Staff threatens Nuffnang bloggers with police
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Staff threatens Nuffnang bloggers with police (Hong Kong Cafe in Plaza Singapura)
Left to right: Hong Peng, Alton, Andy, Ying Zi, Yi Ling, and myself
It has been quite some time since our last Nuffnang bloggers’ gathering on 30 December, 2008. Nevertheless, we still managed to meet up 2 months later at the same location - Plaza Singapura.
Thanks to Yi Ling for organizing the outing, and our fellow bloggers for joining!
The bloggers met at around 12pm on Friday, 20 December. Ying Zi and myself only joined them at Starbucks Coffee at around 7pm. There were a few other bloggers who went off earlier before the both of us arrived.
We had a chit chat session for about an hour and went to Xin Wang Hong Kong Cafe for dinner. Well, it was the first time I dined there. It seemed like the place was quite popular as it was crowded with patrons.
We placed our individual orders and a few other side dishes like Dim sum (a Chinese cuisine which involves a wide range of light dishes).
We waited for around 10 minutes for our food to come. And when it finally did, disaster was about to unfold…
Please read the following quote from http://singaporeseen.stomp.com.sg/singaporeseen/viewContent.jsp?id=58409:
The standard of both food and service at Xin Wang Hong Kong Café in Plaza Singapura were unsatisfactory, says STOMPer Yi Ling, who went there to dine last Friday (20 Feb).
This STOMPer says:
“This is regarding Xin Wang Hong Kong Cafe in Plaza Singapura. I was there with 5 other people on 20 Feb at 7.30pm.
“Firstly, I would like to feedback regarding the food. I ordered the black pepper chicken chop with fries. The dish was very salty. I got my friends to try it out and they all felt the same. I rejected the entire dish. One of the staff in black, a male, waived the charge.
“The next few dishes were dim sums - siew mai, har gao, spring roll, and fried dumpling. I am a fond dim sum eater and the standard of their dim sums was disappointing. The dim sum was not fragrant enough. The siew mai was dry and hard. The har gao was wet and soggy. The stuffing in the spring rolls and fried dumplings were also soggy.
“I am sad to say that I have eaten better dim sums in coffee shops.
“I want to feedback regarding the service as well. When the food was delivered, one of the staff wearing black, literally threw the food at us. When everyone was about done, I went up to the manager to give my feedback for the first time. The second time was while we were leaving.
“I was shocked by her attitude. She had poor listening skills and seemed unable to handle such a situation. She was easily distracted and hardly focused on the person speaking, which I found rude. Her apology was insincere from the tone of it and it was soft.
“We stood at a corner discussing our unpleasant experience, when we saw one of the staff taking a picture of us. One of us was taking a picture of the signboard, yet the manager who saw it demanded to see the camera and was very rude when asking for it.
“He even threatened to call the police, which of course he did not in the end. Another female staff came out when she saw the commotion and used her index finger to point at us, which was rude as well.
“We were not doing anything wrong. They could have requested for the camera nicely and we would have complied. Why the hostility? This made us wonder if the staff were properly trained to handle such situations.”
Moral of the story
Please think twice before you eat at Hong Kong Cafe in Plaza Singapura in the future. Any of the staff or managers there may just threaten to call the police if you make a complain that the food or service is unsatisfactory.
The funny part is, such idiots only know how to threaten. As to whether they have the guts to call the police or not, is a different matter. I think that people should think twice before using the police as their shield. It is as if the police are going to side them or anything. Worse still, these people are actually nothing but pieces of shit.
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Why is this in Speaker's Corner?
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they might as well serve sh%t as food since they are so sh5tty
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all these bloggers oso not famous.
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U wan good dim sum go somwhere else, brainless right?
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I've been there tons of times, and even other outlets too and this is a first.
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u want more traffic to your blog say la
tsk nuffnangers..
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Originally posted by Master -_-:
u want more traffic to your blog say la
tsk nuffnangers..
no nid sexpose lar
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Xinwang is overpriced and serves crappy food. I dunno why so many people like to eat it. Wan Chai is much better.
Similarly, I find Thaiexpress overpriced too...same management...
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lol
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Originally posted by Poh Ah Pak:
Why is this in Speaker's Corner?
Ya lo ... I thought its somewhat related to the speaker corner proposed outing .....Thought they got caught for doing something similar ..
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Yeah, I stopped eating at Xin Wang for a while already. The standard of food there got crappier and crappier as more and more PRCs started working there. Couldn't help but note possible correlation.
Same deal happened to Cafe Cartel as well...
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If I was a betting man or woman, I'd bet these customers were really fucking rude to begin with.
Just my 2 sen.