Magistrates' Court that his restaurant sold a customer an egg roll with a dead cockroach inside it.

Kent Fong pleaded guilty to one count of possession of an egg roll that was unfit for human consumption on May 30.

Crown counsel Jo-Dina Pearman said that an employee of the Bank of Bermuda bought two egg rolls from the restaurant and gave one of them to a co-worker on her return to work.

The co-worker opened the foil and began to eat it. She had already eaten two thirds of the egg roll when she saw an object inside that she thought was a cockroach.

Health department officials collected the remnants of the egg roll and confirmed her suspicions.

Saul Froomkin who appeared on behalf of the New Queen Restaurant, said Mr.

Fong had operated a restaurant in Bermuda for 45 years and never had any problems with the Health Department in that time.

He said the New Queen sells between 200 and 300 egg rolls per day and the incident in question was an isolated case that will not be repeated.

Senior Magistrate Will Francis said that the maximum fine under the law was $168 but he said that figure seemed to be a bit low given the unpleasant nature of the customer's experience.

Mr. Francis then imposed a fine of $150.