claims, insisting that the price was ‘communicated twice to the customers’.

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