SINGAPORE, April 22 — When Faith Liang heard the news that standalone bubble tea outlets will have to close until May 4 or longer, the 27-year-old human resource professional decided she had to step out of her home to get one last sip of her favourite beverage. She drinks bubble tea at...
Queues form at bubble tea shops hours before they shut to comply with tighter controls to curb Covid-19Customers queuing for bubble tea from Koi at Yew Tee MRT Station on April 21, 2020 at about 9pm. — TODAY pic
At Itea, the drinks were sold out by the time she got there at 9pm, while the massive crowd in front of Liho was just not worth the wait. From today, standalone food-and-beverage outlets that sell only beverages, packaged snacks, confectionaries or desserts will have to close their outlets until at least May 4.
Photos and videos of snaking queues outside bubble tea shops across the island yesterday night went viral hours after Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong announced in a live address to the nation that the circuit breaker to limit movement of people was extended to June 1 and more businesses selling non-essential items will have to close to arrest the spread of the coronavirus.
Voon Yueqi, 19, who is waiting to further her studies at the National University of Singapore, said that she gets her bubble tea “fix” about three times a week. She tried ordering from Gong Cha through Deliveroo as early as 7.15pm. The first-year communications student took a five-minute walk to her Yishun neighbourhood’s Itea shop and bought a drink after queueing, but not satisfied with the one flavour left that was being sold, she went to Sweet Talk to get another drink, a hazelnut milk tea.
“Remember that the drivers and riders are not the business owners," Lim said. "These customers, they had a choice — they could have simply waited patiently. When the crisis gets better, they may get as much bubble tea as they want.”
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