India, March 24 -- A Shanghai restaurant has come under fire for selling a half-chicken dish priced at 480 yuan ( Rs.5,500), justifying the steep cost by claiming the bird was raised on classical music and fed milk, reported the South China Morning Post.

On March 14, a businessman and influencer with 270,000 followers posted a video of his visit to the Shanghai Club restaurant, where he was shocked by the price of the dish. He questioned the staff about the chicken's background, jokingly asking if it was raised "listening to music and drinking milk." The restaurant staff confirmed his assumption, adding that the chicken was a rare breed known as "sunflower chicken," sourced exclusively from a farm in Guangdong province.

According to the...