A dead rat was found decomposing in the kitchen of a popular sushi restaurant given a damning one-star food hygiene rating. Council inspectors initially discovered fresh rodent faeces at Happy Samurai in Canterbury and ordered bosses to immediately stop service. But having ordered an overnight deep-clean, they made the more grizzly discovery beneath sink pipework after returning to the Butchery Lane restaurant the next day. Inspectors say the rodent was “not recently dead”, while more droppings were also present. An initial voluntary closure notice was served on February 15 for the “urgent” cl…