Teo Chee Hean: "$1.80 Chicken Rice @ Pasir Ris Blk 446"

[laksaboy]

PAP IB has already posted a similar pic in an earlier post on this thread here... any more new material from you pappy shills?

 

[vtran2684]

huh??????????

 

[GoldenPeriod]

OCBC oligarch family needs to show he's just like you, the working class.

 

[vtran2684]

OCBC oligarch family needs to show he's just like you, the working class.

fake admiral trying to show he's a sailor

 

[LEGEND]

PAP IB has already posted a similar pic in an earlier post on this thread here... any more new material from you pappy shills?

Kena activated on short notice mah.

 

[xingguy]

PAP IB has already posted a similar pic in an earlier post on this thread here... any more new material from you pappy shills?

Response from TR EMERITUS

A sad story behind $1.80 chicken rice in DPM’s GRC

Yesterday (30 Mar), TRE published an article reporting that DPM Teo shared a photo of chicken rice with netizens on Saturday (29 Mar), with the following message (‘DPM Teo advertises $1.80 chicken rice in his GRC‘):

“lunch only $1.80 at Pasir Ris Blk 446″​

The photo actually originated from BBM holder and Chairman of Pasir Ris West CCC, Ng Cher Pheng (https://www.facebook.com/ng.cherpheng). He posted the photo on his own Facebook page and shared it with DPM Teo on Friday (28 Mar).

The grassroots leader posted the photo with the message: “Lunch only $1.80 @Blk446“. DPM Teo then added the words, “Pasir Ris” to make the message clearer when he re-posted Mr Ng’s photo on his own Facebook page.

After DPM Teo posted the photo on his Facebook page [Link], some netizens expressed doubt. One said:

“MP not same ma we go sure $5 dollar confirm”​

DPM Teo then assured the netizens:

“Come and try it for yourself, like Cher Pheng, our Pasir Ris resident who had his lunch there and posted this up.”​

After reading DPM Teo’s $1.80 chicken rice “advertisement”, TRE sent a correspondent down to Blk 446 at Pasir Ris Dr 6 today (31 Mar) to verify. Indeed, there was a stall inside a coffee shop at Blk 446 selling chicken rice:

Coffee shop at Blk 446 Pasir Ris Dr 6​

And indeed, TRE found that the stall was selling a plate of chicken rice for $1.80:

TRE correspondent ordered a plate of chicken rice for $1.80​

Chicken Rice on Promotion

However, TRE would like to emphasize that the $1.80 for a plate of chicken rice at Blk 446 is only a promotional price. That means, it’s not meant to be permanent:

Chicken rice selling at $1.80 promotional price at Pasir Ris Blk 446 currently​

TRE talked to the hawker to find out more.

The hawker said that he has been selling chicken rice at the promotional price of $1.80 for 3 weeks now. The regular price is $2.50 which is also indicated on the stall panel above the promotion banner.

The hawker said he started selling chicken rice at the Blk 446 stall only a few months ago. Previously, he was selling chicken rice at Tampines central. But because of the ridiculous rental which keeps increasing at Tampines, he has no choice but to close shop and move to Pasir Ris. At the moment, he said the rental of his stall at Blk 446 is still manageable.

However, he is concerned of his business. He told TRE, “This is lunch time now and you can see how big the crowd is.” Indeed, although there were people buying his chicken rice, the crowd is not that great despite offering the promotional price of $1.80 a plate.

When asked how long he is going to keep his chicken rice promotion going, he sighed, “See lah”.

High rentals are beginning to cause some of the F&B outlets to close shop. The Alternative View reported yesterday (30 Mar) that the famous Hong Kong Jin Tian Eating House at Tiong Bahru will be ceasing its business from next month (‘Another famous eating house quits due to high rental‘). The reason? The landlord increased rental by 50% to $12,000 after seeing the coffee shop opposite rented out its stalls for $20,000.

DPM Teo, as MP of Pasir Ris-Punggol GRC should be more discerned when his grassroots tells him that there is dirt cheap hawker food in his constituency. There is an old saying, “If it sounds too good to be true, it probably is.”

Rather than trying to score political points by touting food is cheap in his constituency, DPM Teo should go talk to the hawker to find out if there is any story behind it. This is what it means to be “staying close to the ground”. If he is too busy, he should send his grassroots to find out more.

But then again, his own grassroots leader, Ng Cher Pheng, instead of finding out more about the story behind the $1.80 promotional price, quickly put up a Facebook message, “Lunch only $1.80 @Blk446“, to inform DPM Teo about it without mentioning that it is a promotional price in the message.

Are PAP MPs and grassroots close to the ground and do they really understand the ground?

What do you think?

 

[GoldenPeriod]

So it's actually a sad story.

 

[steffychun]

target his GRC come 2016!

 

[Confuseous]

So it's actually a sad story.

As sad as when Ting Pei Ling proudly proclaimed that the hawkers in her ward were holding their prices.
What the silly woman did not know is that while the statement was true, the noodle seller was dishing out fewer fish cakes and less noodles.
Such is the pathetic state of mind of our "leaders".

 

[xingguy]

Old fart got extra egg for his char kway teow.
Grassroot leaders got extra chicken liver for his chicken rice

Membership has its privileges

Normal peasant's $1.80 chicken rice

Grassroot leader's $1.80 chicken rice

Orginal link: https://www.facebook.com/ng.cherpheng

 

[bushtucker]

1.80 when MP visits, 2.50 the next day. Typical balls carrier sinkie hawker.

 

[steffychun]

1.80 when MP visits, 2.50 the next day. Typical balls carrier sinkie hawker.

why you blame the hawker? Tough life. why dont you try?

 

[laksaboy]

Old fart got extra egg for his char kway teow.
Grassroot leaders got extra chicken liver for his chicken rice

Membership has its privileges

Normal peasant's $1.80 chicken rice
Grassroot leader's $1.80 chicken rice

Even the number of cucumber slices are different.

The food sellers should stop sucking up to those crassloot leeders... they won't lower your rent, you die is your biz.

I have seen many bakeries, barber shops, grocery shops get driven out of business due to high rental in the HDB heartlands.
The rent always increases after the completion of some upgrading project.

Only loanshark shops and tuition centres thrive now.

Remember:

The pappies will never give something for nothing, or give back what they have taken.

They are consummate businessmen, but when manifested in politics, they are nothing more than penny-pinching scumbags.

 

[Untouchable]

Sinkie 1.80 no chicken spare parts, Crass Loot Leader 1.80 have chicken spare parts. OH!!!!!!!!!!

 

[winnipegjets]

Come Jan 2016, PAP will announce that $1.80 chicken rice will be available at all hawker centres in PAP wards. Kee Chiu will be leading the charge to reduce prices of chicken rice to $1.80 with NO reduction in quantity of meat, rice or garnishing.

 

[steffychun]

Come Jan 2016, PAP will announce that $1.80 chicken rice will be available at all hawker centres in PAP wards. Kee Chiu will be leading the charge to reduce prices of chicken rice to $1.80 with NO reduction in quantity of meat, rice or garnishing.

Kee Chiu will make it free for TP GRC and renamed it LKY rice.