Posted on 10/20/2023 12:54:02 PM PDT by nickcarraway
A diner was left disgusted after digging into fish soup that turned out to be slimy and not fresh with a bad smell.
Things soured further when she went to inform the stall owner, only to be rebuffed.
Stomp contributor Ang said the incident occurred at the fish soup stall at 409 Ang Mo Kio Market And Food Centre on Tuesday (Oct 17), at around 12.30pm.
Ang recounted: "I bought a bowl of Batang fish head soup with rice for $7.10.
"The first piece of fish head was not only unfresh and slimy, it was also a little raw inside and the smell was awful. I took another piece to try and it was the same.
"I waited for the uncle to serve a lady customer and went to inform him when there were no other customers around.
"The uncle said, "You buy fish head is like that, no guarantee (it's) fresh'.
"I told him, 'Yes, that is why I am informing you that it is unfresh.'
"He replied, 'Then next time don't buy fish head.'
"I was not expecting him to refund or do an exchange for me, but he put the blame on me. It's like he's telling his customers that food being unfresh has got nothing to do with him). He was not even polite or apologetic.
"I told him 'no more next time' and left the tray with unfresh fish head at his stall for him to examine. He nastily asked me not to leave it on his table and moved it to the table in front.
"I wouldn't have ordered from the stall if I'd known. The fish was so bad that it could not be eaten at all.
"I was just letting him know that the food was not fresh and instead of acknowledging it and checking the quality, this was how he replied."
You’re eating fish head, and it doesn’t smell right...
Ok.
Fish heads fish heads,
Roly poly fish heads,
Fish heads fish heads,
Eat them up yum
LOL!
When we were dating my husband and I sang that as we walked around the local lake.
Forget it, Jake, it’s Chinatown.
I used to hear it on Dr. Demento.
FYI, the fish soup stall at 409 Ang Mo Kio Market And Food Centre is in Singapore - article seemed to have left out that vital piece of information.
Next time I’m in Singapore, I’ll remember that.
Singapore took all the street vendors off the sidewalks decades ago, and put them in “hawker centers”, which have sanitary facilities. I’m pretty sure I’ve been the Ang Mo Kio center, some thirty years ago.
I only ate beef or pork satay at the stalls in Singapore. Really miss that.
Mods.
Pls put nick in a 1 hour time out for this one.
Thank you.
Lived in Ang Mo Kio in early ‘80s and ate at all those street stalls… so good… even though one time ‘lucked’ into a bad batch of sea hams and 3 days of botulism later… well at least I lost weight!
I’ll ask my wife to prepare that for dinner tonight. Slimy fish head soup. It will need lots of habanero sauce.
Cats love’em.
Wait. A bad batch of fish soup in a street stall is international news now?
This is a really really slow news day.
The old saying is, “a fish rots from the head first”, so that should tell you something.
I went to that one in 2012 - everything I had was great. People say Maxwell is the best center, but I haven't tried it yet. I usually end up at Ion Orchard or one of the Food Republic centers - or Lau Pa Sat if I'm near downtown.
But fish soup isn't on my go-to list. :)
Sea hams?
I knew a “rotten fish head soup denier” would show up!
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