Chicken chain hit by soup-tainting vigilante attacksBy Jonathan Chin / Staff writer, with CNAA group on Wednesday evening dumped an unidentified powder into pots at 10 restaurants, targeting a sesame oil chicken chain in Taipei and New Taipei City, police told a news conference yesterday. Chang Ming-che (張銘哲), head of the New Taipei City Police Department’s Sixth Criminal Investigation Corps, said that police have arrested three suspects and that no restaurant patrons were affected. A suspect dumps an unknown substance into a vat of sesame oil chicken stew at a restaurant in the greater Taipei area on Wednesday. A police source commenting on condition of anonymity identified the chain as Chuang Chia Pan (莊家班) sesame oil chicken restaurants. The chicken stew chain owns all of its venues, with none operating as franchises, they said.

Source: Taipei Times January 01, 2026 17:14 UTC