Cloudflare DNS is not resolving facebook and instagram to the nearest datacenter

Cloudflare DNS is not resolving facebook and instagram to the nearest datacenter for clients in HK.
1.1.1.1 is routing Facebook/Instagram to Singapore instead of the Hong Kong local server.
It’s causing significant performance degrade for browsing FB/IG especially at peak hours.

ping www.instagram.com
PING z-p42-instagram.c10r.instagram.com (157.240.235.174) 56(84) bytes of data.
64 bytes from instagram-p42-shv-04-sin6.fbcdn.net (157.240.235.174): icmp_seq=1 ttl=52 time=34.2 ms
64 bytes from instagram-p42-shv-04-sin6.fbcdn.net (157.240.235.174): icmp_seq=2 ttl=52 time=33.7 ms
64 bytes from instagram-p42-shv-04-sin6.fbcdn.net (157.240.235.174): icmp_seq=3 ttl=52 time=33.6 ms

ping www.facebook.com
PING star-mini.c10r.facebook.com (157.240.235.35) 56(84) bytes of data.
64 bytes from edge-star-mini-shv-04-sin6.facebook.com (157.240.235.35): icmp_seq=1 ttl=52 time=35.0 ms
64 bytes from edge-star-mini-shv-04-sin6.facebook.com (157.240.235.35): icmp_seq=2 ttl=52 time=33.5 ms
64 bytes from edge-star-mini-shv-04-sin6.facebook.com (157.240.235.35): icmp_seq=3 ttl=52 time=33.7 ms

Using Google DNS 8.8.8.8 as comparison:
Resolved to local breakout

ping www.facebook.com
PING star-mini.c10r.facebook.com (31.13.77.35) 56(84) bytes of data.
64 bytes from edge-star-mini-shv-01-hkt1.facebook.com (31.13.77.35): icmp_seq=1 ttl=56 time=1.29 ms
64 bytes from edge-star-mini-shv-01-hkt1.facebook.com (31.13.77.35): icmp_seq=2 ttl=56 time=1.15 ms
64 bytes from edge-star-mini-shv-01-hkt1.facebook.com (31.13.77.35): icmp_seq=3 ttl=56 time=1.31 ms

ping www.instagram.com
PING z-p42-instagram.c10r.instagram.com (31.13.77.174) 56(84) bytes of data.
64 bytes from instagram-p42-shv-01-hkt1.fbcdn.net (31.13.77.174): icmp_seq=1 ttl=56 time=1.13 ms
64 bytes from instagram-p42-shv-01-hkt1.fbcdn.net (31.13.77.174): icmp_seq=2 ttl=56 time=1.24 ms
64 bytes from instagram-p42-shv-01-hkt1.fbcdn.net (31.13.77.174): icmp_seq=3 ttl=56 time=1.08 ms
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