If there's one thing to take away from this story, it's the fact that you never, ever should fuck with murtabak magnates.
The infamous rivalry between the two murtabak restaurants along North Bridge Road — Singapore Zam Zam and Victory — got to a vicious head after a dispute erupted between their staff on Aug 22 last year, according to court logs.
Their quarrel started when Victory restaurant supervisor Liakath Ali Mohamed Ibrahim was seen standing outside his restaurant touting for customers. The police arrived later in the evening to confront him (touting for business is prohibited in Singapore). The 52-year-old — who used to work at the rival murtabak joint from 1985 to 2004 — explained to the cops that he was touting because staff from Zam Zam were also doing the same.