Singapore Hawker Food Prices Soar to 14-Year High

[SBFNews]

Singapore Hawker Food Prices Soar to 14-Year High​

By
Kevin Varley

26 January 2023, 12:39 GMT+8

Singapore’s UNESCO-nominated hawker centers were no exception to the global inflation fight, posting the largest price jump among all dining outlets.

Hawker food inflation soared to a 14-year high of 8.1% in December from a year earlier, while restaurants, fast food chains and food caterers observed price increases below 7.5%, according to data from the Department of Statistics.

Many hawkers have been forced to hike their prices, especially hurting those on lower incomes for whom such food is a necessity.

Expensive Local Delights​

Singapore's hawker centers saw inflation above 2% every month last year

Sources: SingStats


The family-friendly food stalls are emblematic of Singapore’s multicultural society, known for selling beloved Chinese, Malay, Indian and other diverse dishes at low prices, with workers toiling long hours to perfect their dishes.

The food inflation at hawker centers was still below many common ingredients such as chilled poultry, eggs, noodles and pasta which registered double-digit growth. Core inflation held at 5.1% in December, with food prices rising for a 10th consecutive month.

— With assistance by Michelle Jamrisko

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[laksaboy]

Would have been much higher if some hawkers didn't 'downsize' the quantity.

You can get anything you want after bribing UNESCO sufficiently. Someone, somewhere within the PAP hierarchy personally made the nomination/award a major political KPI. The media went on and on about it. Roadshows popped up everywhere. I still remember.

 

[bobby]

Fake news....gahmen say inflation only 3%

 

[face the facts]

barchomee from $3.50 to $4.5 is 8.1%. ?
its 29%. FUCK PAP and all these fake reporting

 

[laksaboy]

Another secret: for the soupy noodles, you will find that the quantity of noodles and ingredients has been reduced, while there is noticeably much more of that soup. Better drink finish everything to get your money's worth.

 

[laksaboy]

barchomee from $3.50 to $4.5 is 8.1%. ?
its 29%. FUCK PAP and all these fake reporting

Alamak, your precious bakchormee isn't included in the 'basket of goods' when those statisticians are calculating inflation.

 

[CPTMiller]

Another secret: for the soupy noodles, you will find that the quantity of noodles and ingredients has been reduced, while there is noticeably much more of that soup. Better drink finish everything to get your money's worth.

Sinkies customers are the loser

 

[glockman]

Most of those hawkers are opportunistic assholes. They reduced quantity and increased price. And their food tastes like shit too.

 

[face the facts]

Most of those hawkers are opportunistic assholes. They reduced quantity and increased price. And their food tastes like shit too.

sadly the honest ones are retired or dead

 

[blackmondy]

Fake news....gahmen say inflation only 3%

Only idiots believe what Piss And Poop says.

 

[blackmondy]

The best places to eat cheap food are those old estates like Tangling Halt, Holland Road and Havelock Road where customers are mostly old folks and not that well-off. Eating at new towns like Punggol is like paying restaurant prices for hawker food.

 

[countryman]

Blame Putin n Zelensky.... They're the main cause of everything....

 

[tobelightlight]

Another secret: for the soupy noodles, you will find that the quantity of noodles and ingredients has been reduced, while there is noticeably much more of that soup. Better drink finish everything to get your money's worth.

My vegetarian prawn Mee noodle cost me $6 but not hawker, it's a restaurant Cafe.

 

[mojito]

Why u jelly hawker make more money? Only u can be more huat?

 

[ChenShuang]

The same goes to PAP pay

 

[A Singaporean]

This is great news. The poor Sinkies now will eat at home or jia sai. This is what happens when the 61% are retards who enjoy being arse fuck by PAP. Only foreigners can afford to eat at hawker centres. Majulah.

 

[borom]

The best part is that the biggest hawker centre owners are the so called " social enterprise arm " of NTUC - Foodfare and Kopitiam -so you see what PAP meant by symbiotic relationship.
Either you vote them out or you live with your present choice and stop complaining.

 

[Pinkieslut]

Good news. Sinkies should eat less, many are fatty boom boom, got diabetes or high cholesterol.

 

[searcher1]

 

[k1976]

But Hawker Centers are still very crowded