We’re in Phase 2 of the country’s safe reopening amid the Covid-19 outbreak, and Singaporeans have finally returned to their natural habitat: eateries.
There’s nothing quite like having a meal outdoors with your friends after months of being cooped up in your house.
The only problem with eating outside is that you can’t control what goes into your meal, which is why some diners have found cockroaches in their noodles and fingernails in their bubble tea.
Fortunately, this couple didn’t get a cockroach or fingernail with their meal. They just found some broken glass.
Man Allegedly Found ‘Broken Glass’ in Encik Tan’s Claypot Rice
A couple discovered their bowl of claypot rice had some unwanted ingredients when they were dining at Encik Tan’s Compass One outlet on 3 August.
The man, Lim, detailed the incident in an interview with Stomp.
“Before consuming the claypot rice, my wife stirred the rice to mix the dark soya sauce evenly,” Lim said.
As she was doing so, she found a strange looking object in her food. Upon examining it, she was horrified to discover it was a “piece of sharp, broken glass”.
As Lim said, if his wife was not observant, she could have consumed the foreign object.
“And if it was really glass, then her tongue and mouth would not be spared”, he said.
According to Lim, when the couple notified the supervisor of the restaurant, the man claimed it was a piece of plastic, without even touching or feeling the object.
Oh yes, plastic in my claypot rice is absolutely fine and dandy. My apologies for being difficult.
But it only gets worse.
Lim said while he was speaking to the supervisor, another customer who ordered their claypot rice also claimed to find “a glass-like particle in his food.”
“We left Encik Tan after getting a refund, and about an hour later when we walked past, we noticed that they were still selling claypot rice”, Lim said.
“I still cannot imagine what would happen if that glass-like object was consumed.”
Company’s Response
Shockingly, claiming that the particle was plastic wasn’t enough to appease diners, which is why they responded to queries from Stomp.
A spokesman for Fei Siong Group, who owns Encik Tan, said: “At Fei Siong, we strive to provide only the best quality food to our customers.
“Upon receiving the feedback from the customer, we immediately conducted our investigations and discarded the existing batch of rice that was used.
“A new batch of rice was then checked and cleared for consumption.
“We have also highlighted this incident to our rice supplier.”
The group said it would continue to “monitor and investigate further if there is other feedback that comes in.”
Maybe home-cooked food isn’t so bad after all?
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