150kg food seized at airport


Have food will travel: Customs agents found packed foods including siew mai and char siew pau on a plane travelling from Singapore to Manila. — The Straits Times/ANN

MANILA: Customs agents seized more than 150kg of fruits and packed food that five Singaporeans and a Chinese national had planned on bringing with them to the Philippines on a planned casino romp.

A report in the Philippine Daily Inquirer said 96kg of grapes and passion fruit, and more than 65kg of siew mai, char siew pau, rice with meat toppings and other food placed inside styrofoam boxes were confiscated.

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