Do you think things are getting riddiculous expensive?
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One day I was eating the ngo hiang prawn cracker thingy with bee hoon at a Toa Payoh coffee shop and it cost me $12.50.... :yikes: The stall keeper said it was because of the sotong and the special red sausage which was only a few pieces.
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no leh, the pomfret not that big…wah, market now also expensive, siaan lah.
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piyobaby:
It is so difficult to find food in hawker centers which cost less than $3 for a miserable portion! Not to mention every trip to supermarket cost more than $50 and end up wif so few items!
that's cheap. Our supermarket trip is usually > $100 -
Seriously I feel dat buying from market can b more costly than supermarket purchases, only advantage is freshness.
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My Indonesian helper is complaining rice is very expensive now in Indo because of draught. Chaotic weather pattern is going to make life more difficult for many people
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tankee:
Think supermarket trips easily chalk up to few hundreds a month for our small family of 3, excluding diapers & formula milk!piyobaby:
It is so difficult to find food in hawker centers which cost less than $3 for a miserable portion! Not to mention every trip to supermarket cost more than $50 and end up wif so few items!
that's cheap. Our supermarket trip is usually > $100 -
piyobaby:
Seriously I feel dat buying from market can b more costly than supermarket purchases, only advantage is freshness.
wet market is more expensive but I know the stall holder so well that if I say it is not fresh, I get free replacement, no question asked. it is the 'honour' system
these days I don't pick the item (sea food) -- just let the stall holder pick for me and he will guarantee it, or don't pay. loyalty's little privileges -
smurf:
no leh, the pomfret not that big...wah, market now also expensive, siaan lah.
for CNY pricing it is S$65 per kg for exactly the same thing! -
verykiasu2010:
So it pays to be loyal! Personally prefer wet market shopping, pretty interesting.piyobaby:
Seriously I feel dat buying from market can b more costly than supermarket purchases, only advantage is freshness.
wet market is more expensive but I know the stall holder so well that if I say it is not fresh, I get free replacement, no question asked. it is the 'honour' system
these days I don't pick the item (sea food) -- just let the stall holder pick for me and he will guarantee it, or don't pay. loyalty's little privileges -
verykiasu2010:
The same apply for thread fin, double in price sometime triple.smurf:
no leh, the pomfret not that big...wah, market now also expensive, siaan lah.
for CNY pricing it is S$65 per kg for exactly the same thing!
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