restaurant foods now cheaper than hawker's

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ALL HAWKER PRICES ARE UP!!

better eat in restaurants now. they are cheaper cos prices are down. surprise, surprise!!

for example, ah yat is giving 50% discount on ALL dimsums, mon to sat. during sundays and public holidays, it's 40% discount. same goes for all their ala carte live seafood.

for example their char siew paos, 3 in a basket originally cost $3.80. after 50% discount, it was only less than $2! which means each pao is about less than 80c. cheaper or more expensive than hawker centres?? most of their dimsums were about this range.

last week was at ah yat's turf city. something very illogical happened. till now i still don't get the mathematical equation.

one live tien lor or the jap water snail costs $2.30 ea i.e, after discount. but if u order their special dishes during that day, a bowl of 10 tien lors cooked in soupy ginger and spring onions cost only $4.80. by algebra, it should be like $23! but it only cost $4.80!!

this is what i mean restaurant foods are getting cheaper but hawker foods are getting more expensive. what's the logic here? i also dunno.

i remember eating sri lankan crab not long ago at a hawker centre and was billed like $40. at ah yat's , they chose the live crab, show it to u and if u were satisfised cooked it to the flavor u want. i was recommended the cheesy pumpking crab. yummy!! it was delicious especailly the gravy. the crab was loaded with roes some more which was an added bonus. we ordered fried man tou to dip in the gravy and really cleaned up every shiok drop!

when the bill came, the cost of the cheesy pumpkin crab was only $19.80!! can u believe this price?? we only ordered one cos we were expecting the price might be about $60 but it was lesser than $20. my god!!

it was a value for money worth meal that i was just to glad to foot. of course there were other speciality we ordered like the alaskan long legged crap. simply yummy!! though a bit expensive $169, it was well -worth it!! then there was the peking duck, the braised abalone and etc....all well worth it!!

so what's wrong here? hawker prices are supposed to be very affordable and reasonable but after u order the food, u don't feel that it's value for money. serving shrinks, quality drops and the bloody prices escalated from $2 to $2.50 or even $3 or higher which is about at least 25% increase.

now our public transport. u wait for the bus, it like it's never going to cum. u enter a mrt cabin, it's like a stuff heat sardine can....and the bloody gov is definitely going to approve the fares increase.

rear ass lui who wayang in taking public transport, what would he do? cook up some bombastic reasoning with even more bombastic figures to endorse such increase. he's like voted in by the SMRT OR SBS but not the voters.

so u ask: what the hell are the mps and minitoots idiotic sgporeans voted in for?? for us or for the profiteering public listed companies with their obscene profits??

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since i m a conossieur in good food and value for money, maybe i would share all the very value-worth makan places with u. how's that?
 
goodie! zi yean now doesn't charge gst and 10% service for dining in their higher class air-cond restaurant.
 
ah yat at river valley now serves dim sum from 11pm to 2pm without GST & service charge!

so after ZOUK, it would be a good idea to pump back all the calories lost while letting off steam in the disco there.
 
by the way, if those who are ZI YEAN's dimsum fans, pls be aware that they always calculate the bills wrongly! the skinny waiter chap with the coffin-faced is really bad in maths. do check for the mistake and claim for refund for the excesses he hantams in. damn jialat!!

a pre-makan warning: try avoid the lady boss. if u see her lagi more coffin-faced, sure lose appetitie!

no more 50% discount on dimsums. it's only 30% and all their prices have increased. one good thing is now u can hv dimsum at less 30% whole day fr mon - fri including for dinner.

i won't recommend RED STAR RESTAURANT which is now very expensive but surprisingly very crowded now unlike last time where u had more waitresses than patrons. their foods now are heavily laden with msg. the throat feels very tight and thristy after eating there. everything has risen quite ridiculously high now.

for value for money economics, ah yat is much preferred. cheaper and faster service and dimsums are less 50% so are their live seafoods.
 
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