A netizen recently shared her bad experience of buying “cai fan” or chinese economical rice from a stall allegedly at 301 Ubi Food house.

She went there to order her lunch and wanted to order hotdogs but she did not know how to say it in Mandarin and therefore used English to relay her order.

However, she alleged that the Vietnamese stall helper working there scolded her for using English because she does not know English.

It left the netizen feeling disgusted because she feels that they should not come to Singapore to work if they do not know English.

Here is her post

“Wanting to order Chinese economical rice for lunch. I do not know how to pronounce hotdog in Chinese so I speak English to order.

The vietnamese stall helper scolded me for speaking English and say she doesn’t know English. What for coming here to work if she doesn’t know English. I left with a disgusted face and I brought lunch from another stall.”

Image source: Kirene Lingling Facebook

There have been many netizens complaining about receiving calls or emails from various banks that ask for personal information such as passwords or even credit card information.

A netizen received a Whatsapp call by a caller that starts with +1 which is the country code for the USA, Canada and secondly if the bank is real why would they call you on Whatsapp and from overseas.

A few netizens who saw the post stated that they have similar encounters and warn others to be careful and not too trusting.

“Caller claimed to be from DBS bank Chinese customer service. I spoke in English and he hung up.”

Calling an all-out war against scammers

For those who receive such scam calls, if u are free please play along with them and drain their energy. Also, scammers have lesser time to cheat others

A netizen shared a story on how she was cheated by a furniture store on how she received the wrong goods and the shop owner went MIA after the delivery of the goods.

Here is her story:

Hi, I just want to share my story now at #megahome (615 Toa Payoh Lorong 4). I bought the bed and wardrobe there on 16/01/21 and requested for delivery on 05/15/21

But the item they delivered was wrong with the item I ordered. I contact the seller then he asked me to use the bed first and will make a new one change for me but till now they don’t have any news.

No one gives me the answer on when they will deliver. They used the reason because covid could not send the stock to Singapore. I understand a lot of Covid effects but they are open for business can’t use this excuse to reply to customers.

and I’ve also waited for 4 months without any news from them. I contacted them again and asked to return it but they also never replied to me. After they took the money from the customer didn’t care how long the customer needs to wait.

I share this so it does not happen to others everyone, be careful if planning to buy furniture at MEGA HOME

A man and a woman had a dispute at a coffee shop located in Toa Payoh and the man went home to retrieve a knife before returning to threaten the woman with his weapon.

The incident happened on Saturday (Aug 21) at Toa Payoh Lorong 4 Block 66 (New Century Food House).

It is believed that the man was intoxicated when the incident happened as the man was drinking at the coffee shop before the argument occurred. During the argument, the man threw his beer glass and smashed it to the ground.

Shin Min Daily News reported that The woman who was in the midst of the dispute pushed the man to the ground. The man then shouted and said “You wait” and he leaves the location to retrieve a knife.

He return later with the knife and started to take off his shirt, members of the public grabbed the man and stopped him.

The Police was eventually alerted and the man was placed under arrest.

Featured image adapted from Shin Min Daily News on Facebook.