A CHINESE restaurant in a Brit tourist hotspot has been caught deceptively selling street pigeons as “roasted duck” to unsuspecting diners.

The Jin Gu restaurant in Madrid, Spain, was forced to close after cops raided the vile site last month and made the sickening discoveries.

Vile footage shows bags filled with dead birds alongside bowls of plucked and what looks to be deep-fried pigeons – ready to be served to customers as roasted duck, The Spanish Eye reports.

After analysing samples of the meat and remains found at the site, authorities were able to determine it as the street bird.

The restaurant was also found to have eight fault freezers containing bags of unlabelled and undated meat and fish.

Cockroaches were discovered in the nauseating kitchen too, as well as rat traps on the floor, the news site added.

In another clip, strips of meat are captured hanging from clothes horses in the stomach-churning discovery.

In the storage areas of the disgusting site, there were no thermometers to measure temperatures, with the cookware used to make unassuming customers’ food rusted and dirty.

Prohibited and illegal items were also discovered alongside the pigeons, like sea cucumbers, which are protected by marine laws.

A hidden storage room was unveiled by cops behind a shelf in the restaurant’s disabled toilet, which wasn’t listed on the business’ licence.

The revolting restaurant was forced to close, with its owner now being investigated for alleged public health crimes after the shocking discoveries.

In other news, one of Japan’s biggest restaurant chains was forced to close for deep cleaning after two horror incidents where customers found pests in their food.

One of the unlucky eaters found a rat in their meal from Sukiya, known for its beef-on-rice dishes.

The chain announced the temporary closure after an insect – which has been widely reported to have been a cockroach – was discovered by a horrified customer.

After the creature was discovered by a customer in Tokyo, the chain announced a more drastic measure of closure.

The manager apologised to the customer and gave them a refund, Sukiya said.

Last month, it admitted that a rat had been found in a bowl of miso soup in January.

Sukiya, with over 2,000 restaurants, had most of its sites closed between 31 March and 4 April to “prevent external intrusion and internal infestation of pests and vermin”.

In a statement, it apologised for the “great inconvenience and concern caused” after the nauseating finds.

Rumours had been swirling online over the rat miso soup before Sukiya had to confess that the rodent had in fact been found – but “before it was eaten”.

Sukiya is part of Zensho Holdings – a company that owns various restaurant chains across Japan.