By Pearly Tan
The New Paper
Friday, Sep 16, 2011
The four men at a coffee shop sensed something was wrong with the five men at the table next to theirs, so one of them called the police.
Just minutes later, a fight broke out at the next table after two of the five men pulled out knives.
The police arrived just five minutes into the fight and the assailants fled, leaving behind an injured victim.
Miss Ler Ling Hong, 28, who works in the coffee shop, said the four men who called the police continued eating their dim sum calmly during the fight.
The men are in their 40s and are regular customers.
The fight, which involved a chopper, a parang and a watermelon knife, took place at a coffee shop at Block 5, Changi Village, on Sunday night.
Miss Ler said in Mandarin: "Three men arrived at first, but one then left and returned with another two men.
"The five of them sat at one of the outermost tables in the corner."
They ordered a bottle of beer and two cups of coffee, but none of it was touched.
Miss Ler said: "It happened so fast. They sat down for only a little while before I heard a tattooed man shout, 'one hundred' in Hokkien, and everything became chaotic."