When you’re hungry, there’s nothing like a plate of cai png or economy rice to soothe your hunger pangs quickly and cheaply.
However, one woman’s cai png caused her to lose her appetite.
This was apparently after she found some “extra protein” in the form of a caterpillar.
Source: @ziweeei_ on TikTok
In a short TikTok video posted on Tuesday (18 Apr), user Ziwei Yong shared her cai png meal that looked like it included some vegetables and potato slices.
However, it also included an extra ingredient — something long and green that was curled up and apparently not moving.
In the caption, she asked a question she probably already knew the answer to: Is that a caterpillar or a long bean?
Ziwei also gave followers a clue as to where she got this from.
She tagged the clip’s location as a kopitiam located at Block 539 Bedok North Street 3.
Source: Google Maps
Disgusted, Ziwei said that she lost her appetite immediately.
Source: TikTok
Those who saw the funny side remarked that it’s just “more protein”.
Source: TikTok
Another tried to ‘comfort’ her by pointing out that at least, she didn’t have to pay for the extra ‘ingredient’.
Source: TikTok
Ziwei later told AsiaOne it was “not the worst meal” she has had, though she’ll check her food before eating from now on.
The 24-year-old also revealed that she has yet to inform the stall about the caterpillar in the food.
Saying she doesn’t dare to complain to them, she speculated that they would brush it off as “just a caterpillar”.
She isn’t the first customer to have found creepy crawlies in their food, unfortunately.
In February, a cockroach was found in a packet of curry chicken rice from a restaurant in Yishun.
And half a cockroach was found in tofu bought from a hawker in Bukit Panjang — sickeningly, the other half might have had been eaten.
Hopefully, none of these unfortunate customers became ill, and the establishments concerned will improve their hygiene.
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Featured image adapted from @ziweeei_ on TikTok.
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