Police are looking for suspects in an assault on a server at a downtown Palo Alto noodle bar that left her pulling noodles and bean sprouts from her face.
The victim reported that she was bringing a bowl of noodle soup out of the kitchen of Zao Noodle Bar on University Avenue at about 8 p.m. Tuesday when she was accosted by three women she had recently met at a party in San Jose. According to Palo Alto police Agent Dan Ryan, one of the women accused the victim of stealing $100 from her purse and demanded that she return the money.
“They were saying things like, ‘I’m going to get you,’ and ‘I know where you live,'” Ryan said.
The confrontation boiled over when one of the assailants reached into the bowl of hot soup the waitress was holding, grabbed the noodles and flung them in her face, Ryan said. The suspects then fled the scene.
Though stung by the hot and spicy broth, the victim was not seriously hurt, Ryan said. “She just said her face burned from the red hot chili peppers.”
Finding the perpetrators may prove difficult, Ryan added, because the victim knew only one by first name.
