A woman who purchased PlayMade bubble tea was sipping her drink when she felt something that was not as soft as a pearl topping.
“Mum found this in her drink. And it’s RUSTY,” wrote Singapore Subreddit user u/onewaytrac-k.
The order of M-Yakult Green Tea had a dark metal piece at the bottom of the cup.
According to the Reddit user, the bubble tea was purchased from PlayMade’s Tampines 1 outlet.
“Wrote to PlayMade and SFA (Singapore Food Agency) about this. Waiting for their response,” said the original poster.
“Honestly, glad that your mum is ok, though! No amount of compensation would be enough if she was hurt/injured from swallowing this!” said a concerned netizen.
The original poster responded that her mother was lucky she felt the metal piece before she started chewing on the pearls. “Don’t even want to imagine biting or swallowing it.”
“Even the thought of swallowing it by accident is enough to make me shudder with fear. Hope PlayMade will get to the bottom of this and give you a satisfactory resolution!” another netizen added.
When asked for an update, the Reddit user said on Thursday (Aug 4) that the company has since apologised and offered them a S$50 voucher. “But the implications could have been so much more.”
Mustshare News added that SFA confirmed it was aware of the incident. The agency representative said they were investigating the matter. /TISG
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