Chaos breaks out at hawker centre after customer refuse to pick up his food at self-s

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CHAOS BREAKS OUT AT HAWKER CENTRE AFTER CUSTOMER REFUSE TO PICK UP HIS FOOD AT SELF-SERVICE STALL

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11 Oct 2014 - 8:27pm








A 62-year-old customer flew into a rage at a hawker centre in Bedok on Monday evening (Oct 6), after being told that his noodles would not be brought to his table.

This led to an argument with the seller at Zhong Xing Ban Mian, a self-service stall at Block 207, New Upper Changi Road, near Bedok Interchange.

According to a report on The New Paper, their spat soon turned violent when the customer smashed a bottle and threatened the seller, who retaliated by splashing him with hot soup.

In the ensuing chaos, someone started waving a chopper, frightening other diners in the hawker centre.

Shin Min Daily News identified the seller as a 38-year-old man known only as Mr Yang.

His father said that his son had merely asked the customer to collect his food from the stall, which sells handmade noodles.

But the man started scolding Mr Yang and knocked over a fan in the stall.

Mr Yang's father told the evening Chinese language daily: "Accompanied by three or four of his friends, the customer picked up a bottle, smashed it and walked towards my son."

A diner who witnessed the altercation told Shin Min that she then saw Mr Yang splashing hot soup on the customer.
Wanting to be known only as Ms Jenny, she said: "Somebody then picked up a chopper and waved it towards the older man. It gave many of the diners here a scare."

The police said yesterday that they received a call about the incident at around 8.30pm on Monday.
Mr Yang and the customer were arrested for criminal intimidation. The police are investigating.






A check on 10 stalls at the hawker centre revealed that almost all of them are self-service.

Three stallholders, who had heard about the incident but declined to give their names, felt that the customer was being unreasonable.
One of them told TNP: "I think the customer was very unreasonable. My stall is also self-service. But if I'm not busy and the customer sits nearby, I may serve him.
"It is common for stalls in hawker centres to be self-service. If you don't like this, then go to a restaurant."


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