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The story
At an event in Tokyo, 116 people who ate chilled crab ramen from a food stall run by streamer Komeo — known for his ties to the fighting event “Breaking Down” — reported feeling ill and were taken to hospitals. On 5ch’s “Nan Demo Jikkyo G” board, a thread went up almost immediately, with posters questioning the standards for approving street-stall permits and the day’s food-safety practices. Many comments compared the scale of the damage to past mass food-poisoning incidents, while others focused on how the cause would be identified and whether anyone would ultimately be held responsible.
What people said
Roy, just order Uber Eats already! (the "ping-pong" is the Uber Eats door chime)
– Raw beef (yukhoe) mass food poisoning: 181 people (5 deaths)
– Azabu-Juban crab ramen: 76 people
– Arsenic curry case: 67 people (4 deaths)
This one's already topped the arsenic curry case, lol
At this scale, we're lucky nobody died.
Back in 1936 there was the Hama-Ichi Junior High daifuku mochi incident —
2,116 people affected, 44 of them died.
Cause was salmonella-contaminated daifuku mochi handed out at a sports festival.
What exactly went wrong with the crab ramen?
Komeo: "Delete that video, you jerk!"
Biwako: "Sorry, it's actually delicious. For real."
What's Biwako gonna do now that he caved and gushed over Komeo's shop lol
Some benefit of the doubt is fair since taste changes depending on how it's cooked —
though I doubt Komeo can actually cook.
No way — they'll always be able to identify the (bacterial) strain.
That's just common sense, right?
Even calling it a "stall," it's food being served right in front of an actual shop.
No idea why.
Probably because he had a feud with Horiemon (Takafumi Horie).
Testing the victims' poop, maybe?
Apparently there's a regular shop nearby, so it was probably made there.
Everyone, hurry up and get some!
Uh…
wait, he's still open?
Apparently it's temporarily closed.
Tokyo's rules say street stalls can only sell food that's been heated right before serving.
What Komeo served was chilled ramen.
There shouldn't have been any heating right before it went out.
Wait, so shaved ice isn't allowed either?
Honestly, hearing "chilled crab ramen" makes me kind of want to try it.
Wouldn't mind trying soft-shell crab itself either.
There's an exception — shaved ice is fine.
What about candy-coated apricots (anzu-ame)?
He himself says he didn't, and there's no proof otherwise, right?
Whether he used it or not is completely beside the point.
Triple-digit food poisoning numbers mean his career in food service is basically over for life, and criminal charges are looking likely too.
Once the police really start digging, any lies will unravel fast.
If he really did throw it away, wouldn't there be evidence of that disposal?
Getting people sick with food prepared fresh that day is actually worse —
it's not about storage or reheating, it means the cooking process or equipment itself was contaminated.
That's like, did-he-mix-poop-into-it levels of bad.
Well, someone who doesn't even know the difference between brandy and whiskey probably shouldn't be serving stuff for people to eat.
That said, it seems fine when he runs it normally at an actual shop — he even had fans.
Wasn't that one actually never even detected, with no victims either?
creatures that don't bleed when you cut them are the scary ones when something goes wrong.
Crab should be fine, I'd think —
though if they were actually cleaning out the gills/guts (watatori) in-house, that'd be more worrying. But they're probably sourcing it already cleaned and frozen.
Background and key points of this discussion
Under Tokyo’s food-safety rules, food sold at street stalls is generally required to be heated immediately before serving, and extra caution applies to room-temperature or chilled dishes. In the thread, many posters compared the scale of the damage to past mass food-poisoning cases (the raw-beef/yukhoe mass poisoning, the arsenic curry case, and the 1936 Hama-Ichi Junior High daifuku mochi incident), and the sheer size of this incident — 116 people — drew renewed attention. That said, whether the specific ingredient responsible can be identified, and whether any criminal liability follows, depends on factors like whether the food in question was preserved and what health department testing turns up — none of this was settled fact at the time of the thread. The incident is also sometimes confused with unrelated past online food controversies like the “death muffin” case, but the scale and nature of harm differ from case to case.
*This article is compiled and summarized from the 5ch (“Nan Demo Jikkyo G”) thread “[Bad News] Komeo Sends 116 People to the Hospital wwwwwwwwwwww“.
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