vannamei shrimps

Since the year is about to end, some news programs seem to be bringing up old news that caught the public attention this year.

A couple of months ago, it caused a flutter when it turned out that a famous hotel in Osaka (was it Ritz?) had "decieved" the customers who had come to the restaurant.  They had used vannamei shrimps instead of shiba shrimps, and normal leek instead of kujo leek.

People were furious.  I found it hilarious.  I mean, who cares if you can't tell the difference anyway?  The hotel manager ended up apologizing for the "misunderstanding" in the kitchen, but I thought he should've told everyone to tell them something was wrong with the shrimps and leeks the moment they noticed -- which would be while the customers are actually eating them at the restaurant.  Not when an insider leaks the info.

I do see the potential problem.  They shouldn't use rotten food just because we wouldn't notice (though I hope we would in that case).  Doctors shouldn't "decieve" patients just because patients don't have enough knowledge to notice the doctor's error.

But in this case, it's just a shrimp.  And we found out that vannamei shrimps were cheap and good!