A restaurant in Selangor offered a "nasi inflasi" (inflation rice) meal consisting of rice, vegetable, egg, sardine sambal and a glass of lemonade. - The Straits Times/ANN
KUALA LUMPUR, July 28 (The Straits Times/ANN): Administration clerk Muhammad Faizal Taib said he struggled in the past two years to get by on his monthly budget of RM250 for food.
But that changed recently, due to the generosity of some food operators, who are now offering "economy meals" for as little as RM3.50 a plate.
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