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Restaurant owner ‘heartbroken’ after vegetable garden destroyed
The owner of Sky Kong Kong was shocked to find her vegetable garden outside her restaurant had been destroyed on Wednesday morning.
Owner and chef, Wizzy Chung, had been growing herbs, flowers and vegetables from small pots in front of her tucked away restaurant in Haymarket Walk by the Bearpit.
But she arrived at her restaurant on Wednesday morning to find soil from all of the pots overturned into one trough, and all her produce destroyed.
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All the soil from each pot outside Wizzy’s restaurant had been tipped into one – photo: Mia Vines Booth
Wizzy had been growing lettuces, courgettes, beans, flowers and herbs from her small plot outside her restaurant – photo: Wizzy Chung
Wizzy, who has run the popular Korean restaurant for nine years, said she was “heartbroken” by what had happened.
“I can’t imagine who would destroy the flowers and beautiful herbs. Who could do such a thing?
“Everyone who passes this restaurant is smiling, and I even had a homeless person who was helping me with the garden.”
Wizzy originally kept the pots inside her restaurant, but had put them outside four months ago so they could get more sunlight.
Now, in the summer months, most of the produce was clearly fully grown and ready to harvest.
Wizzy said she was confused by why someone would target a vegetable garden, and had checked the CCTV but it was too dark to see anything.
Confusingly, whoever had vandalised her plants had also neatly placed each of the empty pots on top of each other after emptying them.
“In nine years, I’ve never had a problem like this before,” she said. “I’ve worked so hard on this.
“I guess some people are angry and not in their right mind. I can’t see anyone in their right mind doing a thing like this.”
Wizzy closed her restaurant on Wednesday after she discovered what had happened, but hopes to reopen the next day.
Main photo: Mia Vines Booth
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