What the fuck is this NEA rule?

[BuiKia]

Is someone who is operating restaurants so afraid of competition from hawkers that he pushed for such rules to be implemented?

An "archaic" rule that hawkers holding National Environment Agency (NEA) licences must apply in writing if they want to sell "restaurant type" dishes has been scrapped.

Environment and Water Resources Minister Vivian Balakrishnan made the announcement on Monday night in a Facebook post.

He had apparently seen hawker-stall holder Daniel Goh's Facebook post last Friday about the licensing requirement.

Mr Goh, 39, who runs craft-beer stall The Good Beer Company at Chinatown Complex, said a neighbour had just renewed his licence and spotted the odd condition that "in the case of a cooked food stall, no restaurant type of dishes shall be sold unless the licensee has been authorised to do so in writing by the Director-General of Public Health".

 

[AhMeng]

they reserve the restaurant dishes to PAP porlumpar restaurant owners to make money lah

 

[laksaboy]

Is someone who is operating restaurants so afraid of competition from hawkers that he pushed for such rules to be implemented?

It's more like the pappies expect the hawkers to pay 'restaurant type' rent if they sell 'restaurant type' dishes.

The rent-seeking whores in govt keeping the peasants in their place.

 

[gingerlyn]

this rule is the same on dog license.
HDB owners are not allowed to keep big dogs but pet shops are allowed to keep big dogs in the tiny cages.

 

[Narong Wongwan]

Same as age of consent for sex.
16 if you dun pay her and 18 if you do.

 

[laksaboy]

Same as age of consent for sex.
16 if you dun pay her and 18 if you do.

Just reduce the age of consent to 15 for both prostitutes and non-prostitutes. Problem solved.

 

[tanwahtiu]

Was it suppose to mean restaurant type service but not the food?

When is a hawker stall a restaurant?

Even this monkey MP can agree? A hawker is a hawker how can it be restaurant?

Next thing is to come up with "Vivan Hawker Restaurant"?

Vivian? Is a she or him, by the sound of the name?

Is someone who is operating restaurants so afraid of competition from hawkers that he pushed for such rules to be implemented?

 

[Semaj2357]

now we know why he gave his famous reply in parleement on the 3 types of meals the poor could choose to eat at, hope he changes his impression and reflects on his answer that will haunt him forever.

 

[Leongsam]

The dumbest rules are the ones that govern this forum.

 

[AhMeng]

The dumbest rules are the ones that govern this forum.

well said...i have added to your points

 

[AhMeng]

Just reduce the age of consent to 15 for both prostitutes and non-prostitutes. Problem solved.

good point!

 

[escher]

It's more like the pappies expect the hawkers to pay 'restaurant type' rent if they sell 'restaurant type' dishes.

The rent-seeking whores in govt keeping the peasants in their place.

It is not the hawkers that pay.
It will be the sinkies that foot the final bill.

So that even more money will pour into their coffers to pay themselves and their fucking cheebye dogs here like steffychun

 

[Spock]

Suspect it was meant to prevent hawkers from charging restaurant type prices for those dishes.

 

[LITTLEREDDOT]

Actually, I think this could be a good rule, to protect the small hawker and consumers.

Take a look at these two comments on Straits Times Online:

http://www.straitstimes.com/breakin...-orders-nea-drop-archaic-hawker-rule-20140113

• Goh Hock Tee · NUS, SingaporeThe Minister and Daniel is wrong!. The reason for not wanting hawkerts to create 'restaurant' dishes is to keep food cost low for the lower 30 pc and not to stiffle creativity. Creativity always cost lots of money if there is demand - especially when mass production is not possible. This is counter-productive to govt's effort of introducing social enterprise to control cost.
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• Patrick Ching Toon GohI think we have to know the reason why that rule exist? Was it to prevent deep pocket restaurants from muscling out the hawkers who don't have the $$$ to rent or lease the hawker stalls.
  Looking at the "no rules" or restrictions for the so called retirement apartments launched recently, low income or savings retirees will be muscled out by those who can take long term loans to finance their purchases.
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​Before Vivian makes a knee-jerk response and scrap the rule, did he consult the senior NEA officials who knew the history and rationale of this ruling? I think it is to prevent rich restaurant operators from grabbing up all the hawker stalls and then charging expensive prices for restaurant-type of food.

The rich restaurant operators will have found a cheaper place to operate, the poor hawkers will be squeezed out of a living, and the customers will find that their daily meals would be more expensive. Now, with the scraping of the rule, this scenario that the good, old government was trying to prevent may happen.

 

[johnny333]

Same as age of consent for sex.
16 if you dun pay her and 18 if you do.

If both are minors & they have sex. It is the boy who gets punished even though he is also a minor.

 

[tanwahp]

Just asking NEA to remove and that's it? The senior guy should be rapped for this, because such rules would have been read by him.

Poor EQ is a very serious matter at work, and the higher the rank the more serious it is. What if some policy implemented goes unnoticed by minister?

 

[laksaboy]

If both are minors & they have sex. It is the boy who gets punished even though he is also a minor.

Indeed. The one with a penis is always at fault for sex crimes. Never mind if the boy was drunk and fast asleep, and the girl climbed on top of him and rode him like a pony.

 

[songsongjurong]

They want to keep food price to commensurate with dishes name.