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$3.50 and below: Good eats at these 10 hawker and coffee-shop stalls
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More hawkers have done away with $3 or $3.50 options, with $4 or $4.50 being the new prices for a standard plate of chicken rice or a bowl of noodles in recent years.
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SINGAPORE – Upping the price of her white carrot cake to $4 would be more profitable, but carrot cake seller Claire Huang is keeping it priced at $3.50 after designating it as a budget meal.
The 35-year-old, who runs Carrot Cubes at an HDB coffee shop, readily agreed when the coffee-shop operator approached her to offer a budget meal in December 2023.

