Argiro said the restaurant was cited for not refrigerating food. "I know that there was food on the floor in buckets as well as chicken and beef sitting out at room temperature," Argiro said.
A spokesman for the restaurant, Pei Kun Liu, whose wife is one of the co-owners, said someone entered the building through the back door, creating most of the health violations.
"I don't know who did the damage, but they poured cooking oil all over the place and it leaked out onto the street," Liu said.
However, police remain skeptical.
"If I break in somewhere, I'm going to steal something," Argiro said, adding that there was no evidence of a burglary.
But Liu said the door was open and the bolt was broken off.
"The door was broken and the police saw the door," Liu said.
The restaurant was ordered by the health inspector to destroy all of its food and watched while they did so because of the violations, Liu said.
"That's what the health inspector told us to do, so that's what we did," Liu said.
Since then, the restaurant bought all fresh food and learned a few lessons as well, Liu said.
"We did leave some chicken in the oven, but now we know everything has to be kept in the refrigerator," he said.
The eatery owners say they will now make sure all its food is refrigerated.
"From now on we're going to put everything in the refrigerator," he said. "We're all clean now."
Liu said that yesterday morning he saw signs someone had been by the back door again, possibly trying to get in.
"This morning (Sunday) we found an empty beer bottle by the back door," he said.
The restaurant owners are still worried that this may happen again.
"We may be getting an alarm system," he said.
He also said the restaurant is willing to do whatever the health inspector requires them to do.
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