Posted: December 21st, 2009 - 10:35am by Doug Powell

Here’s the video of rats in a Chinatown market that sparked the story in the Honolulu Advertiser that Chapman just blogged about.

The video sparked a Department of Health inspection of Pacing's, which was cited for a violation.

The Geller rat video has been seen by tens of thousands of people, and has spurred some to stop coming to Chinatown, according to shop owners, who say business has decreased — by 30 to 50 percent or more — over the last weeks.

Last year, Sekiya's Restaurant in Kaimukí closed its doors for days and dumped all its food after an E. coli outbreak, which sickened seven.