A restaurant worker in eastern China was captured throwing a bone back into a pan of lamb soup after biting the meat off of it.

The clip, filmed in the city of Yancheng in Jiangsu Province on December 9, shows a woman gnawing at the bone in front of a restaurant.

However, she suddenly turned around and threw the bone that she took out from her mouth into a pan.

According to reports, the employee has been fired and the restaurant was forced to suspend for rectification.