KF Seetoh says to understand the real problems, “come talk to me and those really struggling on the ground”

In a rather pointed Facebook post on Tuesday (Feb 22), Makansutra founder wrote that the higher-ups should talk to him and those “really struggling on the ground” in order to find out about actual problems plaguing people.

Mr Seetoh, an advocate for all things hawker, wrote about the ironies happening in society – people were given public money as ‘red packets’ and then told to spend them in heartland shops.

He added that despite online scams on the rise, many shop owners were told to go digital or forfeit benefits from e-vouchers.

Mr Seetoh explained that all of this was done, “then claim got 30% increase in sales and ownself praise ownself on this Heartland Festival success”.

Last week, sharing a photo of poorly planned safe-distancing measures at a hawker centre, Makansutra founder KF Seetoh took to social media on Sunday (Feb 12).

In a Facebook post, the photo that Mr Seetoh shared showed a table of six with almost all the seats seemingly cordoned off. This was despite the adjacent tables all being more than a metre away.

In his post, Mr Seetoh wrote: “Seriously, u gotta relook this seat spacing thingy. Don’t apply dogma hor use common sense mah.!”

KF Seetoh points out safe distancing in a hawker centre planned without ‘common sense’