Perth restaurant under fire for racist themed burger
A Perth burger restaurant has come under fire for naming one of its menu items 'The Ching Chong'.
On Saturday a woman shared a picture of the menu item from Johnny’s Burgers to a Facebook group after she noticed the controversial name. She wrote 'Burger restaurant in Perth is using racist names for their burgers.'
The $13.90 burger is advertised as an 'Asian burger with a BITE', and has beef patty, fried egg, sriracha hot sauce with mayonnaise, lettuce, tomato and coriander.
The restaurant owner, Johnny Wong has been previously slammed over this burger name and on a prior occasion has written on social media that the burger was inspired by his Malaysian roots.
Unfortunately, many believe that his background doesn’t justify using such an offensive term.
“It's gross. He's taking advantage of his own people in order to sell a burger. It just encourages other people to use casual racism towards us,” one user commented.
Another Facebook user who was of Laotian background said they didn’t take offence to the name but could understand that others would.
“I'm half Laos and I don't find it offensive (each to their own obviously!) as the owner is also Asian himself but he definitely could've used a different word,” they wrote.
Irit Jackson, 5th October 2021
