Live shrimp attack Hotpot Diner in wild video

A woman dining at a Chinese hotpot restaurant literally had the tables turned when the undemanding meal backfired and caused a painful attack.

The moment was captured on video and posted to a TikTok account that documents food and rural life in China. In the minute-long clip, which has been viewed nearly five million times, the woman can be seen picking up the animal by its antennae – this was her first mistake – and trying to fall into the boiling broth along with a cluster of crabs. legs.

However, after the shrimp wriggled out of his grasp, he tried to tackle it with a pair of chopsticks. On his second attempt, the shrimp latched onto his right wrist with one of its front appendages, then speared his left finger as he tried to pull it off.

As the poor woman screamed in pain, she was helped off-camera by another person who appeared to be a restaurant employee. But the shrimp was really stuck and it took him about 50 agonizing seconds to remove his grip while she screamed and cried.

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However, the woman's painful ordeal didn't elicit much sympathy in the comments, with many falling squarely on Team Shrimp. “Good for that shrimp!! He didn't go out without a fight,” one commenter wrote, while another added that they were rooting for the shrimp. “When the food backfires,” joked another user.

As many commenters have pointed out, the shrimp in question was probably a mantis shrimp. Carnivorous species have powerful predatory appendages that they use to attack and kill their prey, either by spearing, stunning or dismembering. In fact, mantis shrimp are sometimes called “thumb rippers” because of their ability to cause painful wounds if not handled carefully, as this woman no doubt learned the hard way.

However, despite the dangers of fighting them, mantis shrimp are eaten in many places around the world, including China, Japan, the Philippines and the Mediterranean. They are prized for their sweet-tasting meat, which is more similar to lobster. Of course, there's a reason we don't handle lobster with our bare hands, and anyone trying to make live lobsters should use extra caution.

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