Channel NewsAsia - Monday, June
30
SINGAPORE : Consumers who feel that eating out is getting
expensive will be glad to know that 60 per cent of stalls surveyed
are still selling their favourite dishes at below S$2.50.
This is according to the Consumers Association of Singapore
(CASE), which conducted a recent survey of 388 hawker centres and
coffeeshops around the island.
Consumers can still tuck into chicken rice, fishball noodles and
nasi briyani at some stalls at an affordable price, according to
CASE.
Lim Biow Chuan, Vice—President, CASE, said: "We were initially
under the impression that cooked food prices are quite high. So we
are quite pleasantly surprised to find out that there are quite a
large number of stalls that are selling cooked food for S$2.50 and
below."
The Association checked out the stalls in late May and early
June.
From its survey, consumers can find the most number of cheap
cooked food stalls in the South Zone areas like Bukit Merah, Queen
Street and Queenstown.
However, CASE did not find any foodstalls with prices below
S$2.00 in the west zone area.
Still, the consumer watchdog said it was a random survey and so
not all prices at food stalls islandwide have been captured. —
CNA/ms
