Mouse Allegedly Found in Fried Rice Incites Bloody Chinese Restaurant Brawl

A mouse allegedly found in a Connecticut customer's fried rice dinner incited a melee at the Chinese takeout restaurant the next day.

Antwaun Boyd, 25, and his grandmother—described as being in her mid-60s—headed over to China Xpress in Stamford, Connecticut, where they blamed the cooks for serving up a furry surprise.

They managed to start a brawl that landed Boyd in jail, police confirmed.

"[Boyd] claimed he went home and found a mouse in there that was fried with the rice," Stamford Police Department's Sergeant Robert Shawinsky told Newsweek.

The order was placed on August 1, and Boyd and his grandmother allegedly waited until the following afternoon to bring their protest to China Xpress.

"They didn't bring this up until the next day, which is important," Shawinsky said.

Once Boyd and his grandmother were inside the Selleck Street eatery to complain over the alleged ingredient, they told police that an employee tried to tamper with the evidence.

"As he was mentioning the mouse, he says he saw one of the workers take the mouse out and try to hide it," suggesting Boyd was fibbing, Shawinsky confirmed.

It's unclear if the employee was trying to segregate the alleged mouse from the rice to show it wasn't part of the order or not.

"Whether that's fact or fiction, we have no way of knowing," said Shawinsky.

Tempers flared after that, and Shawinsky said that "there was minor pushing and shoving match" where Boyd allegedly hit one employee in the face. Other employees stormed out of the kitchen armed with spoons and struck back at Boyd and his grandmother, police said.

"The grandmother was either pushed or struck somehow," he said. "There were visible injuries that we had recommended to have looked at."

An employee and the grandmother were later treated at Stamford Hospital for minor injuries, police said.

So far, only Boyd has been charged with assault and disorderly conduct. More charges could be brought, Shawinsky said.

The fried mouse, however, wasn't able to be tagged as evidence from the scene because responding authorities were focused on neutralizing the physical contest between the Chinese restaurant cooks versus Boyd and his grandmother.

"We didn't really look for it because by the time we got there it was a physical altercation underway," he said. "That's for the health department to deal with."

The Stamford Health Department has opened a probe over the matter, Shawinsky confirmed.