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June 30, 2005
Nasi Lemak or "what about innocent price hikes?"
I love Sunday mornng, honestly. There is nothing better than sleeping in for a while, enjoying that everything is peaceful, stretching in bed, seeing my son doing his things. No rush, no stress, no looking at the watch, observing the traffic on the highway, getting grouchy.
Weekends are different.
I love (or, now, loved) to go down to our little shop in the apartment area, still sleepy, still with "the sandman" in my eyes, but feeling good, to buy the newspaper, and Nasi Lemak. Getting back, drinking coffee, chit-chatting with wife and kid, getting on track slowly.
Until about last week, when I followed the same routing. But the wake-up was a bit heavier this time, because the lady in the shop asked me for RM 5.70 for three Nasi Lemak and the newspaper. That's right, RM 5.70.
You do your own calculation - this is RM 1.50 for each Nasi Lemak. And this one is nothing special, actually quite small, no meat, but the fish (Ikan Bilis), some cucumber, one little egg and a few countable nuts.
Hmmm - are we that far down the road to inflation? I think I have to change my routing and drive down the road to buy Nasi Lemak, since I have the strange feeling, that this is the make up of the retail shop. But then, even around my office area, prices have gone up.
A few coins here and a few coins there. Inflation creeps in slowly, right, as I said a long time back in my old blog?
Posted by Andreas at June 30, 2005 10:04 AM
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hey..r u mean the plain nasi lemak?..hmm...RM 1.50 is expensive..they oni sell RM 1.00 at bandar utama...
Posted by: jennhuiwen at July 5, 2005 05:03 PM
That is the sad part - prices go up, quality and quantity goes down. We should cherrish the places that keep their style, their ambiente, serving customers well. I hope that there are a lot and that they flourish tremendously.
Posted by: Andreas at July 1, 2005 09:25 AM
hey, the nasi lemak at my place is RM2.50!!!!!!!!!! ok, maybe there's a lil bit more rice to it but still!!!
There's a nice nasi lemak place at Kg. Baru which I always go. CT Garden. I think some of you might have heard of it. It's crazy cheap and good there the nasi lemak. I'm not sure if they hiked the price yet coz I haven't been there for about a month already. And after nasi lemak, you can go to the nearby night market to get cempedak goreng...yummylicious =P
Posted by: S-Kay at June 30, 2005 12:18 PM
When the oil price goes up, everybody takes advantage :(
Posted by: BawangMerah at June 30, 2005 11:44 AM
I get my Mamak Nasi Lemak for RM1.70. Same stuff as yours but extra 2 small pieces of chix. I will make it a point to smile at Mamak tomorrow. :) You must be living in Bangsar or someplace like that. Anyway, shops are dearer than stalls. Minus the chix, it only costs RM1.00 in most places.
Posted by: percolator at June 30, 2005 11:22 AM
The price increased here happened a few weeks ago. The 'makcik' selling nasi lemak and kuih muih in front of apartment block where I live keep chattering 'I'm sorry. We have to increase the price'. Last time the kuih price is 30 cent/piece. Now 40 - 50 cent/piece.
Posted by: rzmie at June 30, 2005 11:19 AM
Prices have gone up, but the taste has gone down. It's hard to find a great-tasting nasi lemak these days ....
Posted by: metria at June 30, 2005 10:29 AM