Banquet Halal Food

By Money Sick | May 3, 2010

Photograph of Yong Tau Fu Stall at Banquet, Causeway Point, 7th Floor (Raffles, Stall 11)

This is Banquet Yong Tau Fu Food stall at 7th Floor of Causeway Point. Nowadays, I do not like to eat outside food because the food is usually very bland or not the usual taste as before…

I used to like to eat the Laksa Yong Tau Fu here at this stall (Raffles, Stall 11, Yong Tau Fu). But on this day, I found that the normal taste was gone. It ‘smell’ (aroma/fragrance) of the soup was different from the normal one that I had eaten months or perhaps a year or more ago (during my pregnancy, I could not eat spicy food nor eat outside food…) But I am not that picky. I continued to eat this bowl of Yong Tau Fu, consisting of my favourite ingredients. This is the advantage of eating Yong Tau Fu — you get to pick your favourite ingredients/food to go along with the Laksa soup.

Both Clara and me picked at least 7 pieces of Yong Tau Fu for our bowls. I always tried to choose the minimum because ultimately, after ‘counting my way’ (getting 7 pieces), the prices of my Yong Tau Fu is always so expensive… I patronized this stall not one, two or three times. I gave up being ‘so calculative’ — I just paid them whatever amount they named it.

So on this day, for two bowls of Yong Tau Fu, I had to pay a total of $9.70. Look at the receipt below for the ‘details’. I would never understand how they ‘calculate’. I ever asked them, but the food court workers‘ explanation are not helpful at all (or rather their way of charging the Yong Tau Fu is not very clear).

Price list at the Yong Tau Fu Stall

Receipt for 2 Bowls of Yong Tau Fu

To enjoy a bowl of Laksa Yong Tau Fu and to ease my hunger is all I want. I am not bother about how much it is and whether I am overcharged or going to be charged wrongly. I really gave up to ‘battle’ or waste time ‘arguing’ with all these people about how much the food is being charged… There was once, they refunded me for overcharging after I approached them (same stall). In fact, about two times… But still, I let it be… since their food was my favourite!

Red Alert

Yong Tau Fu ‘cooking pot’ with their sweet sauce and chilli sauce at the side of the table

All my appetite was lost after Clara told me that her soup got insects. To my surprise, they were more than 3 insects — considering some of them sank to the bottom of the Bee Hoon Soup after she stirred them! There might be even more! So disgusting! This is not valued for money and is unhygienic……Halal Food!

When approached, the food court workers point her fingers at the pot of boiling soup and said they are peppers. I told her and insist that those are insects with legs. She asked another Chinese worker out who told me the same thing. The Chinese worker even suggest that it might be some green worm from the vegetable (which is normal)…

Anyway, she refunded me the money after she ‘act act’ (go inside ‘office’ and came out from ‘office)… She showed me this packet of peppers, again want to say that I see wrongly….

I am carrying a packet of black peppers…. Peppers definitely got no legs…