Nowadays everybody is shouting all items’ price go up, and living cost is getting tougher and tougher by days. I also notice that because Gardenia bread has gone up 20 cents to RM2.10 since December, and LRT monthly card also went up RM10 to RM100 which I have decided not to use but changed to stored value card instead, and hawker stalls food also go up between 20 cents to 50 cents, making my daily meal budget getting tighter than ever. I must admit this is bringing a lot of stress to my financial life and I couldn’t really run out from it since this is like the essential items of all.

Yet since I came to KL 18 months ago, the Nasi Lemak sold at LRT station is staying at RM1 per pack, the lovely Malay lady didn’t seem to have the urge to increase the price. Imagine, a bowl of steamy santan smell rice, with 3 slices of cucumber, a spoonful of roasted peanuts, a spoonful of ikan bilis (fried dried little fish), a quarter of an egg and a spoonful of sambal (sweet chili paste), wrapped in a nice oil paper and a plastic spoon provided, all in RM1. Can you imagine they could still earn money from that?

I used to eat about 2 packs per week, but due to various health reason (high cholesterol, high sugar, high carbohydrate, less vitamins etc) I stopped doing so but keep at a pace of about a pack per 2 weeks or so. But I couldn’t help to think if this traditional cuisine could stays at such price for so long, why couldn’t the rest do so? In my opinion, they only raise the price to earn more money because of everything else except their product has increased price, it wasn’t so much of the cost of their product itself got increased. This is such a bad cycle, further more my salary didn’t increase… sian…

this is overview of a pack of nasi lemak

yum yum~~ it looks plain because I always ask for less sambal

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