Cooked food dishes being sold for S$2.50 and below
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Channel NewsAsia - Monday, June 30
CASE finds many cooked food dishes being sold for S$2.50 and below
SINGAPORE : Consumers who feel that eating out is getting expensive will be glad to know that 60 per cent of stalls surveyed are still selling their favourite dishes at below S$2.50.
This is according to the Consumers Association of Singapore (CASE), which conducted a recent survey of 388 hawker centres and coffeeshops around the island.
Consumers can still tuck into chicken rice, fishball noodles and nasi briyani at some stalls at an affordable price, according to CASE.
Lim Biow Chuan, Vice—President, CASE, said: "We were initially under the impression that cooked food prices are quite high. So we are quite pleasantly surprised to find out that there are quite a large number of stalls that are selling cooked food for S$2.50 and below."
The Association checked out the stalls in late May and early June.
From its survey, consumers can find the most number of cheap cooked food stalls in the South Zone areas like Bukit Merah, Queen Street and Queenstown.
However, CASE did not find any foodstalls with prices below S$2.00 in the west zone area.
Still, the consumer watchdog said it was a random survey and so not all prices at food stalls islandwide have been captured. — CNA/ms
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North Bridge Road Market - Chicago Nasi Lemak
Rice + Fried Chicken Wing + 3 other side dishes (egg or veggies) = $2.20
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60 % ? wow. I must have been eating at all the wrong places.
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can, definitely can find.
but i will need to eat 2 plates to fill myself.
another 'smoke' survey.
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Tampines St 81, chicken rice at $1.30
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Originally posted by alwaysdisturbed:
can, definitely can find.
but i will need to eat 2 plates to fill myself.
another 'smoke' survey.
well, i doubt the 60% but there are still some which sell $2 to $2.50 lunches around..just gave you one example..
in the same market, 2 chicken rice stalls are still selling $2 plates of chicken rice.. and they're pretty okay for an average person... they also have $1.50 chye tau kuey, $2 wanton noodles..
not too bad
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possible for them to mention more detail?
S$2.50 Chicken rice? serving portion size? that bowl of rice on plate, how many gram? what estimate weight of chicken being chopped? slice not accurate, they can thin sliced, when on plate look many, unlike chicken wings or dumb stick serving, any cucumber? how many slice of cucumber? any tomato? any archar?
when they buy from supplier all these come in proper weighted bags,
now should be good time to nail down all foods stall, heavy profit making
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we all know got cheap places to eat lah
Just tt we bother to go find or travel all the way there or not
this kind of thing oni benefits the ppl staying nearby loh
another ting is..... cheap but taste good or not........ -
Originally posted by zaxis:
possible for them to mention more detail?
S$2.50 Chicken rice? serving portion size? that bowl of rice on plate, how many gram? what estimate weight of chicken being chopped? slice not accurate, they can thin sliced, when on plate look many, unlike chicken wings or dumb stick serving, any cucumber? how many slice of cucumber? any tomato? any archar?
when they buy from supplier all these come in proper weighted bags,
now should be good time to nail down all foods stall, heavy profit making
you spoke my mind.
but then to nail stalls with heavy profit making, i doubt they'll ever do it. afterall, higher profit means higher tax.
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i've always wondered.. there are people who actually spend $3 to go eat $2 food
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Originally posted by FireIce:
we all know got cheap places to eat lah
Just tt we bother to go find or travel all the way there or not
this kind of thing oni benefits the ppl staying nearby loh
another ting is..... cheap but taste good or not........ya loh. take bus there already cost 1 dollar at least.
overall cost i might as well eat at where i am.
haha, food taste good or not....later govt tell us got food to eat, good enough.
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Originally posted by alwaysdisturbed:
you spoke my mind.
but then to nail stalls with heavy profit making, i doubt they'll ever do it. afterall, higher profit means higher tax.
hawker only pay minimum tax
IRAS not equip enough manpower to track them down, they only nail them after tips off
most hawker fall under the 67% who do not require to pay tax, aka tax-able income below 24K. or more then 3 children
if IRAS want to nail them, market street hawker centre should be first they should go.
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should do onr survey of our own also.
CASE finds many cooked food dishes being sold for S$2.50 and below, but CONSUMERS find even more cooked food dishes being sold for S$3.50 and above
a bowl of $3.50 curry chicken noodle can barely fill my stomach!
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KNN, pork porridge $3 per bowl. Add yu char kueh pay 50c more. It is a stall in a hawker centre.
Another stall selling fishball noodles have only two medium size fishballs with the noodles .
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so do we thank the gahmen for these cheap food?
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why they bother to tell us the cheap places to eat, rather than sniffing out those tt overcharge and go find out why they so asspensive and try to find solutions to tt?
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Originally posted by alwaysdisturbed:
ya loh. take bus there already cost 1 dollar at least.
overall cost i might as well eat at where i am.
haha, food taste good or not....later govt tell us got food to eat, good enough.
Indeed. Who knows? Later they think got so cheap food, tax increase again. All the school children need do community service all gather outside their doors, I say obigood.
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Some of the stalls use this tactic as to draw in more crowds to their stalls. Then after a while, they will revert back to the original price.
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how come some hawker centre selling cheap & good Food not in the survey list?
sgforums should do one 100% complete survey.
cheapest food @ hawker centre
most expensive food @ hawker centre.
condition:
1. Price,
2. serving portion,
2.1 estimated weight of serving .
3 easy to reach.
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The organisation is just a paper tiger and will provide data to make sure that they dun need to do any work.
These people are just paid wayang.
Just do a walk around the neighbourhood, it will be quite hard to find any food with the price tag of $2.50.
If the VP can be "surprised" about the food price, it only shows that he dun go to food court or hawker center for food or he cooked his own maggi mee at home.
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maybe the one who do the survey, goes around and tell the stall owners. "Eh Uncle/Auntie, I here do makan survey. What's special huh?"
"Ah di, come come, try my food. Cheap cheap. Only $2.50. For you only.
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Originally posted by mamamamama:
should do onr survey of our own also.
CASE finds many cooked food dishes being sold for S$2.50 and below, but CONSUMERS find even more cooked food dishes being sold for S$3.50 and above
a bowl of $3.50 curry chicken noodle can barely fill my stomach!
ahahahahhaa i rikes the way u said it
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Maybe the organisation employed the three gentlemen from M1 advert to perform the survey.
That is why the result is so "wo wo".
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The breakdown of the operation costs gives a clearer picture. From Lianhe Wanbao.
$1.30 chicken rice operation costs:
rent:$5K
employees: 1, weekends additional 1 =$1.3K
water/electricity:$700
can sell 60-90 chickens - 1 chicken for 18 plates
$4 chicken rice operation costs
rent:$6K
employees: 6 = $12K
water/electricity: $1.9K
can sell 20 - 30 chickens - 1 chicken for 13 plates
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Originally posted by googoomuck:
The breakdown of the operation costs gives a clearer picture. From Lianhe Wanbao.
$1.30 chicken rice operation costs:
rent:$5K
employees: 1, weekends additional 1 =$1.3K
water/electricity:$700
can sell 60-90 chickens - 1 chicken for 18 plates
$4 chicken rice operation costs
rent:$6K
employees: 6 = $12K
water/electricity: $1.9K
can sell 20 - 30 chickens - 1 chicken for 13 plates
S$1.30 - 1 chicken - 18 plates = smaller portion? or bone together
S$4.00 - 1 chicken - 13 plates = bigger portion? or boneless chicken.
how big or small each chicken? what average weight of each chicken?
water / electricity? S$700 vs S$1,900.00? different so much? water/electricity = SP services, unlike gas has few other provider, which can different in gas price.
selling 20 -30 chicken per day can get average S$2,000.00 per month
selling 60 - 90 chicken per can only received S$1,300.00 per month.
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