Singaporean Efficiency

The food cleaners in Singapore is getting ridiculously efficient. It's almost as if they are eyeing on your plate from the very moment you lay it down on the table to eat. Once i left my unfinished Starbucks drink on the table and left for a split second, the next moment it was gone! And i still want it! Then there was this time dear and i ordered this plate of fried red bean wraps, which we took our time to eat. When there were only two wraps left, the cleaner came and ask "can i clear this?" "No!" was our reply. Two minutes later, we still haven't touched the wraps, and this cleaner came back asking the same thing. "No we still want to eat this!" we said. Then this cleaner went to the corner while he eyed our plate. Then he circled us a few times waiting for us to finish our food so that he can clear it. We decided to quickly finish up the food then in order to please him. And there were many more instances whereby cleaners just clean up the tables faster than the consumers can dig in! i don't know if it's a good thing or not, but it's definitely a true blue Singaporean thing.