The "Ghoulish Meal" incident at Hong Kong Cha Chaan Teng

The only paranormal case officially recognized by the government, listed as one of the "Top Ten Urban Legends in Hong Kong."
1. Background of the event and core contradictions
In December 1989, the Chao Chong Kee Tea Restaurant located in the New Territories of Hong Kong became the center of the sensational "Ghost Delivery" incident after receiving takeout orders from the same address for three consecutive days. This case, involving the paradox of "living people delivering food and dead people eating it," became the only supernatural event that the Hong Kong government has not publicly denied.
2. Event details: Strange meal ordering on the third day.
1. First day: The ghost money slipped through the door crack.
The tea restaurant received a takeaway call from Xi Xiu Garden Villa, requesting a meal for four (such as fried rice with egg and dry fried beef ho fun). When the delivery person arrived, the door was only opened a small crack to hand over the Hong Kong dollars, but that night the boss found that the cash box contained paper money (printed with the words "Bank of the Underworld"), which felt indistinguishable from real cash.
2. The next day: Repeat meal ordering and the sound of Mahjong.
The next day, when ordering food at the same address, the delivery guy noticed the sound of mechanical mahjong tiles in the background of the call, seemingly playing on a loop. The delivery process was the same as before, and the number of paper money in the cash box doubled.
3. Third Day: The Boss's Personal Experience of "Yin and Yang Transformation"
The boss personally delivered the meal and stored the cash separately after confirming receipt, but hours later the money turned into paper money for the dead. The foul smell and the pitch-black environment through the door gap raised suspicions, leading to a call to the police.
3. Key Details: Supernatural Evidence Chain
• Status of the corpses: The police broke down the door and found four highly decomposed bodies, forensically determined to have been dead for more than a week, but with undigested food (beef, pho, etc.) left in the stomach, which was digested for only 1-2 days.
• The Mystery of Fingerprints: Two fingerprints of deceased individuals were found on the ghost money, even though they had died long before the order was placed.
• Environmental anomaly: Neighbors reported hearing the sound of mahjong from inside the house a few days before the incident, but no voices, speculating it to be "ghost playing cards."
4. The Conflict Between the Supernatural and Science
1. Scientific Paradox
The forensic expert cannot explain the contradiction between the degree of decay of the body and the contents of the stomach. In a normal body, the digestive system stops functioning, and the food should remain in its original state, rather than appearing in a "postprandial" state.
2. Metaphysical Explanation
• The feng shui master pointed out that the unit's door faces northeast, the "Ghost Gate", where negative energy gathers, causing souls to be trapped in the human realm, mistakenly believing they are still alive.
• There are rumors that a dispute during a mahjong game among four people triggered a vengeful spirit to claim a life, possibly due to a "parallel time and space" entangled yin-yang transaction.
3. Official speculation
The police ultimately closed the case as a "charcoal suicide," stating that the four individuals died in their sleep from carbon monoxide poisoning, but did not explain the contradiction between food digestion and the ghost money fingerprints.
5. Subsequent Impact and Urban Legend Status
• Government stance: The case has been widely reported by the media, and the Hong Kong government has not denied its supernatural nature, tacitly acknowledging it as an "unexplained event."
• Cultural Symbols: The event combines elements such as "ghost money transactions" and "eating after death," becoming a classic case in Hong Kong urban legends that is "scientifically unexplainable," often mentioned alongside the 1953 rumor of "the headless ghost playing mahjong."
• Social Reflection: Some scholars believe that such legends reflect the confusion of citizens regarding the boundaries of life and death, as well as the struggle between "scientific authority" and "traditional superstition" in the process of modernization.
Conclusion:
The "Ghost Restaurant" incident remains a symbolic mystery in Hong Kong's supernatural culture to this day. Its horror stems not only from the supernatural details but also from the integrity of the evidence chain—such as hell money, fingerprints, and stomach contents, all officially recorded. Whether the truth is "yin and yang intertwined" or "collective hallucination," it has become a collective memory carrier of a city’s fear of the unknown.
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