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.
Source: http://www.amosatlantis.com/2009/02/staff-threatens-nuffnang-bloggers-with-police-hong-kong-cafe-in-plaza-singapura/
