Big price hike in Little India
 THE days of cheap and good food in Klang’s Little India are over! Action needed: Devadass with a copy of the complaint letter sent by KCA. The cost of two pieces of capati and a glass of teh tarik, which used to cost about RM4, has shot up to more than RM5. The Klang Consumers Association (KCA) is obviously fuming over the recent indiscriminate price increase by the operators of food outlets. According to KCA chairman A. Devadass, it is certainly unreasonable to charge RM5.20 for two pieces of capati and a glass of teh tarik for breakfast, but that is what the food stalls are doing. Devadass said the price of a piece of idli (rice flour dumpling) had gone up from 70sen to 90sen and it was the same case with string hoppers (putumayam). “A customer who eats three pieces of any of those stuff with a glass of tea or coffee will have to pay RM4.20 for their breakfast whereas they would have paid less than RM3 earlier,” he said. “The price of thosai has increased from RM1.20 to RM1.50 per piece and a glass of fresh milk is going for RM1.90 from RM1.70 earlier,” Devadass told StarMetro. |
posted by Francis Xavier at 4:07 PM
