According to SoShiok!

Singapore, December 29, 2008 – SHE was enjoying her lunch at the coffee shop when she suddenly shrieked – a newborn rat had fallen right into her plate of curry rice.

- OH MY GOODNESS!! Is this Singapore? I don’t really believe it!! There seems to be an increasing number of unhygienic cases in Singapore and I alone had encountered once baby cockroach in my mixed vegetable rice!

Problems encountered

1. Confirmed Rats falling from ceiling onto food plates
2. Possible Food source for Rats & Cockroach to sustain life on.
3. Possible sabotages by competitors
4. Possible bad “return the tray” collection location that have left over food for pests.
5. National Environmental Agency closing one eye?
6. Food operators lacking of funds to clean up the mess due to high operation cost & lower income.

Usual Wacky Solutions

1. Open new stalls using fresh “meat” free from the ceiling!!!
2. Open a pet stalls beside the coffee shop, $1 per rat baby.
3. Ask customers to bring umbrella and open them when eating.
4. Ask customers to sit far away from suspected hole on the ceiling.
5. Put warning labels on that table that “additional meat coming your way!”
6. Put a famous cooking recipes on the ceiling and leave the cooking stove on (Ratatouille)
7. Close the coffee shop every Monday for CLEAN SWEEP Pest Control & Cleanliness Wash up & Inspection.
8. Renovate their Coffee Shop and have all possible left over food under heavy cover and make sure there are no spills left unclean for too long.
9. NEA to have a telephone number or email details Sticker everywhere on all tables of the coffee shops as a emergency feed back channel for immediate inspections and fines.

Unfortunately, coffee shops operating cost including rental, utilities, workers, raw materials and lacking of high number of customers may drive some of the stall owners to ignore cleanliness.

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