'Taste of ash and smoke': Diner claims cigarette found in laksa, Kopitiam stall employee alleges lemongrass
The Singapore Food Agency (SFA) and FairPrice Group are looking into an incident in which a foreign object was discovered in a bowl of laksa at Plaza Singapura's Kopitiam food court.
Stomp contributor Jules identified the object as part of a cigarette, but said the stall's staff denied it and told him it was lemongrass.
Jules said he had bought Penang laksa from the food court's Penang Island stall on May 31, at around 1pm.
He recounted: «Halfway through my meal, I noticed something strange in the soup. I brushed it off and thought it was likely fish meat.
»I bit into it and to my surprise, it tasted like ash and didn't break down even after I chewed it once. I knew it definitely wasn't something that was a part of the dish because of the taste.
«I asked my colleagues to make sure that I was not seeing this wrong. We then confirmed that it was definitely something foreign when I tore the object apart to check its texture.
»It definitely wasn't part of the dish. We suspected that it was a cigarette filter, the back part of a cigarette."
The Stomp contributor shared photos and a video of what he found in his laksa.
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