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Chris' Tea House to stop serving tea because of harassment After being bludgeoned continously into closing down by flamers, Chris' Tea House has decided to stop its tea cafe business for the public on January 18. Mrs Christina Lim, the owner of the controversial restaurant, said the last straw came when she kept receiving "harassment" from an anonymous person calling her mobile phone. She told SoShiok.com that she has made police reports and "hopes the harassment will stop soon". She does not wish to reveal details of the harassment as police investigations are still going on. While it will stop serving tea, the charming tea house at Upper Paya Lebar will continue operating its retail front which offers chinaware, tea and other tea paraphernalia. She added: "I will be keeping the place but still thinking of other business to venture into." The tea house was the target of online flamers after her daughter called a customer "cheapskate" for making unreasonable demands and comments when he didn't spend a lot of money there, and for not understanding the practice of a "highclass" tea house. Those remarks irked the customer's supporters who gave her and her mother a relentless bashing on a few websites. Even though her daughter apologised subsequently for her remarks and Mrs Lim had explained her position on customer service and restaurant rules, online flamers continued to attack them. Some even called for a boycott of the tea house. But the tea house also had its supporters who slammed the flamers online, arguing that they should have proper etiquette when visiting the place. Actually Mrs Lim had no intention of opening her tea house to the public initially. She had bought the shophouse as an investment, and turned her tea appreciation hobby into a masssive project - a period English tea house decorated with matching furniture like wing chairs, fine porcelain and colourful tea paraphernalia. Friends fell in love with it too and suggested she opened it to the public. She followed their suggestion and also offered companies the use of the tea house as an event venue at a fee. But she also found out quite soon that it wasn't a viable business what with the small size of the place and its cheap pricing. She had told SoShiok.com that she could have kept it as a hobby and continue living a comfortable life instead of working hard to run it as a business and having to face the barrage of unkind remarks by flamers. Mrs Lim said she would keep the tea house to entertain her 'regulars', friends and associates. So it will be closed to the public, but open to her best supporters! Link

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