Eat like Pigs ?

The Food Republic in Vivo is similar to the one at Wisma, with "so called" famous hawker food selling their food there. The whole look and feel is 古色古香, and with everything in wooden, except the cutleries/utensils and staff. This picture was taken last night around 9+, not very packed but still crowded, with queue of 10 odd people at popular stalls. Between the 2 pillars, are stacks of used plates, bowls, cutlery and utensils, somehow no people was clearing it. But it was eventually cleared around 15 mins later. At other tables, unclear mess are also visible, maybe still understaffed or simply too slow or simply "bo chup".

There was an article weeks back in the Strait Times about a Singaporean trying to prove his foreigner friend wrong. Prove what ? Wrong ? About ? His foreigner friend says that Singaporean eat like pigs. During the days and weeks when they are out, scenes of above are evident. Not sure if he was really into proving his friend wrong but to me why is there a need to ? His friend's statement maybe abit too extreme but since this is Singapore, where people, culture, lifestyle and habits are diffrent from where he came from. I mean, if he somehow do not like the scenes he see at hawker centres and food courts, so be it, find another country.

In addition, say on a non-peak hour weekday, at a single table in a hawker centre, a person eating a bowl of noodles with a drink, how messy and dirty can it get ? He meant one will eat the noodles with his hands in public ? or eat till half the noodles are on the table ? or with his mouth smeared with sauces and noodles ?

But if this gets to a large scale, during peak hours on a weekend where many people eating lots of food on a table, it may looked messy and dirty as drinks/food spilt on the table, it get worse when clearing the mess is slow and not thorough enough.

Nonetheless, how serious is that ang moh with his comment only himself knows. And I believe most people here don't even care about what he thinks :) This is the ultimate when one doesn't care about what other thinks !