In a reddit post, a netizen who we believe is a student at the National University of Singapore (NUS) claimed that he or she had gotten food poisoning after consuming food from NUS Utown Finefood’s Japanese and Korean stall.

The netizen also further mentions that he or she was turned away by the food vendor after voicing out his or her concerns.

Here is what the post says

Dear fellow NUS students,

I want to share a food poisoning experience and being turned away by the food vendor unreasonably in NUS on the 31st of October, 2023, at the NUS Utown Finefood Japanese and Korean stall. The purpose of this post is to raise awareness about this issue and request your support and insights. I’m also looking for other victims who suffered from food poisoning from Finefood Japanese and Korean stalls. If there’s anything I can do to defend myself, please share it with me and it would be greatly appreciated.

Here’s what happened: On the evening of September 12th, at 7:23 pm, I ordered a Bibimbap rice dish from this stall. Unfortunately, within an hour, I experienced severe symptoms, including cold sweats, a pounding headache, dizziness, and a racing heart rate. The situation escalated, and by 8:45 pm, I found myself vomiting relentlessly. It’s crucial to note that during this time, I had consumed food exclusively from the Finefood stall.

This incident isn’t an isolated case. I firmly believe that the chicken dishes served at this establishment disregard basic sanitation principles. Not only does this pose health risks to customers, but it also wastes their time. I ended up enduring a distressing experience, spending over two hours in the restroom as I vomited repeatedly.

What’s even more concerning is that this is the second time I’ve suffered from food safety issues at this stall. Unfortunately, I’m not alone in this; two more individuals came to me within a month after I shared my experience on a forum, reporting their own foodborne illnesses after dining there. Many comments on my post indicated that more people have friends who experienced similar issues. It’s important to highlight that these incidents aren’t limited to these 2 or 3 students, I believe that there are more who suffered from the same stall.

Regrettably, the voices of affected individuals, including mine, have largely gone unheard. NUS provided everyone with a generic response, using the same template, and took no concrete actions to address the problem.

I understand that just a few cases happening here and there over a month can’t be judged as food poisoning, but I believe it at least indicates the food may not be hygienic. And what happened next is really triggering me.

The stall’s owner seems to be aware of my complaints and recognizes my face. When I walked into Finefood together with my friend, I went to place an order at some other stall and my friend wanted to get from the Korean stall. They then refused to offer food to my friend who is also a NUS student saying that I keep accusing their food for not being hygienic. No matter your food is clean or not, I complained or not, you should not have the right to refuse my friend from getting the food. Moreover, you are a food vendor operating in a school. They’ve then insensitively suggested that it’s my stomach that is the issue, rather than addressing food preparation concerns. The vendor even baselessly accused my friend of trying to fake a food poisoning incident. This behavior is not only unacceptable but also insulting, stereotyping, and humiliating.

I tried writing to the school and contacted the Finefood manager but they did not take my concerns seriously. I believe many of you realize that food hygiene is a problem in NUS. For our collective good, I genuinely seek your support and insights on this matter, hoping more can voice out together with me if you have suffered from this stall before.

These experiences have caused significant stress, anxiety, and even panic attacks. We’ve been treated rudely and unfairly, which isn’t the service standard we should expect, especially within the NUS community.

As NUS students, we invest a significant amount of money in our education, and it’s disheartening that we can’t choose our meals safely. NUS needs to take a more proactive role in protecting its students and addressing these concerns, as it seems the institution hasn’t taken adequate action despite multiple reports of similar incidents.

I encourage you to share your thoughts and experiences. Let’s work together to ensure the health and well-being of NUS students are a top priority. All the information I’ve shared in this post is factual, and I’m more than willing to provide further details such as the voice record of me being turned away. My sincere hope is that we can collectively raise awareness and push for a resolution.

Reddit post

I was on a first date with a guy after being arranged by a friend, and it was the worst date I’ve ever been on in my life.

He told me that he was from a “top JC” and went on to boast how his father has a PhD and they are living in a Good Class Bungalow.

He said that he want to save $1m by the age of 30 and that he is currently working in a bank.

I asked him what is a Good Class Bungalow and he said “you don’t know meh?” that oh it’s a “high SES” thing, not many people know.

He was also damn rude to the servers where we were having our meal, getting his attention by shouting “HELLO?!” without saying please or thank you or anything.

He asked me what my parents worked as and I said my mother was a housewife and my dad was a taxi driver.

He then asked me if I was studying my degree to get out of poverty (I’m pursuing my degree at the moment), and I said no, we are not poor. My mother works part time and I can take care of myself.

He then went on to say how can that be? taxi driver don’t earn much money.

I told him not to stereotype other people without knowing anything.

After the meal (I paid for my own share), he asked if he could send me home in his Lamborghini, to which I rejected him and said I’ll just take the MRT.

He then said “you probably have never sat inside a Lamborghini before cause you’re poor”, to which i got angry and told him that his car clearly belongs to his father.

“Why, you got no money to buy your own car is it. You think your father’s car gonna impress me?”

He then went on to say that he could probably hire my father to be his personal driver, and then he called me a “gold digging b—-“.

I just walked away from that ahole, trying my hardest not to slap him in the face.

I don’t think I will be dating again, for a long while.

Editor’s note:

I (35M) have been married with my wife (30F) for around three years.

We got to know each other a few years before our marriage via a dating app, she is from the Philippines and was working in the hospitality industry and I am a locally born and bred Malay.

Wife told me that she was pregnant

Last year, my wife told me that she was pregnant and I was over the moon.

I had always wanted to have a child and my parents were also looking forward to their grandchildren.

What would have been a happy ending turned out to be something which kept me suspicious for the longest time.

Her pregnancy soon descended into me suspecting that my wife had cheated on me

Soon after, my daughter was born.

As I gazed at my newborn daughter, I felt a deep sense of betrayal. For the first time in my life, I suspected my wife had cheated on me.

It all began when I noticed how different our daughter’s complexion appeared compared to mine and my wife’s.

Our daughter was fair, while my wife and I are both dark-skinned. We both come from Filipino and Malay cultures, so I was sure our baby should have taken after us.

But instead she was fair, and my suspicion grew.

I confronted her and found out the truth

I decided to confront my wife about my suspicions, but she denied any involvement with anyone else. I didn’t know what to think or believe. How could this have happened?

My wife had been working as a server at a high-class bar in Singapore. I had imagined the worst possible scenario—that she had been hanging around rich men and had cheated on me. I was so angry and hurt.

I was determined to find out the truth, so I began to investigate. After some digging, I discovered that one of the men she served at her workplace was quite chummy with her.

While I initially brushed it off as her just entertaining him for the sake of not offending her customers, it didn’t seem like it after more observation.

I caught him sending her home and them kissing right under my block eventually.

It was then that I finally began to understand what had happened. My wife had been having an affair with this man. The realization hurt more than I ever imagined, and I felt so betrayed. I wanted to confront her, but I was also afraid of what might happen if I did.

Decided to let it go to save our marriage

In the end, I chose to forgive her. I also wanted to save our marriage, and I knew that confronting her would only push her away.

So I made the decision to keep my suspicions to myself and look past it. I would never forget what had happened, but I wanted to move on.

I’m still not sure if I made the right choice, but I’m trying to make the best of the situation.

Me (25F) and my boyfriend (30M) got into a fight because he said he doesn’t want to hear about my emotional baggage

So I was a run away at 18 and I’ve been struggling and moving through things to build a life for myself.

Just recently I saw my dad just walking on the street and it triggered me for some reason and I came home crying my eyes out for the night.

My bf came home and said to me how I shouldn’t be talking like this, how I shouldn’t be acting like this because nobody cares, people will just laugh at me and my situation and that I should be stronger and work harder and then complained about how the dishes and laundry weren’t done.

This is my first relationship I’ve been in and I just want to know if this is normal what he said to me.

Netizens’ comments

• let me repeat it for the people in the back: Is this the way you WANT to be treated? Then who cares if it’s “normal”
• Not at all normal. Really sounds messed up.
• No, not normal. You should be able to expect him to be supportive.

To local women, I’d really like to know how in today’s culture, women are disadvantaged in SG? Cause to me, it seems that being a girl is more advantageous in SG than being a guy. Let’s list a few examples ya.

NS – the BIG one. For all the talk about gender equality by feminists, this is an area that most local women would be happy not being equal in. Meanwhile, guys have to sacrifice 2 years of their prime and the opportunity cost is immense with regards to potential income earned, career progression, relationships, etc. I completely disagree with what Ng Eng Hen said recently in Parliament about compulsory enlistment for women.

Dating – Once again, women talk about equal rights but a lot of them (I didn’t say ‘all’) would happily let the guy pay for all their dates (even if they are earning a similar amount or higher), plan everything for vday and anniversary, be the one to propose, etc while not putting in as much effort. I mean think abt it, if not for the women who want a picture perfect vday celebration of a rose bouquet and candle-lit dinner, most men wouldn’t even care to rmb 14 Feb.

Counter argument to this is that perhaps women need to put in more effort after marriage, especially when children come into the picture. But even then, it’s no denying that women aren’t exactly helping themselves because a lot of local women still adhere to traditional views of gender.

Workplace – the gender pay gap is bull pls.. Justifiably, if you’re the same level as a male colleague doing the same job but getting paid a bit lesser, pls note my 1st point abt local guys having to sacrifice 2 years of their life to NS, whether willingly or otherwise…

And for those who say that not enough females are represented in STEM jobs, erm… maybe do consider that perhaps in the 1st place not as many women are entering these fields compared to men?

A trend I notice at the workplace is how for the sake of diversity, a woman is selected for a managerial position even though there is a more qualified man for the role. I won’t have an issue with this if both the man and woman are similarly qualified, but if the man happens to be more qualified, shouldn’t merit/expertise for the job take priority compared to trying to score diversity points in your annual report?

You may call me bitter (and yes I do admit partly that I’m bitter abt this) but at the end of the day, some of the stuff I say do have grains of truth in them. Some of you may like to bring up how the majority of sexual assault and domestic violence cases are women, but I’d argue that these are not exactly things happening at a systematic level compared to the stuff I’ve mentioned.