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A Chinese restaurant employee is speaking exclusively to Global News after he circulated a video on social media showing him scooping spilled sauce off the floor into a bucket and then taking it to the restaurant.

The incident occurred Tuesday night in front of the Hong Shing Chinese restaurant, near Dundas Street West and University Avenue in downtown Toronto.

Speaking in Cantonese, in an exclusive interview with Global News, the employee in question, Zebin Lin, said “in my heart, I felt like crying,” after discovering that videos of him had been unknowingly recorded and widely shared.

He says the videos don’t tell the whole story. He had just picked up six buckets of sauce from the supply truck when he slipped. A bucket fell over and spilled.

Speaking in Cantonese, Lin said oncoming traffic was approaching, so she tried to clear the area as quickly as she could. He then left an empty bucket outside, but took the rest to the restaurant, where he was told that he would have to dispose of all the produce.

“When he came in, I told him not to worry, all these buckets have to go,” said Hong Shing owner Colin Li, adding that quality control is the restaurant’s top priority.

Elisha Pommainville, who was in her vehicle nearby, says she started recording on her phone when she saw an employee scooping sauce off the ground with her hands.

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“He went to the back to get the cart with the sauce, he was walking and he fell,” Pommainville told Global News. “At first I thought, that sucks. But then when I saw it, he started picking it up. I thought he wasn’t really doing what I think he’s doing. “

The video series was shared first on Pommainville’s Snapchat account and later on Instagram.

They show an employee with several buckets on a cart, cleaning sauce and placing it in buckets, and then carrying the buckets to the restaurant through a back door.

The videos went viral after they were shared on an Instagram account with close to two million followers.

“I have eaten there. My children have eaten there. Many of my friends eat there. So, it was more for people to know, this is what I saw. This is what happened. It is consciousness. It wasn’t because of influence. It wasn’t to destroy a restaurant, ”Pommainville said.

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Li says that since the videos were distributed, the restaurant has received support from the community, but has also received many hateful and harassing calls online.

“A lot of hate calls come to the restaurant saying how unhealthy we are, plus a lot of racist comments that lead to that,” Li said.

“I have to keep fighting this narrative for more than two decades, saying that Chinese restaurants are unhealthy and dirty.

“We work very hard to make sure that no one really feels that way, since I built my social media to show people that I am very transparent in my kitchen. I show literally every angle of my kitchen on social media, so that people can see what goes out and what goes into the restaurant. So this incident is really painful. “

Li says neither Pommainville nor the owner of the Instagram account approached the restaurant for context before posting the videos. The owner of the Instagram account declined to comment.

Pommainville says he did not feel it was his place to approach the restaurant that night and did not anticipate the hateful comments that resulted from the videos.

But he has no regrets about posting the videos.

“I encourage those who still want… to definitely support the business because the goal of the post was not for people to boycott it, it was simply for people to know that this is what I found that day. This is what I have seen. They can make their own choice. “