50-cent breakfast for elderly, bad!

[huahero]

50 cent may be cheap breakfast but very unhealthly for our elderly, 小心高胆固醇 High cholesterol!

For a mere 50 cents, the elderly residents of the Punggol South constituency are able to enjoy a breakfast set of a cup of coffee, two eggs and two slices of toasted bread at three coffee shops in Hougang Avenue 8.

Called "Community Breakfast", the initiative was the brainchild of two Hougang coffee- shop owners - Mr Tan Boon Kiat and Mr Ang Tian Chua - and is a collaboration with the Punggol South grassroots organisations.

The initiative, which got its start about two months ago, aims to benefit residents aged 50 and above. Eligible residents must take along a coupon, which entitles them to the 50-cent breakfast.

The Punggol South organisations contribute 50 cents towards each meal, while the remaining cost of the breakfast set is absorbed by the coffee shops, which charge over $2.50 per set.

One resident, Madam Lau Pay Choo, a 62-year-old retiree, applauded the initiative for the cost savings she gets to enjoy.

"This helps me save quite a bit on food," said Madam Lau, who spends around $100 on breakfasts monthly.

 

[Narong Wongwan]

Coffee shops so good absorb the remaining costs?
Everyday eat same thing?

 

[Kinana]

Good initiative by these grass roots volunteers

 

[Cestbon]

WP Hougang really good.
50 cent is selling at lost.
Coffee cost 30 cent.
2 egg 40 cent.
Bread 30 cent.
Total $1 for the ingredient cost.

 

[Kinana]

Hougang Ave belongs to PAP, not WP.

 

[Cruxx]

When I feed the poor, they call me a saint. When I ask why they are poor, they call me a communist

 

[Narong Wongwan]

Breakfast eat already then lunch and dinner eat what?
Swiss standard of living for you......

 

[Cruxx]

WP Hougang really good.
50 cent is selling at lost.
Coffee cost 30 cent.
2 egg 40 cent.
Bread 30 cent.
Total $1 for the ingredient cost.

Very good indeed. Spend a few thousand dollars, make a few millions off the life savings of the gullible. There's not a better MLM in Singapore than the PAP.

 

[Cruxx]

Coffee shops so good absorb the remaining costs?
Everyday eat same thing?

They should be contented with what they get. The moment they complain about the lack of variety, PAP and their brainwashed supporters will come along and admonish Singaporeans for being "westernised" and "soft". Indulgence is un-Asian. To be a proud Asian is to suffer in silence and acquiesce to authority. Yes, people in countries like Japan, Hong Kong and Taiwan may protest against their betters from time to time. But we must understand that only Singapore can represent the true essence of Asian values.

 

[streetsmart73]

Hougang Ave belongs to PAP, not WP.

hi there


1. since you mentioned this.
2. is the area in question has poor individuals recently or the poor individuals are already there?
3. how about the elderly?
4. things don't just happen yesterday!
5. get real.
6. if your masters have the hearts, should have done this and MORE a long time ago!
7. now, how about lunch & dinner?
8. such individuals eat grass or what!

 

[Alamaking]

Actually its a good deal, no complains

 

[Narong Wongwan]

bread give you those leftovers cannot sell finish one.
kopi is watered down one.
Coffeeshops are not charity.....unless the cost is $1 for that $2.50 set....if not the coffeeshop will find ways and means to recover that 'absorb the cost'

 

[halsey02]

Since they never mentioned the coffeeshop or location, punggol south would be? http://www.streetdirectory.com/asia_travel/travel/travel_id_15083/travel_site_84647/ I thought they would be invited the elderly GMS for Hainanese Curry Rice, for 25cts...but this not the part of Hougang he would be in.... ha ha ha ha

They should mentioned the coffee shop name & address so that all the elderly can go and have a 50cts breakfast.. do they have to be MEMEBERS??:p

 

[red amoeba]

at least we have some initiatives by ground level to do something, whether or not, behind the scene egged on by government or not.

but 2.50 for egg + bread + coffee is tad too much to pay. you better off buying coffee and prepare the rest at home.

 

[newbird9403]

WP Hougang really good.
50 cent is selling at lost.
Coffee cost 30 cent.
2 egg 40 cent.
Bread 30 cent.
Total $1 for the ingredient cost.

WP where got so good to give such offer.

Wake up

 

[newbird9403]

bread give you those leftovers cannot sell finish one.
kopi is watered down one.
Coffeeshops are not charity.....unless the cost is $1 for that $2.50 set....if not the coffeeshop will find ways and means to recover that 'absorb the cost'

Why you tried the breakfast already or you are just assuming.
NB some kind souls give cheap meal you also want to criticise.
You red eyse isit.

 

[Narong Wongwan]

Why you tried the breakfast already or you are just assuming.
NB some kind souls give cheap meal you also want to criticise.
You red eyse isit.

kind souls? you met the coffeeshop owners already or you are just assuming?
real philanthropists dun do charity in this manner.......
need example? google the jackpot aunty aka Mdm Choo the vegetarian foodstall hawker.

 

[jw5]

When I feed the poor, they call me a saint. When I ask why they are poor, they call me a communist

What do they call u when u ask them whether they voted pappy?

 

[Robert Half]

bread give you those leftovers cannot sell finish one.
kopi is watered down one.
Coffeeshops are not charity.....unless the cost is $1 for that $2.50 set....if not the coffeeshop will find ways and means to recover that 'absorb the cost'

I think the coupon will allow the coffeeshop owners to claim back the remainder for WP.

No losses to them (kopi tiam).

 

[streetsmart73]

I think the coupon will allow the coffeeshop owners to claim back the remainder for WP.

No losses to them (kopi tiam).

hi there


1. let see whether is there any expiration on such kind gesture or what?
2. or whether such kind act can be repeated in other wards?
3. especially when daft sheep & running dogs always proclaimed having hearts for the common dafter sheep.
4. hahaha! till the cows cometh home then!