{"id":85129,"date":"2026-09-15T15:40:00","date_gmt":"2026-09-15T07:40:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/?p=85129"},"modified":"2026-09-15T15:40:00","modified_gmt":"2026-09-15T07:40:00","slug":"woman-upset-after-man-offers-her-toddler-pau-on-mrt-train-we-shouldnt-normalise-feeding-a-strangers-child-singapore-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/?p=85129","title":{"rendered":"Woman upset after man offers her toddler pau on MRT train: &#8216;We shouldn&#8217;t normalise feeding a stranger&#8217;s child&#8217;, Singapore News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p>A mother was alarmed after a man allegedly offered her toddler a &#8220;half-eaten&#8221; steamed bun, or pau, while they were travelling on an MRT train.<\/p>\n<p>In a TikTok post shared on Saturday (Sept 12), user yantilala95 said she only realised what was happening when the food was already in front of her son&#8217;s mouth.<\/p>\n<p>She said she immediately screamed and pulled her son, Khalis, closer to her.<\/p>\n<p>In the video, the man can be seen sat on the carriage floor and presumably eating the pau next to the toddler, who is inside a stroller.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;When a stranger (a foreigner) has absolutely no care in the world about the rules and casually sits on the MRT floor while eating his bao,&#8221; the mother alleged.<\/p>\n<p>The woman questioned why the man thought it was acceptable to offer food to a child he did not know, particularly when the food had already been partially eaten.<\/p>\n<p>She also raised concerns about the food&#8217;s origins and ingredients, and whether it was halal.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Half eaten pau? Ew your saliva is already on the bao and you want to feed my son?&#8221; she wrote.<\/p>\n<p>While she said she did not mind strangers showing affection towards her children, she felt that offering them food was a different matter.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We shouldn&#8217;t normalise feeding strangers&#8217; child,&#8221; she captioned the video.<\/p>\n<p>Under Section 14(a) of Singapore&#8217;s Rapid Transit Systems Regulations, passengers are prohibited from consuming or attempting to consume food or drinks on railway premises, except in designated areas.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>AsiaOne reached out to yantilala95 for more information.<\/p>\n<p>[[nid:740372]]<\/p>\n<p>asyiqin.nadzri@asiaone.com<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<center><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.asiaone.com\/singapore\/stranger-offers-toddler-pau-food-mrt\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read Full Article At Source <\/a><br \/>\n<center\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A mother was alarmed after a man allegedly offered her toddler a &#8220;half-eaten&#8221; steamed bun, or pau, while they were travelling on an MRT train&#8230;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":85130,"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-85129","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-buzz-headlines","wpcat-2611-id"],"brizy_media":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85129","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=85129"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85129\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/85130"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=85129"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=85129"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=85129"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}