I ordered one of my favorite sweet dessert soup; the sweet potato soup with sago from this stall I used to blog about in my food blog in the Cecil Road market a few weeks ago and I was surprised to be asked for an additional payment of 30 cents to the usual price I paid.
The bowl of 'tong sui' now costs RM1.50; where it used to cost RM1.20 (previously it was only RM0.90, then RM1 if you were to have it there. Only take-aways will be charged at an additional price of 10cents)
I have not even asked the question but the old auntie straightaway explained that the sugar price had increased and they had to increase the price of their desserts.
Yeah, that was definitely a reasonable and justificable explanation for the price increase; only this; the price of sugar increased by 25 cents per kg.
Hawkers or food providers truly take full advantage of the situation by increasing each plate/bowl/serving of their food by the same amount which the increase is applicable to kgs.
It is definitely outrageous and despicable; do you honestly think we are going to buy the story that you used the whole kg to make this one bowl of dessert soup?
I find it ridiculous how these vendors are justifying themselves on something which seemed so illogical; just to maximize their profits despite calls by the government warning vendors not to increase prices in their sector drastically.
It seemed that these calls fell on deaf ears.
Everyone is affected; of course, despite the assurance that there will be controls over unreasonable vendors like these.
The price of sugar was not the only one affected too; as we have been hit with yet another round of price hike in petrol.
I have even lost count of the number of times petrol has increased in this year; and this year alone.
What is going on here?
If everything is facing dire circumstances due to the revoking of subsidies, then how about the wages of us working people?
We have been stretched to work our butts off to earn a decent living to be able to afford some basic necessities and to place food on the table and by the time we earn enough, things are not the same anymore and we find that we need to work even harder.
Our wages do not seem to be taking after the same pattern; one hike after another.
There are some who were much worse, they have even lost their jobs.
Do we really want to force people to the extent of robbing or stealing from others in order to send their children to school, or to put food on the table?
Do we really want the next hike to be in the crime rates as well?
It has been a neverending story of the reason of all the price hikes; and fuel itself has already been ascending that ladder since, I can't even remember when.
The price hikes are not minimal nor negligible; as the price hike of 20 cents and above do make a great difference.
Just the other day, I was trying to replenish the supply of my products, and I was surprised to be told that the prices would increase soon too.
What, since when beauty products/cosmetics use sugar or fuel too?
For goodness sake, these are not even local products.
Then I went for dinner and parked the car in the carpark which usually charges RM1 flat rate for the parking and you guessed right, they told us that it is now RM1.50
Yeah, do you pave your car park floors with sugar and fuel?
Everything is on the rise, and I am telling you, poverty and crime rates will soon follow.
I am disappointed with all these constant hikes; and I pray for those who are struggling to get through their daily lives with a meager earning of less than a 1,000 and even those who are jobless.
Let's hope that there will be more consideration before the next hike and also that all those vendors would also be more rational in their pricing.
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