One of my favourite places to have coffee is at the neighbourhood coffeeshop. Or "kopi tiam" as we are calling it in Hokkien. No, it's not called a Food Court as so many have called it. I hate Food Court.
The uncle or coffee boy that serve the coffee will greet you with familiar Singaporean Hokkien accent. He will remember your usual order of kopi.
Now, with everywhere employing Chinese Nationals from China to work in coffeeshop, our normal sounds like "kopi", "kopi o", "kopi siew dai", etc has suddenly become so unfamiliar.
The worst is some coffeeshop is converting to Food Court Style where they don't serve the coffee to you anymore. You have to order it at the counter.
Yes, the Chinese from China are mostly polite and do their stuff well.
But, we are losing our Singapore Identity in this area, as well as my morning coffee enjoyment.
Sad.
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