SIBU: What’s the difference between stir-fried noodles and wet noodles? ‘A slap on the face’ in a coffee shop, that stirred an attack on Friday.
A customer had ordered a plate of ‘wet noodles’, more commonly known as Foochow noodles in other parts of Sarawak, for dinner at 6.30pm.
But when the hawker’s son served him ‘stir-fried noodles’ instead, the customer smacked him right in the face.
This led to an argument in the coffee shop.
The hawker, on seeing her son being beaten, approached the two to try defuse the situation, but she was instead pushed and beaten, ending up being slightly hurt too.
It was not so fortunate for her son, for serving the stirred-fried dish – he received four stitches in the hospital later for injuries in the attack.
Mother and son then proceeded to the police station to lodge a report on their shoddy treatment.
The disgruntled customer, apparently after calming down, then arrived to ask for forgiveness.
He admitted he had acted rough and said it was as if he had been ‘possessed’.
He kept on apologising profusely to the mother and son.
The customer met the two in the central police station again yesterday, and was still begging for forgiveness.
At press-time, it was unclear if the two parties had patched up over the hot ‘wok’.