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FOOD POISONING
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Business at the popular Ba Shu Ren Jia steamboat restaurant has dropped by close to 50 per cent since reports of food poisoning surfaced. -- ST PHOTO: CHEW SENG KIM
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<!-- START OF : div id="storytext"--><!-- more than 4 paragraphs -->ANOTHER three patrons who ate at Ba Shu Ren Jia steamboat restaurant last week have come down with food poisoning.
This brings the total number of those affected after eating at the Sichuan restaurant located at 233, Geylang Lorong 9 to 17.
Like the previous batch, the latest three diners to fall ill ate at the restaurant either on Thursday or Friday.
They developed symptoms of food poisoning - vomiting, diarrhoea and abdominal pain - over the long weekend.
Two of the 17 had to be hospitalised but they have been discharged.
A spokesman for the restaurant said that it had assured the two that it would pay their medical charges if it was found to be responsible for the poisoning.
Thirteen food handlers from the steamboat restaurant are undergoing screening at the Communicable Disease Centre.
No update on their condition or the cause of the poisoning is available yet.
Officers from the Ministry of Health and National Environment Agency
had checked the the premises of the restaurant and found no hygiene lapses, said the ministry.
The restaurant is still open, though the operator has been told to advise patrons to cook the food in the steamboat thoroughly before eating.
But business has dropped by close to 50 per cent at the popular restaurant since reports of food poisoning surfaced, according to its spokesman Joyce Yuan.
At 6.30pm yesterday, there were fewer than 10 diners in the 100-seat eatery, with the number of diners increasing to 20 about two hours later.
One of them was Mr Chu Ming Jie, 23.
Said the customer service agent: 'I will continue to visit the restaurant as it is one of the best I've tried. We just have to make sure the food is well-cooked.'
The restaurant is still contacting diners who fell ill.
Said Ms Yuan: 'We just hope that all our affected customers will recover soon, and for things to go back to normal as soon as possible.'
The restaurant's owner was not present last night.
LEOW SI WAN
More to cum if u insist in rebelling against my family! *chey*
FOOD POISONING
</TR><!-- headline one : start --><TR>Three more ill after steamboat meal
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Business at the popular Ba Shu Ren Jia steamboat restaurant has dropped by close to 50 per cent since reports of food poisoning surfaced. -- ST PHOTO: CHEW SENG KIM
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<!-- START OF : div id="storytext"--><!-- more than 4 paragraphs -->ANOTHER three patrons who ate at Ba Shu Ren Jia steamboat restaurant last week have come down with food poisoning.
This brings the total number of those affected after eating at the Sichuan restaurant located at 233, Geylang Lorong 9 to 17.
Like the previous batch, the latest three diners to fall ill ate at the restaurant either on Thursday or Friday.
They developed symptoms of food poisoning - vomiting, diarrhoea and abdominal pain - over the long weekend.
Two of the 17 had to be hospitalised but they have been discharged.
A spokesman for the restaurant said that it had assured the two that it would pay their medical charges if it was found to be responsible for the poisoning.
Thirteen food handlers from the steamboat restaurant are undergoing screening at the Communicable Disease Centre.
No update on their condition or the cause of the poisoning is available yet.
Officers from the Ministry of Health and National Environment Agency
had checked the the premises of the restaurant and found no hygiene lapses, said the ministry.
The restaurant is still open, though the operator has been told to advise patrons to cook the food in the steamboat thoroughly before eating.
But business has dropped by close to 50 per cent at the popular restaurant since reports of food poisoning surfaced, according to its spokesman Joyce Yuan.
At 6.30pm yesterday, there were fewer than 10 diners in the 100-seat eatery, with the number of diners increasing to 20 about two hours later.
One of them was Mr Chu Ming Jie, 23.
Said the customer service agent: 'I will continue to visit the restaurant as it is one of the best I've tried. We just have to make sure the food is well-cooked.'
The restaurant is still contacting diners who fell ill.
Said Ms Yuan: 'We just hope that all our affected customers will recover soon, and for things to go back to normal as soon as possible.'
The restaurant's owner was not present last night.
LEOW SI WAN
More to cum if u insist in rebelling against my family! *chey*
