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    Do you think things are getting riddiculous expensive?

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      piyobaby
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      Seriously I feel dat buying from market can b more costly than supermarket purchases, only advantage is freshness.

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        kayetch
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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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          piyobaby
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          tankee:
          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

          Think supermarket trips easily chalk up to few hundreds a month for our small family of 3, excluding diapers & formula milk!

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            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

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              verykiasu2010
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              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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                piyobaby
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                verykiasu2010:
                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

                So it pays to be loyal! Personally prefer wet market shopping, pretty interesting.

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                  piyobaby
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                  verykiasu2010:
                  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!

                  The same apply for thread fin, double in price sometime triple.

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                    Augmum
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                    piyobaby:
                    verykiasu2010:

                    [quote=\"piyobaby\"]

                    Got to eat potato le!

                    Russet potato is about S$5 per bag ? got to eat Indo or Viet potato liao

                    Next alternative would hv to go for sweet potato! Hee[/quote]haha...go back to our grandparents/parents era, eat tapioca n sweet potatoes....... :boogie:
                    anyway, i luv tapioca n sweet potatoes kuehs

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                      Augmum:
                      piyobaby:


                      Next alternative would hv to go for sweet potato! Hee

                      haha...go back to our grandparents/parents era, eat tapioca n sweet potatoes....... :boogie:
                      anyway, i luv tapioca n sweet potatoes kuehs

                      Most probably our kids will starve or at least mine will, not a fan of sweet potato. Haa

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                        verykiasu2010
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                        Augmum:


                        haha...go back to our grandparents/parents era, eat tapioca n sweet potatoes....... :boogie:
                        anyway, i luv tapioca n sweet potatoes kuehs
                        these days hard to get the yellow-flesh tapioca which taste much nicer

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