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Ministers should never give speeches just before lunchtime. I have no idea how making a choice to eat cheap or expensive carrot cake has anything to do with ministerial pay. MG Chan is making the assumption here that paying $10 for XO carrot cake is necessarily money well spent, and that eating an otherwise hawker staple in a fancy restaurant ‘makes us happy’. Purists of the Chai Tau Kway hawker school would beg to differ; I wouldn’t spend $10 on carrot cake in Peach Garden, excellent service and free towelettes notwithstanding. Perhaps MG Chan was making a point that his ‘Peach Garden’ colleagues are value for money and worth every cent, though this concept veers dangerously close to Goh Chok Tong’s ‘peanuts for monkeys’ analogy back in 1993.
- http://everythingalsocomplain.com/2012/01/16/chan-chun-sings-chai-tau-kway/
- http://everythingalsocomplain.com/2012/01/16/chan-chun-sings-chai-tau-kway/