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On Sep. 13, a man in Singapore shared his unpleasant dining experience at a hawker stall in Pasir Panjang Food Centre.

The man had brought his family to the food centre to have dinner ordered from a zi char stall.

Received medium instead of small

According to his Facebook post, he ordered four bowls of rice and small servings of stingray, clams, beansprouts and hotplate tofu.

In a report by Lianhe Wanbao, the man felt something was amiss when he had to pay S$69 for the entire meal.

However, he only realised that the hawker had upsized his orders and charged him more when the first dish arrived.

The clams came in a much larger plate than the small-sized option he had initially ordered.

The man approached the stall owner to ask why she had given him a medium-sized portion when he ordered for a small one.

She apparently replied: "You ordered four bowls of rice, I'm worried that you don't have enough to eat so I gave you a medium-sized portion."

Called the police for bad attitude

Subsequently, he received a refund of S$21 that was originally charged for the medium-sized dishes.

However, he called the police anyway as the stall owner apparently displayed a bad attitude.

He told Lianhe Wanbao that she had slammed the refunded money on the table.

In his Facebook post, he also added screenshots of bad reviews that the stall has received online.

Stall owner's side of the story

The stall owner also shared her side of the story via a Facebook post, according to the Chinese daily.

She wrote that she repeated the customer's order to confirm what he ordered.

But after the first dish was served, he suddenly came to confront her, accusing her of scamming him and threatening to call the police, unless the person in charge apologised to him.

She also sent a message to him via Facebook after his post went online.

According to her recounting of events, the customer immediately came to complain after the first dish was served, so she changed the next three dishes to small ones.

She explained that she was very busy at the time, so she agreed to change the dishes to small ones, hoping that the customer would return to his table first.

However, she said that he was adamant about her apologising to him.

As she refused to apologise, he proceeded to call the police.

"When the police came over to investigate, they also concluded that it was a misunderstanding. When the other three dishes were served, they finished it all too," she wrote.

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