A shisha cafe has induced huge controversy after it offered shisha to customers with a living goldfish inside its water basin.

Ta5t Cafe in Cairo, Egypt has been criticised for using a live fish to market a new type of shisha, According to newspaper Youm7, a customer said the goldfish dies after the consumer takes a few puffs of the shisha.

The pictures of the goldfish in the shisha were shared on the Facebook page of Salma El-Tabakh who wrote, "One of the ugliest things I have ever seen in my life."