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Cheaper nasi kandar, teh tarik and roti canai now
By LISA GOH

KUALA LUMPUR: Consumers have reason to smile as the price of nasi kandar, teh tarik and roti canai should see some immediate reduction from its current selling price.
Nasi kandar will see a reduction of 20sen a plate, while roti canai (and other roti items such as roti telur, roti pisang etc) and teh tarik will see a reduction of 10sen each.
This is because the Muslim Restaurant Operators Association (Presma) and the Malaysian Indian Restaurant Owners’ Association (Primas) have decided to support the Government’s move on price reduction.
However, there was no fixed maximum price for these three food items as the price reduction is on a voluntary basis.
Domestic Trade and Consumer Affairs Minister Datuk Shahrir Abdul Samad said that consumers could check the prices against the price list in restaurants.
“All such restaurants must have a price list. It’s an offence for them not to have one,” he told the press Monday after launching the Price Reduction Campaign here. Presma president Jamarulkhan Kadir said that the prices of the three items, however, would differ depending on the location of the restaurants.
“Of course the price of teh tarik in Bangsar and Balakong would be different,” he said.
Jamarulkhan said that the price range in the Klang Valley was between RM4 and RM5.50 for nasi kandar, RM0.90 and RM1.50 for teh tarik, and RM0.70 and RM1.20 for roti canai.
“We will start with our 200 members in the Klang Valley first, and soon we hope this move would be adopted by all our 4,500 members nationwide.
“As for restaurants which refuse to bring their prices down, consumers can choose to not eat there, and go to another restaurant which supports this campaign,” he said.
Asked if such a move would incur losses for the restaurant operators, he replied:
“No, it will only lower our profit margin.”
He was also asked if there were plans to include more items for price reduction, to which he said, “Slowly lah.”

I can't believe that even the reporter is as kiasu as this! I didn't stop laughing for about 10 minutes...*sigh* Malaysia sweet Malaysia. This is really how I remember it.

Three weeks and counting...

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