Hawkers keep prices down despite rising costs


Keeping it affordable: Sagar said the price of his food has remained the same for the past four years when met at the Batu Lanchang market in Penang. With him is his wife Kamala. — LIM BENG TATT/The Star

GEORGE TOWN: The famous seafood char koay kak at the Batu Lanchang market remains at RM4 a plate and the price of the cucur udang (prawn fritters) there has been unchanged for four years.

Hawkers here are keeping their dishes at affordable prices despite the recent hikes in the price of ingredients and cooking oil.

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