SINGAPORE: A Facebook user was shocked to be charged S$12.50 for just two cups of tea at a Changi Airport Terminal 1 restaurant. In addition to the high price, he was also unhappy with the service at the eatery.
A netizen who goes by Huax Liu posted a photo on the COMPLAINT SINGAPORE Facebook page on Friday (Nov 24) of two drinks, along with the receipt from Anjappar, an Indian food restaurant. The receipt shows he was charged S$4.50 for tea and S$6 for iced tea. With GST and service charge, the bill came out to S$12.50.
He acknowledged that the high price may be because the restaurant is located at Changi Airport, where, like other airports across the globe, prices may be considerably higher than in other places. But besides the high price, he wrote that “the drink is beyond horrible.”
As it turns out, he was initially even served the wrong drink. He wrote that he “repeated 10 times at the counter for 1x teh o + 1x teh o ice instead I received teh ????”
Teh O is hot tea without milk but with sugar, and Teh O Ice is, as the name says, the iced version. However, he did not appear to recognize what kind of tea he was served.
He found himself “unable to communicate with staff” but added that “thankfully he really tried his best to redo the drink.” Nevertheless, the drink he received “was just overly thick & bitter.”
“For such price i can easily get a meal at Burger King or even better coffee at Starbucks!!!” the Facebook user wrote.
Addressing the restaurant he tagged in his post, he appealed to them to “Please do something about it… sadly to say I will not visit again.”
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The Independent Singapore has contacted Huax Liu and Anjappar Restaurant for further updates or comments.
Over the past year, many netizens have complained about higher prices of food and drinks—with even kopi and teh that did not use to cost much suddenly shooting up in price.
In September, one customer expressed surprise after being charged S$8 for 2 cups of Teh O Peng at Sentosa Hawker Centre, although many netizens pointed out that the venue is known to be pricey.
Last month, a café customer asked why a ‘simple cup of kopi o kosong’ costs S$3, and in March, another was shocked at the price tag of S$2 for Neskopi, especially since it had only been $1.50 the week before. /TISG
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