Man Allegedly Found a Cockroach in Fei Siong Bak Chor Mee & Thought It Was a Mushroom
Image: Facebook (Thomas Tan)
When you order your Bak Chor Mee, you might ask for some extra meat, mushrooms, or meatballs.
But now there may be something else on the menu.
Nasty noodles
Yesterday (4 August 2019), Thomas Tan ordered a bowl of Bak Chor Mee from Fei Siong Jurong West at around 3.45 a.m.
Yes, it’s open 24 hours.
That sounds perfectly normal, except he received his order with a side of cockroach.
Now, this was no tiny, baby cockroach. This was a plump, middle-class cockroach who clearly loathed exercise.
Zoomed in for your pleasure. Image: Facebook (Thomas Tan)
Tan described his unsavoury dining experience in an interview with Mothership.
“I was trying to pick out mushroom from my packet of minced meat noodle (you know mushrooms are stuck at the corner of the packet as always) which I’d brought home to eat but instead of mushroom, I picked out an intact cockroach.”
So, if Tan happened to be glued to his phone that morning, he may have unknowingly eaten a cockroach.
Because it looks so much like a mushroom.
Image: Giphy
Tan threw up immediately after discovering the cockroach. He then informed the noodle stall about the matter.
He also called the police in case a cockroach-related fracas occurred, but the matter was later referred to the Singapore Food Agency.
Repulsed netizens
Some of Tan’s friends wondered how the stall owners had missed the insect while others swore off the meal entirely.
The fact that the cockroach had clearly been dead for a while begs the question: how did it get into the packet of noodles and how had the stall owners missed it?
Stall owners not at fault
While many would have berated the stall owners for making such a mistake, Tan was surprisingly understanding.
“We didn’t blame the stall assistant, after all, he was just doing his job, but we are just sharing so that other consumers are more aware.
“We suspect that the cockroach was probably drowned in the slow cooker which every fishball noodle stall has for their bak chor mee. This could be a lapse which all other fishball noodles stalls make. So I would like to reiterate it is for awareness”, Tan said.
Whatever happened, one thing’s for sure. I’ll be inspecting every mushroom I eat from now on with the intensity of Sherlock Holmes on a murder case.
But then again, cockroaches do have high protein…
When you order your Bak Chor Mee, you might ask for some extra meat, mushrooms, or meatballs.
But now there may be something else on the menu.
Nasty noodles
Yesterday (4 August 2019), Thomas Tan ordered a bowl of Bak Chor Mee from Fei Siong Jurong West at around 3.45 a.m.
Yes, it’s open 24 hours.
That sounds perfectly normal, except he received his order with a side of cockroach.
Now, this was no tiny, baby cockroach. This was a plump, middle-class cockroach who clearly loathed exercise.
Tan described his unsavoury dining experience in an interview with Mothership.
“I was trying to pick out mushroom from my packet of minced meat noodle (you know mushrooms are stuck at the corner of the packet as always) which I’d brought home to eat but instead of mushroom, I picked out an intact cockroach.”
So, if Tan happened to be glued to his phone that morning, he may have unknowingly eaten a cockroach.
Because it looks so much like a mushroom.
Tan threw up immediately after discovering the cockroach. He then informed the noodle stall about the matter.
He also called the police in case a cockroach-related fracas occurred, but the matter was later referred to the Singapore Food Agency.
Repulsed netizens
Some of Tan’s friends wondered how the stall owners had missed the insect while others swore off the meal entirely.
The fact that the cockroach had clearly been dead for a while begs the question: how did it get into the packet of noodles and how had the stall owners missed it?
Stall owners not at fault
While many would have berated the stall owners for making such a mistake, Tan was surprisingly understanding.
“We didn’t blame the stall assistant, after all, he was just doing his job, but we are just sharing so that other consumers are more aware.
“We suspect that the cockroach was probably drowned in the slow cooker which every fishball noodle stall has for their bak chor mee. This could be a lapse which all other fishball noodles stalls make. So I would like to reiterate it is for awareness”, Tan said.
Whatever happened, one thing’s for sure. I’ll be inspecting every mushroom I eat from now on with the intensity of Sherlock Holmes on a murder case.
But then again, cockroaches do have high protein…
