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Minimum wage roundtable: $15 okay for bowl of ramen, but not more than $3 for hawker food?
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Yasmine Yahya
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A Singaporean may be willing to pay $15 for a bowl of ramen or $20 for pasta, and yet would insist on hawker fare costing no more than $3.
This disparity was pointed out by Ambassador-at-Large Tommy Koh on Friday when he urged Singaporeans to be willing to pay more for hawker food, so that hawkers can earn more.
