今天，我在Blk 91 Whampoa Market 吃早餐，从0103咖啡茶室买一杯Kopi kosong。顾客很多，所以老夫妇忙得不可开交。老板娘跟顾客很熟，直接叫他们的名字，有时还亲自端上咖啡。老板娘抱歉地告诉我说得等一等，我说那我先去吃carrot cake。老板娘说没问题，接着也帮我送咖啡。咖啡只算90毛钱。天啊❗️在这物价暴涨的年代还坚持卖这么便宜！我给老板娘一块，说不用找钱了啊。老板娘不肯，说这是老板坚持这样卖。

其实，在步伐紧促的新加坡，还能找得到窝心的人情味。喝了杯洋溢着热情的咖啡，吸收的正能量不止90毛钱。

At #01-03 Whampoa Market, I observed a hunchbacked elderly man painstakingly making coffee. A lady, who presumably is his wife, was busy calling their customers by name and even serving them their orders at times. When she served me my coffee, I was shocked to learn that my Kopi coffee cost a mere 90 cents. I wanted to pay $1 because I would still feel that I had gotten a sweet deal, given that I’m used to paying $1.20-1.70 for my coffee these days. She declined, saying that that was her husband’s operating philosophy.

This prompted me to post this in halting Chinese and hopefully more readable English because I think their exemplary service should be made known to others. Hopefully, more people will patronise their stall so that they won’t have to worry about making a living.