'Economic' rice cost $12.80 at HDB Hub

[chowcheebye]

Lau Goh: "chowcheebye if got no $12.80 rice then i worry"

 

[Satyr]

I had lunch yesterday at T1 staff canteen. Went for the nasi briyani with the price stated at $5. After one of the stall helper chopped the fried chicken, he asked me what vegetable dish i want. I was startled at first as I thought nasi briyani doesn't come with vegetables but then i thought it was part of the nasi briyani meal @ $5. So I chose the long bean and after that he proceed to hand me one packet of papadum (3 pieces inside). When I handed over a $10 note for payment, the change that came back to me was $3.40. I then asked the other cashier isn't $5 the cost of the nasi briyani? She then replied that the vegetable dish cost 80 cents while the papadum was also 80 cents.
So in the end, the nasi briyani cost me $6.60 versus the $5 that I had expected.

Maybe I am naive but it is not so much about the additional 80 cents each for the vegetable and papadum that I had to pay but more about the 'hidden' cost which, to me, stall holders seem to deliberately withhold from informing customers.

Don't think the vendors can help it. Costs are pretty high for them. They are giving you a choice of a $5 meal or a $6.60 meal.

 

[escher]

Rather sinkies deserve this shit for voting and keeping pap in power.
No complaints please....suffer all you gong cheebyes.
Good start to a Sunday morning hearing sinkies suffering....

Yes!

Sinkies got what they voted for

Sinkies should keep head down down and arseholes up high high

 

[Rushwind]

Don't think the vendors can help it. Costs are pretty high for them. They are giving you a choice of a $5 meal or a $6.60 meal.

Yes. I know rental costs are high for hawkers. I was displeased not with the $6.60 that I paid but at the 'hidden costs' which was not disclosed to me when I made the order. It was clearly stated on the price list that the nasi briyani costs $5 and not $6.60. My previous experience eating nasi briyani is that the papadum is included in the total cost of the nasi briyani and yesterday was the first time that I had to pay extra for the papadum.

 

[Sideswipe]

Noodles = $3.00
Egg = $2.00
Chicken = $3.00
Another kind of meat = $2.80
Vegetables = $2

Final Cheating Tally = $12.80

in most coffeeshops. it would be

Noodles = $1
Egg = $0.50
Chicken = $1.00
Another kind of meat = $1.00
Vegetables = $0.50

Final Tally = $4


the HDB Hub price was really very very ludicrous.

 

[Narong Wongwan]

Yes. I know rental costs are high for hawkers. I was displeased not with the $6.60 that I paid but at the 'hidden costs' which was not disclosed to me when I made the order. It was clearly stated on the price list that the nasi briyani costs $5 and not $6.60. My previous experience eating nasi briyani is that the papadum is included in the total cost of the nasi briyani and yesterday was the first time that I had to pay extra for the papadum.

Pap govt also comes with alot of hidden costs besides their multi million salaries.
This is what happens when you give the white scums a blank cheque.
Now even ah tiong hawkers are fleecing the sinkie sheep.....

 

[Satyr]

Yes. I know rental costs are high for hawkers. I was displeased not with the $6.60 that I paid but at the 'hidden costs' which was not disclosed to me when I made the order. It was clearly stated on the price list that the nasi briyani costs $5 and not $6.60. My previous experience eating nasi briyani is that the papadum is included in the total cost of the nasi briyani and yesterday was the first time that I had to pay extra for the papadum.

Guess you're right. But can you imagine walking up to the stall and finding out your favourite Nasi Briyani is now 6.60. You might just walk away in disgust. The vendor has to find a way to break it to you gently. Blame the real culprits. You know who they are.

 

[Rushwind]

Guess you're right. But can you imagine walking up to the stall and finding out your favourite Nasi Briyani is now 6.60. You might just walk away in disgust. The vendor has to find a way to break it to you gently. Blame the real culprits. You know who they are.

Haiz... Just my luck to have chosen nasi briyani for lunch yesterday from that stall at T1 staff canteen.

 

[zhihau]

if the guy already put the food on the rice

they are inside the stall mah, come out also need time and effort

 

[zhihau]

How come nobody here yet to ask Kelvin the golden question yet?

who did he vote for?

 

[Scrooball (clone)]

He could have eaten soursop before he left the house. Then he won't need to go foodcourt.

 

[zhihau]

He could have eaten soursop before he left the house. Then he won't need to go foodcourt.

and if he chooses to eat at the food court, he should choose vegetarian food instead

 

[singveld]

actually this is call inflation, it is part of your country economic system, call capitalism. therefore regardless of which political party, capitalism and inflation flow constantly.

 

[zhihau]

actually this is call inflation, it is part of your country economic system, call capitalism. therefore regardless of which political party, capitalism and inflation flow constantly.

plausible, but me think that if the same plate of food can be charged less somewhere else in Singapore, then it's called a "rip-off" at this TPY-Hub FoodCourt :p:p:p

 

[Scrooball (clone)]

actually this is call inflation, it is part of your country economic system, call capitalism. therefore regardless of which political party, capitalism and inflation flow constantly.

$12.80 for economic rice in a food court setting is called inflation? Maybe u will consider $700,000 for public housing as 'market adjustment'

 

[The_Hypocrite]

Sometimes one has to be careful when ordering.. When I was a kid I learnt the hard way about ordering. Ordered normal prata and the chap bought the curry with a piece of mutton. Than charge me for the mutton even though I did not order it. I LAN LAN pay than next time if they bring me food I never order. I tell them to take it back. These hawkers can be damn unscrupulous. Try to cheat u when they can.

 

[tonychat]

if he eat vegetarian food, he will not have such price problem.

 

[hokkien]

I remember when takashimaya was new,the food was expensive and everyone was talking about itStill not expensive compare to this$12.8

 

[escher]

$12.80 for economic rice in a food court setting is called inflation? Maybe u will consider $700,000 for public housing as 'market adjustment'

You think more billions for smear of shit on sole of shoe LKY stinkapore sovereign funds and to pay his PAP bags of walking excrement and civil serpents and kangaroos come cheap cheap?

Lay it on
Make sinkies suffer even more
sinkies deserved what they voted for, no more, no less

 

[zhihau]

Still not expensive compare to this$12.8

even the SGD$6+ laksa at Vivo also bo tang fight :o:o:o