{"id":37059,"date":"2026-03-18T01:43:34","date_gmt":"2026-03-17T17:43:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/?p=37059"},"modified":"2026-03-18T01:43:34","modified_gmt":"2026-03-17T17:43:34","slug":"so-clean-toilets-at-holland-village-food-centre-draw-praise-from-influencer-singapore-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/?p=37059","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;So clean&#8217;: Toilets at Holland Village Food Centre draw praise from influencer, Singapore News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p>An influencer praising the female toilets at Holland Village Food Centre for being &#8220;so clean&#8221; has sparked mixed reactions online.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>In a video shared by the SG Daily Facebook page on March 9, Isabelle Chatterton said that she initially dreaded using the amenities there.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I&#8217;ve never expected to have anything like this in a hawker centre,&#8221; Chatterton said in the clip that was first posted on Instagram in June 2025. &#8220;I&#8217;m impressed.&#8221;\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Chatterton showed two cubicles, which had spotless toilet bowls. The floor was also dry with no litter strewn around.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;They even had a Dyson hand dryer and toilet paper there,&#8221; she said.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" frameborder=\"0\" height=\"476\" width=\"267\" scrolling=\"no\" src=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/plugins\/video.php?height=476&amp;href=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.facebook.com%2Freel%2F1629259648507005%2F&amp;show_text=false&amp;width=267&amp;t=0\" allowfullscreen=\"\" allow=\"autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; picture-in-picture; web-share\">\u00a0<\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>The video on Facebook has since garnered over 100,000 views and 1,000 reactions.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>In the comments, several social media users felt that state of the toilet that Chatterton used was common.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;All toilets in Singapore are clean,&#8221; said one of them, while another praised the cleaners for doing a &#8220;good job&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>Others, however, felt that Chatterton&#8217;s reaction reflects her low expectations of toilets in coffee shops.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;So easily impressed,&#8221; a social media user said.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Operators can tap into the National Environment Agency&#8217;s (NEA) Coffeeshop Toilet Renovation Grant which provides up to 95 per cent of renovation costs, capped at $50,000 per coffee shop, while another deep cleaning grant co-funds up to 95 per cent of a two-year cleaning contracts, capped at $25,000.<\/p>\n<p>The two $5 million grants, introduced last year, were among the 10 recommendations by the government-led Public Toilets Task Force to improve the cleanliness of toilets in Singapore.<\/p>\n<p>[[nid:678621]]<\/p>\n<p>chingshijie@asiaone.com<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.asiaone.com\/singapore\/so-clean-toilets-holland-village-food-centre-draw-praise-influencer\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read Full Article At Source <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An influencer praising the female toilets at Holland Village Food Centre for being &#8220;so clean&#8221; has sparked mixed reactions online.\u00a0 In a video shared by&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":37060,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2611],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-37059","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-buzz-headlines","wpcat-2611-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37059","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=37059"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37059\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/37060"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=37059"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=37059"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=37059"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}