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A string of people reported feeling ill over the “chilled crab ramen” Komeo sold at the Azabu-Juban Festival. Reports say roughly 40 servings were provided on the 22nd and about 500 on the 23rd; on 5ch, threads circulated citing his own post that rain canceled the event and left 700 servings unsold, alongside suspicions that ingredients had been reused or undercooked.
8/27 (Thu) 19:12
Komeo, the “fighting cook” known for numerous appearances in “Breaking Down,” updated his official X (formerly Twitter) account on the 27th, issuing a statement about reports of people falling ill after consuming items sold at the “Azabu-Juban Festival,” held August 22–23.
Komeo wrote: “To everyone who has fallen ill over this, and to everyone who has been worried, I’m truly sorry for the concern this has caused. At this point the cause is still unknown, but we are currently cooperating with an investigation together with the public health center and the Azabu-Juban association.”
Source: news.yahoo.co.jp / Original article here
What people said
The Azabu-Juban Festival got rained out, and 700 servings went unsold.
Hope the weather's good tomorrow…
Whoa… wait, is this for real?
Well, there's your confession.
Never had it.
Worth trying?
No joke, it's bad.
The crab-miso ramen at Club Gang in Susukino is genuinely great.
I once had ramen with crab still in the shell — a real pain to eat.
By the time you peel it the noodles go soggy, your hands get sticky, it's a hassle all around.
And the crab flavor barely even came through.
Se-me-te se-me-te se-me-te se-me-te (riffing on the chant's rhythm — "semete" also means "at least")
Why isn't he saying it? Once it comes out that he reused it, you're finished, buddy.
Food poisoning from a two-day festival, lol
What did you even do, lol
He reused ingredients that had sat out at room temperature the day before.
According to Komeo, heating it through apparently makes it safe.
I'd love to know how big his fridge actually is.
Getting through a summer day with just a styrofoam cooler, ice packs, and ice is rough enough as it is.
The answer's staring right at us — it's food poisoning
Komeo / A cook fighting on the world stage. @komeo1144
X.com
The Azabu-Juban Festival got rained out, and 700 servings went unsold.
Hope the weather's good tomorrow…
20:14 2026/08/22 · 110K views
Tairaa @yossysakurai · 3d
Don't carry it over to the next day — throw it out properly. Signed, Food Poisoning
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https://www.sankei.com/article/20260827-O55NPJKI7JAH5JHVHPA7M6AKFA/
> At the festival, a restaurant within the ward served "chilled crab ramen." According to the health center, about 40 servings were provided on the 22nd and roughly 500 on the 23rd.
The scary part is there's still leftovers.
And wait, it's served chilled?
If it's not being heated, that's a breeding ground for Vibrio parahaemolyticus.
It's crab ramen, so the crab spoils fast.
There's no way 700 servings all fit in a fridge, so there's a good chance it went bad.
I once saw a video from a hoarder-house cleanup crew.
They said crab is the worst-smelling thing they ever deal with.
"Quick to leave a trail" is basically a criminal's problem.
Might still happen, though.
It's chilled ramen with crab in it — so the crab's basically raw, isn't it.
Even crab that's already been cooked can get recontaminated and the bacteria multiply like crazy — that's a common cause of summer food poisoning.
That's exactly why they say never let frozen pre-boiled crab thaw naturally.
Saint Seiya much?
** We've officially entered "Kadoruto" territory now ** (an obscure slang/meme term — possibly a garbled riff on "occult"; meaning unclear)
Background and Key Points
The Azabu-Juban Festival is one of Tokyo’s largest summer street fairs, held in Minato Ward, where food is sold not by the ward itself but by independent vendors under temporary stall permits overseen by the local public health center (hokenjo). When illness is reported, it’s this health center — not police or the festival organizer — that investigates under the Food Sanitation Act, testing for pathogens like *Vibrio parahaemolyticus*, a bacteria that thrives in raw or improperly chilled seafood in summer heat. Komeo himself is a YouTube personality best known for appearances on the fighting-show “Breaking Down,” and food stalls are a side business for him, with the Sankei-sourced count of roughly 40 servings on the 22nd and 500 on the 23rd giving the only official scale to the outbreak so far.
The thread’s real disagreement isn’t over whether people got sick, but over causation: many posters treat Komeo’s own rain-related tweet about 700 unsold servings as an implicit confession that day-one crab was carried over and reused, while a smaller thread of comments pushes back that ramen broth itself rarely causes food poisoning and that any vendor serving crab outdoors in August faces the same risk regardless of reuse.
What the thread misses is that “chilled” (hiyashi) doesn’t mean uncooked — but chilling cooked seafood improperly, or letting it warm during transport and reheating it later, is itself enough to let Vibrio regrow, so the reuse question and the food-safety question aren’t actually the same issue. It’s also worth noting, as one poster mentions, that Japanese food-poisoning investigations frequently close without ever confirming a definitive cause.
*This article is an excerpt/summary compiled from the 5ch (Geinou/Sports Breaking News+) thread “Komeo Issues Statement After People Fall Ill from Items Sold at Azabu-Juban Festival — “Cause Unknown,” But Vows “Full Cooperation” with Investigation.”
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