Update : 25th october
Again the problem of vastly differing reports,while Nanyang Siang Pau mentioned that it happened at breakfast,
NST says it was during dinner and specified that the outlet involved is located in Jalan Tembikai.
Metro,a malay paper gets into gorier details which I won't put up here.
What I will quote from that paper is the following
"Mulanya saya tidak tahu dia tercekik apa, tetapi hanya dapat mengetahuinya selepas pihak hospital mengeluarkan bebola daging itu,......Menurutnya, anak sulungnya itu tidak menghidap sebarang penyakit kronik tetapi sejak kecil kerap batuk. Katanya, dia pernah diberitahu doktor yang pernah merawat anaknya sebelum ini, kerongkong Ugo agak kecil berbanding saiz normal"
Mention this road and Good Master dry bak kut teh immediately comes to mind.
In any case,it's advisable for them to arrange a press conference
to clear the air over any misconception or otherwise.
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While I extend my condolences to the family that lost their 7 year old at the breakfast table,
at the same time I would like to remind parents to use common sense when taking kids out for treats.
Check to see if the food items that you have ordered are too large,dry or long for their little mouths.
It is best to chop up meats,even fish with skin on,meatballs,jellies,long uncut veges into smaller pieces just for the young ones sake.
While you may like your balls whole,food operators are ever willing to go the extra mile and cut them up with a pair of scissors just for the little ones.
No matter how busy they are,you can always tell them point blank to bring them out of their uncooperative slumber and spring them into action with the above reason, as I am sure they do not want a fatality on their hands to smear the good name of their premises.
Dry roasted peanuts too are hazardous as they tend to get lodged all over the mouth when bitten up.
Also do your kids have a tendency to talk excitedly while eating?
At this point you have to insist they keep quiet until they have safely swallowed their food, even though you may look like a spoilsport.
Last but not least if you are one of the many horribly impatient parents and relatives found all over Penang,that frown at the kids like a hostile bunch of outlaws and gang up on them at the table, in order to force them to finish/gobble up their meal way too fast,put a stop to your nasty habit will you?
Scroll below and notice that I did mention earlier,that the chicken meat in the wantan mee sold at Sawara is so tough and dry,it could cause a child or old person to choke.
As for the culprit?
Your guess is as good as mine that it has to be one of those dry bah kut teh places.
Whose bright idea was it in the first place?
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Ugo Does Good One Last Time
New Straits Times 22.10.2011
A seven-year-old boy is believed to have died after choking on a meatball while having a bak kut teh meal at a coffeeshop in Bukit Mertajam, Nanyang Siang Pau reported.
The meatball got lodged in Chang You Ke's throat. He tried to vomit it out but to no avail.
Customers tried to help when Chang started suffocating and gasping for air.
Family members sent him to a nearby clinic and he was referred to the hospital as his condition worsened.
But it was too late for the boy. He was declared dead at the Bukit Mertajam Hospital.
Chang had gone to the coffeeshop with his parents and his two-year-old brother when the incident happened
Again the problem of vastly differing reports,while Nanyang Siang Pau mentioned that it happened at breakfast,
NST says it was during dinner and specified that the outlet involved is located in Jalan Tembikai.
Metro,a malay paper gets into gorier details which I won't put up here.
What I will quote from that paper is the following
"Mulanya saya tidak tahu dia tercekik apa, tetapi hanya dapat mengetahuinya selepas pihak hospital mengeluarkan bebola daging itu,......Menurutnya, anak sulungnya itu tidak menghidap sebarang penyakit kronik tetapi sejak kecil kerap batuk. Katanya, dia pernah diberitahu doktor yang pernah merawat anaknya sebelum ini, kerongkong Ugo agak kecil berbanding saiz normal"
Mention this road and Good Master dry bak kut teh immediately comes to mind.
In any case,it's advisable for them to arrange a press conference
to clear the air over any misconception or otherwise.
-------------------------------------------------------
While I extend my condolences to the family that lost their 7 year old at the breakfast table,
at the same time I would like to remind parents to use common sense when taking kids out for treats.
Check to see if the food items that you have ordered are too large,dry or long for their little mouths.
It is best to chop up meats,even fish with skin on,meatballs,jellies,long uncut veges into smaller pieces just for the young ones sake.
While you may like your balls whole,food operators are ever willing to go the extra mile and cut them up with a pair of scissors just for the little ones.
No matter how busy they are,you can always tell them point blank to bring them out of their uncooperative slumber and spring them into action with the above reason, as I am sure they do not want a fatality on their hands to smear the good name of their premises.
Dry roasted peanuts too are hazardous as they tend to get lodged all over the mouth when bitten up.
Also do your kids have a tendency to talk excitedly while eating?
At this point you have to insist they keep quiet until they have safely swallowed their food, even though you may look like a spoilsport.
Last but not least if you are one of the many horribly impatient parents and relatives found all over Penang,that frown at the kids like a hostile bunch of outlaws and gang up on them at the table, in order to force them to finish/gobble up their meal way too fast,put a stop to your nasty habit will you?
Scroll below and notice that I did mention earlier,that the chicken meat in the wantan mee sold at Sawara is so tough and dry,it could cause a child or old person to choke.
As for the culprit?
Your guess is as good as mine that it has to be one of those dry bah kut teh places.
Whose bright idea was it in the first place?
----------------------------------------------------------------
Ugo Does Good One Last Time
New Straits Times 22.10.2011
A seven-year-old boy is believed to have died after choking on a meatball while having a bak kut teh meal at a coffeeshop in Bukit Mertajam, Nanyang Siang Pau reported.
The meatball got lodged in Chang You Ke's throat. He tried to vomit it out but to no avail.
Customers tried to help when Chang started suffocating and gasping for air.
Family members sent him to a nearby clinic and he was referred to the hospital as his condition worsened.
But it was too late for the boy. He was declared dead at the Bukit Mertajam Hospital.
Chang had gone to the coffeeshop with his parents and his two-year-old brother when the incident happened
