Ban Mian Hawker Praised By Netizens After Returning $445.50 Mistakenly Paid By “Elderly Customer”
While the push to go digital with e-payments at hawker centres and kopitiams has been happening for quite some time now, here’s a reminder that not all folks are technologically savvy — or perhaps careful with numbers.
Recently, an “elderly customer keyed in the wrong figure” when purchasing a bowl of ban mian via DBS bank’s PayLah! app at the Admiralty branch of Xiao Mei Ban Mian, a fusion ban mian chain opened by Myanmar-born software engineer-turned-hawker Khine Zar Lin. “He accidentally keyed in $450 instead of $4.50,” says the 34-year-old naturalised citizen to 8days.sg. “That’s enough for a hundred bowls of ban mian!”
But his overpayment went unnoticed during the dinner rush – her staff only discovered the discrepancy later that night when tallying up their earnings for the day.
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