Compiled by BENJAMIN LEE, C. ARUNO and R. ARAVINTHAN
A WOMAN who ordered bullfrogs from a food delivery platform ended up with a bag of live, hopping amphibians after leaving a delivery note that simply read: “Don’t cook them”.
What the Shanghai resident had in mind was to get fresh bullfrogs that had just been slaughtered and cleaned, but not cooked, China Press reported.
However, the restaurant interpreted her request literally and gave her live bullfrogs.
The woman posted a video of a plastic bag filled with live bullfrogs online.
A staff member of the restaurant defended the act on literal grounds: “You said not to cook them, so we didn’t.”
Subsequently, the restaurant responded that the delivery of the live frogs was proof they used fresh ingredients.
> A mother from Sungai Besar, Selangor, made the painful decision to leave her son at a children’s home in search of better job opportunities in Singapore, China Press reported.
Kong Xiu Ping, 26, got married at 18 and gave birth to a boy that year. When the marriage ended, an aunt cared for her son.
She later remarried and had two more children, but when her second marriage also dissolved, those children were placed under the care of their father’s family.
Later, Xiu Ping’s aunt encountered financial difficulties and could no longer care for the boy.
Xiu Ping was forced to place her seven-year-old son at an orphanage in Perak.
The home’s chairman Sun Chin said the most painful decision a parent can make is entrusting their own child to someone else.
“For a mother, sending a child away is never easy, not because she doesn’t love him; but she loves him so much that she is willing to endure a broken heart to give him a better future,” he said.
The above article is compiled from the vernacular newspapers (Bahasa Malaysia, Chinese and Tamil dailies). As such, stories are grouped according to the respective language/medium. Where a paragraph begins with this ' >'sign, it denotes a separate news item.
