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Kill People Put Fire
Apparently, this overcharging incident has been circulating in the email circuit for quite some time already before Lexandria forwarded it to me.
Initially, I thought it was one of those food disasters pictures like a rat's head in the bowl of porridge or a finger tip in the fried rice type.
This, in my opinion, is worse for the earlier examples were accidents (assuming not an act of deliberate sabotage) while this act of price gouging is premeditated.
How the hell can a bowl of YongTauFoo cost $19.20??!! Food court leh.... you think this is Mandarin Hotel har?
Cripsy Prawn Cake for $3.20??!!
This is totally absurd.
Really Kill People Put Fire man!!!
Surely there must be a mistake?
What did the price list on the store front say?
If the price list on the store front is the same as that on the receipt then ok fine, perhaps this person took it for granted by not checking the prices first. So by the time he/she realised kena ketork by the stall, lan lan must pay cause it was his/her own fault for not checking prices first.
Otherwise, I would feel that there is the element of fraud in there and had it been me, I would just shove the YongTauFoo back to the stall and refuse to pay.
So to those who may be heading to the Food Republic at VivoCity, do swing by Ah Koong Restaurant and take a look at the store. Are the prices really so ridiculously expensive or is this just a misunderstanding.
To be honest, I am unable to verify the authenticity of this receipt as it was emailed to me via circulation and as such, I cannot rule out the possibility of the receipt being a product of clever photoshop editing.
I guess the sure way is the go to the store itself to verify.
Do drop me a comment here if anyone of you is heading over to Ah Koong Restaurant.
- Voxeros
erm, does a plate of nasi briyani from the same foodcourt, cost $7, counted
in the list? speaking of it, i would blog about it.. lucky im not the one
that kana..
Gary: At least yours was under $10 but $19.20 for YongTauFoo??!!?
WTF??!!
it's reported in some newspaper yest... confirmed it's real. the owner
claimed their ingredients are very fresh imported from msia... what
irony...... i'm not going there even how great the yong tao foo is.. oh yes
heard that the qty ordered is enuff for 2 ppl..hmm shrug
The newspaper reported owner said the fish used is xi dao yu.. and very
very fresh... Lots of ice used the whole time to ensure the freshness..
Prices are stated and customers informed of prices before cooking... So
dont know who is right or wrong liao.. But i think i rather stick to the
normal fish.. only cost me 2-3 bucks.. hahaha
I'm sure that is the price stated. You can only blame the fella for being
stupid and not asking. I had nasi lemak there for $6 plus bucks too, but
that IS the listed price. The shop did nothing wrong loh. If they
overcharge, they will lose customers, ain't it? It's very clear. Just order
with your eyes open, especially at Food Republic at Vivo. I never go there
anymore, because the food at the hawker centres are nicer and much cheaper.
In fact, I dislike ALL food courts.
Spinnee: So what? They insinuating that everybody else serve unfresh
stuff?
Chocolate Gal: Well, Bandung Vader wasn't very much of a gal to look
at in the first place.
RN: You see even $6 nasi lemak is under $10, but a $19.20 Yong Tau
Foo?? WTF??!!
Yo bro .. the food there is overall very expensive. Republic is sort of an
"upmarket" food court. So expect it to be 1.5 times more expensive than
normal food court. But that aside, $19 of Yong Tau Foo is still
RIDUCULOUS!! Haha!!
YoungJedi:' Yes, I am aware of such food courts but anything above
$10 is just wrong!
pls la. 7 bucks for nais briyani also wanna complain...
naeboo: You refering to Ringgit or Singapore dollar?