I love this when he said, "It's just that they're not Instagram-friendly, but they're Instagram-tasty" This is so true, people will choose the look, watching your those influencers said this food is good, but actually not or just so-so. People will choose a place that is we called aesthetic not even care about the taste. Just because we want to go into the hype.
AGREE COMPLETELY! In the future, hawker food might not even be this affordable anymore due to inflation. Treasure what we currently have and show them our support! 💪🏻💪🏻💪🏻
I also have thought of this for a long time..ever since the lockdown started.. how these uncle and aunty gonna survive because I didn't found them on the delivery food apps.. it's sad to watch this actually.. on how the other hawkers that has closed down their business.. how are they now? I hope that all of us will go through this "time" safely..
Bravo Seetoh & oGS. I've always admire Seetoh's passion to speak out for the undermined social media unsavvy hawkers. Small businesses who GENUINELY deliver (relative) quality products and/or spirit. No fluff. I always respect entrepreneurial spirit but opportunistic sharks is a different story.
I live near Jalan Bersah and I have stopped using Grab. Now walking to the foodcourt and take away from these hawkers there. Hope the lockdown will end soon
Great. 👍 I use Grab for sending stuffs or transport only. If buy food, I call hawkers and pick up by myself. Even brought my own tiffin for hot food, reducing plastic waste. 😂
I am Indonesian, i used to visit Singapore regularly before covid. I always like the food in hawker centre. Hawker centres are integral part of Singaporean's life. I hope this covid pandemic can pass quickly and I wish those food sellers can endure this pandemic
Thank you Mr KF Seetoh for this real and eye-opening video. Hawker culture is in our blood and we really should be getting out there to support them. Your quote really stood out to me "There's no such thing as lousy compassion if it was sincere from the get go". It might not be much, but me and my friends are working on a web app, projecthawker.com and we aim to get all these unseen hawkers listed at a single place so people can easily find them. We are not making any money, just out to really help our hawkers out. Of course, we dabao from them as much as possible too :) To anyone reading, please consider checking Project Hawker out and recommending your favourite hawker stalls, so they can be found and heard. 🙏
Good. Let share some ideas 1. Hawker centres are managed by TCs. Therefore they should be part of the enrolment of hawkers into this effort. There is an element of gov as “caring” and also legitimacy 2. There need a civic institute to standardised a format platform for online ordering. This platform would then need to be farmed to private entities via public tenders for ordering sequence of fulfilment. 3. The monitoring of these events and performances should be part of Mayor’s duties as part of communities service. This is only my 2 cents of talk and talk only. You need to seek key influencers and formulate the SOPs to a proposal for a small scale trial. By what you are embarking, the system cannot support a mass rollout. It will only have limited results and shortfall for your intentions. It is unable to sustain the momentum.
bro, people know where the hawker are, but it take more than the eating time to travel down and buy. forums.hardwarezone.com.sg/threads/gvgt-our-dear-minister-lawrence-wong-keep-telling-us-to-stay-home-but.6533563
lol i dont use food delivery, and never will. Bought a bicycle to dabao food, which unfortunately became a blessing in disguise, as im cycling to dabao nowadays
there are tonnes of hipster cafes and Aussie-Japanese inspired element in our F&B scene. our hawkers need to be cherished and please keep on supporting them. go out. i always try to buy directly from the stalls if it's not too far. Plus, ordering thru delivery platform can be unpredictable, cocks up order and/or food went soggy, spills over.
Thanks for this touching video. Jalan Berseh houses my favourite yong tau foo stall here in Singapore, there are other stalls here that sell tasty food.I haven't been there for some time but will do so soon. Thank you to the wonderful hawkers of Singapore, let's support them!
@@SuccessforLifester Thanks, although I don't eat turtle soup or any organ soup hahaha. It's a pity that the excellent popiah stall (ground floor) run by an elderly couple has closed down, it was one of the best popiah stalls in Singapore.
@@cynkdf6241 I don't eat a lot of Liang Tu Foo. Probably because I tend to prefer more intense flavours. Used to eat Gao ji but it is now so expensive and yet not filling.
Young people of Singapore you have to organise to bring urgent help to the hawkers on tne streets. You can create groups and apps on the social media. The hawkers may be able to supply food packets directly to homes nearby if ordered online. Otherwise the street hawker, will vanish from the streets.
Food delivery is overpriced, I only use food delivery app for self-pickup with 20-30% off. But most of the time I would rather walk to the nearby coffeeshop to dabao, take it as a form of exercise.
True. Same in Indonesia. Most hawkers who sell cheap food, earn less than 30%, tight margin. So they can't afford to give 30% commission plus administration free to online platforms. Some sellers increase price to change cover the fees if they are selling online, then same also customers reluctant to buy. Cheaper to buy & order to the hawkers directly. I hope this pandemic will be over and overseas tourists can come again. We love your hawkers cuisine lah, will be back for sure if can enter Singapore again later.
True lah... Hawkers food at Angke market Jakarta was shocking, $5 5 years ago for CKT. Cheaper at Singapore food centre, still got $2.5- $3.5 charkwayteow, can find that at Fu Lu Shou food centre before pandemic. I like to go to Bedok, AMK, and other FC also.
Out of the 10 times i get my food, I only use the delivery apps once, just so I can support our hawkers. I encourage everyone to do the same, and it helps you to just go stretch your legs a bit.
Agree! Those online delivery apps charge 30% from the food stall and $5 from us consumers. When the food arrived, it is cold and spill! These online food deliveries are blood scukers.. Lets buy outside from our hawkers and support them.
correct. after several disappointing encounters from delivery, i always prefer to tapau directly. let me just go out myself, at least i get my food hot and have the right ingredients. can exercise also, rather than sitting at home all day.
the last part is true tho... currently studying overseas and the average price for hawker food you can find in sg is between $15-20.. havent eaten out for a long time cos every time i see the price i just cant help but think i cld buy at least 3-4 meals for one dish in sg... hope ppl in sg continue to support local hawkers so that they continue to be ard for years to come.. anyway maybe hawker centres can consider having one or two phone lines for all the stalls and then install a PA system or sth when orders come in and then each hawker centre or hawkers centres in the neighbourhood can employ their own delivery drivers etc to deliver the food.. basically a bit like the delivery system in korea.. just suggestions tho not sure it might work practically 😅😅 i just hope hawkers and local restaurants that are less savvy but have been ard for years continue to survive and not closed down cos of covid.. it wld be so sad to come back to sg and see some of the hawker places i used to go disappear 😔😔
handsome guy there.... yea i mix online order and self pickup and to offline stalls to dabao and eat home at least we need to go out to see something not just being caged at home i'm not staying at SG, so maybe different situation
Not just hawker dying out . I went to my local HDB run mall . A lot of shop is empty the whole day. No dinning crowd plus people tend to not go out . The human traffic is at all time low. These mum and pop shop probably could not survive the on slaughter of on line shopping platform.
It not easy as you think, sometime the seller also feel guilty to charge that much for the food they prepare. Its feel as a scam for seller just markup the price. Also using online platform to sell food is like selling in big hawker stall, where competition is alot and selling the same food. Im myself as a street vendor selling food also get order from online platform once every 3 days. If on a good day, maybe 3 - 4 order online.
@@sinxheart7494 Thanks for sharing insight! Spoke to a hawker at Berseh Food Centre as well and he too felt that if he were to go on delivery app and mark up the price by 30%, customers won't be too happy to pay say $6 for a $4 portion.
delivery app take 30-35%... food cost 30-40% meaning effectively your profit half PER DISH but your volume can increase. They have to pay the delivery riders ma...
Older generation I nothing to say, they ain't that tech savy. Younger people should follow the trend of they get eliminated soon. That's the reality of the world. Yes, food delivery platforms charge abt 30% of the cost, but we all know the shop owners get back the cost by increasing the prices on delivery platforms up to 40%, so they don't lose profit, rather its the consumers that pay more for the food to be delivered on top of the delivery fee
@@okayyyy335 if you are someone with free time on your hands, sure. But for people who are better off, what they are buying is essentially time. If you can put good use of the time saved, like earning more money and maybe spend time with family why not?
I think the issue is once u get the hawker to price hike by 30%, they may actually lose the customer because it's out of the perceived hawker food price range. When your fishballs noodles go from 3.50 to almost 5. And then there's delivery fee.
@@yinghaotan6044 Then it depends who you prioritise more: your own livelihoods or that of others. For me, I'm good prioritising others since I can live with less time saved. But maybe your priorities are different and that's fine too.
@@okayyyy335 I definitely still go down to my favourite few stalls to purchase my food. Even before this pandemic I only frequent those few cause I’m boring like that. It’s not about priorities. More of what I want to eat.
Online app should reduce the fee as they still earn; since there are constant in flow of cash for these online delivery, they really should reduce the fee...grab, foodpanda etc...
There is a wrong impression the food deliveryman. I have seen so many talks about how we should be grateful to these deliveryman. Actually the hawkers are the real people we should help and respect and be grateful. Some of them have been in this trade for their whole life, it’s difficult for them to change job also due to their age. They have to wake up early to prepare the ingredients and food. A lot of the deliveryman are young people who are flexible with other jobs and still have a lot more to offer in their working life. Please look at the whole picture, I have a feeling the behind the backstage some food delivery companies are staging this up to promote the use of food deliveries. I am not trying to discredit food deliveryman, it is a respectable job but not really to the extend we need to think about supporting them and giving them tips etc. Give your support to these hawkers instead.
Yes I don't know why must be grateful to food delivery. I didn't even use it. And they frequently gave bad impression like errant smoking, littering, illegal gathering and a menace on roads and foot paths.
instagram there's @wheretodapao! they already shoot up to 33k followers even collabs from big names.. they are another option to submit your favourite senior hawkers and their stalls to! :D
I refuse to let the likes of Grab earn my money. The way they 'partner' with delivery riders is very irresponsible. Demand will come and go. The worst thing is, they make the rewards so attractive, that talent is leaving the job market. The longer you do delivery for these platforms, the more reliant you are on this avenue of income, and the more irrelevant you become to the job market. For those of you who know what a 霸王车 is, these platforms are very much the same. They are pushing people out of business. First was taxis, then F&B, then groceries. I know it's a long shot, but if we come together and stop using these platforms, we can save a lot of businesses. We cannot let them take over all consumer business. If they succeed, goodbye to lunch under $10.
You cannot fight the force of digitalization. What we need to do is to help these hawkers adapt. We might be able to save them from covid 2021 but what about covid 2048? Covid 2067?
Don't know why everyone complaint about the 30%. U sell at ur store $5. Nobody ask u sell online on delivery platform $5. Mark up to make up the commission difference. Customer who want convenience will still pay. Walk in McDonald's and delivery McDonald's price is different. In fact many restaurant do this formula.
We r talking simple comfort food not McDonald’s/KFC or other established restaurants/outlets. Say Bukit Timah carrot cake - $3 a packet; with online order it is $4.20(40% surcharge as suggestions above). Would you pay and how sustainable is this MO?
We malays don't care. We always out there & bought from them & go fishing. Sometimes the unknown civilian come & stop us sitting there for no reason, & we fight back.
Is the new normal, medical bill more expensive... , Is sad to see hawker like that but this is the new norm adapt to change to survive. Hawker should get like take.app . That is a free app to online order and come down collect to skip the queue , queue even 1m have a chance to have virus
I don't drive so during lockdown i only can support those in my own estate. I didnt even travel to my nearby estate because i want to keep my outdoor as minimum. It's good to support these hwaker as often as we could but don't forget if government instruct us to avoid traveling and social activities we should also do our part for the whole society welfare. Hope we could dine out again after 13/6/21. Because i prefer to eat at far away locations versus take away from a far away location n travel home via mrt/bus.
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KF! Thanks for making this video! We need to support our hawkers.. yes! " STOP your online talk.. JUST GET OUT THERE AND DAPAO "
piggypuggy, i see you here. ahaha. your hawker videos are amazing. my constant makan companion while eating at home.
I love this when he said,
"It's just that they're not Instagram-friendly, but they're Instagram-tasty"
This is so true, people will choose the look, watching your those influencers said this food is good, but actually not or just so-so. People will choose a place that is we called aesthetic not even care about the taste. Just because we want to go into the hype.
AGREE COMPLETELY! In the future, hawker food might not even be this affordable anymore due to inflation. Treasure what we currently have and show them our support! 💪🏻💪🏻💪🏻
I also have thought of this for a long time..ever since the lockdown started.. how these uncle and aunty gonna survive because I didn't found them on the delivery food apps.. it's sad to watch this actually.. on how the other hawkers that has closed down their business.. how are they now? I hope that all of us will go through this "time" safely..
Bravo Seetoh & oGS. I've always admire Seetoh's passion to speak out for the undermined social media unsavvy hawkers. Small businesses who GENUINELY deliver (relative) quality products and/or spirit. No fluff. I always respect entrepreneurial spirit but opportunistic sharks is a different story.
I live near Jalan Bersah and I have stopped using Grab. Now walking to the foodcourt and take away from these hawkers there. Hope the lockdown will end soon
Nice! ;)
Great. 👍 I use Grab for sending stuffs or transport only. If buy food, I call hawkers and pick up by myself. Even brought my own tiffin for hot food, reducing plastic waste. 😂
Thank you sir.
KF, thanks for providing a voice for our hawkers.
I am Indonesian, i used to visit Singapore regularly before covid.
I always like the food in hawker centre.
Hawker centres are integral part of Singaporean's life.
I hope this covid pandemic can pass quickly and I wish those food sellers can endure this pandemic
I love what Seethoh is doing, bringing awareness to hawkers who are sufferimg.
This is the same red haired uncle in CNA video about Diana Ser and tray returns. Uncle was very angry but was appeased after Diana pampered his chest.
Thank you Mr KF Seetoh for this real and eye-opening video. Hawker culture is in our blood and we really should be getting out there to support them.
Your quote really stood out to me "There's no such thing as lousy compassion if it was sincere from the get go". It might not be much, but me and my friends are working on a web app, projecthawker.com and we aim to get all these unseen hawkers listed at a single place so people can easily find them. We are not making any money, just out to really help our hawkers out. Of course, we dabao from them as much as possible too :)
To anyone reading, please consider checking Project Hawker out and recommending your favourite hawker stalls, so they can be found and heard. 🙏
That’s awesome! Good luck to everybody in 🇸🇬 from Canada 🇨🇦 hope you get through this
Good. Let share some ideas
1. Hawker centres are managed by TCs. Therefore they should be part of the enrolment of hawkers into this effort. There is an element of gov as “caring” and also legitimacy
2. There need a civic institute to standardised a format platform for online ordering. This platform would then need to be farmed to private entities via public tenders for ordering sequence of fulfilment.
3. The monitoring of these events and performances should be part of Mayor’s duties as part of communities service.
This is only my 2 cents of talk and talk only.
You need to seek key influencers and formulate the SOPs to a proposal for a small scale trial.
By what you are embarking, the system cannot support a mass rollout. It will only have limited results and shortfall for your intentions. It is unable to sustain the momentum.
bro, people know where the hawker are, but it take more than the eating time to travel down and buy.
forums.hardwarezone.com.sg/threads/gvgt-our-dear-minister-lawrence-wong-keep-telling-us-to-stay-home-but.6533563
Its a time when people support each other unconditionally
Thanks to you bro to speak out for them. Those platforms are taking advantage of them during bad times....
Poor robbing the poor....Delivery Rider earn little...hawker earn even less...GRAB is a 50 Billion IPO...where is the heart?
It is called Capitalism. The bourgeoisie vs proletariat.
Thank you for helping them, Mr Seetoh
SUPPORT and dabao all hawker stalls in Singapore!!! Much love from Cebu, Philippines.
lol i dont use food delivery, and never will. Bought a bicycle to dabao food, which unfortunately became a blessing in disguise, as im cycling to dabao nowadays
can exercise also lah. good.
there are tonnes of hipster cafes and Aussie-Japanese inspired element in our F&B scene. our hawkers need to be cherished and please keep on supporting them. go out. i always try to buy directly from the stalls if it's not too far. Plus, ordering thru delivery platform can be unpredictable, cocks up order and/or food went soggy, spills over.
Great video! Thanks for helping to spread awareness about these hawkers!
Thanks for this touching video. Jalan Berseh houses my favourite yong tau foo stall here in Singapore, there are other stalls here that sell tasty food.I haven't been there for some time but will do so soon. Thank you to the wonderful hawkers of Singapore, let's support them!
Is it the place that got two stalls stalls selling turtle soup ?
@@SuccessforLifester Yes - the food centre is opposite Jalan Besar MRT.
@@cynkdf6241 The pig organ soup opposite that area is also good. Zheng Zheng Wen ji
@@SuccessforLifester Thanks, although I don't eat turtle soup or any organ soup hahaha. It's a pity that the excellent popiah stall (ground floor) run by an elderly couple has closed down, it was one of the best popiah stalls in Singapore.
@@cynkdf6241 I don't eat a lot of Liang Tu Foo. Probably because I tend to prefer more intense flavours. Used to eat Gao ji but it is now so expensive and yet not filling.
Let’s share this on our social platforms to show support!
Thanks for sharing! :)
30%! That's a robbery.
Young people of Singapore you have to organise to bring urgent help to the hawkers on tne streets. You can create groups and apps on the social media. The hawkers may be able to supply food packets directly to homes nearby if ordered online. Otherwise the street hawker, will vanish from the streets.
Go support the hard working hawkers, Singaporeans!!!!
Thank you seetoh. Please Go out and support. This is the lifeblood of Singapore. Hawker culture is what makes Singapore, Singapore.
Every hawker center set up a whatsapp group, hire own riders and share the cost equally across every stall. Should work.
At least this is useful comment. Still lack of exposure is what kill traditional bus
Food delivery is overpriced, I only use food delivery app for self-pickup with 20-30% off. But most of the time I would rather walk to the nearby coffeeshop to dabao, take it as a form of exercise.
True. Same in Indonesia. Most hawkers who sell cheap food, earn less than 30%, tight margin. So they can't afford to give 30% commission plus administration free to online platforms.
Some sellers increase price to change cover the fees if they are selling online, then same also customers reluctant to buy. Cheaper to buy & order to the hawkers directly.
I hope this pandemic will be over and overseas tourists can come again. We love your hawkers cuisine lah, will be back for sure if can enter Singapore again later.
Well said and bravo seetoh for supporting people in need!!
Its crazy, food in jakarta almost have the same price like in singapore.singapore food price is way too cheap
True lah... Hawkers food at Angke market Jakarta was shocking, $5 5 years ago for CKT. Cheaper at Singapore food centre, still got $2.5- $3.5 charkwayteow, can find that at Fu Lu Shou food centre before pandemic. I like to go to Bedok, AMK, and other FC also.
I would dabao to Canada if I could. Best of luck and support to hawkers everywhere 🙏
Isn't this the hawker who scolded Diana Ser for her tray return experiment in CNA insider
Out of the 10 times i get my food, I only use the delivery apps once, just so I can support our hawkers. I encourage everyone to do the same, and it helps you to just go stretch your legs a bit.
Thanks for this reminder
Very informative and good advice..thank you
Agree! Those online delivery apps charge 30% from the food stall and $5 from us consumers.
When the food arrived, it is cold and spill! These online food deliveries are blood scukers..
Lets buy outside from our hawkers and support them.
correct. after several disappointing encounters from delivery, i always prefer to tapau directly. let me just go out myself, at least i get my food hot and have the right ingredients. can exercise also, rather than sitting at home all day.
KF is the hero Hawkers both deserve and need :)
the last part is true tho... currently studying overseas and the average price for hawker food you can find in sg is between $15-20.. havent eaten out for a long time cos every time i see the price i just cant help but think i cld buy at least 3-4 meals for one dish in sg... hope ppl in sg continue to support local hawkers so that they continue to be ard for years to come..
anyway maybe hawker centres can consider having one or two phone lines for all the stalls and then install a PA system or sth when orders come in and then each hawker centre or hawkers centres in the neighbourhood can employ their own delivery drivers etc to deliver the food.. basically a bit like the delivery system in korea.. just suggestions tho not sure it might work practically 😅😅
i just hope hawkers and local restaurants that are less savvy but have been ard for years continue to survive and not closed down cos of covid.. it wld be so sad to come back to sg and see some of the hawker places i used to go disappear 😔😔
Recognised (thumbnail) red-haired uncle from CNA hawker tray experiment
true ah. i thought who is he going to scold this time? ahahah.
OMG! I had no idea the food app takes over 30% that quite high. I will go out to order more instead of ordering in ☹
handsome guy there....
yea i mix online order and self pickup and to offline stalls to dabao and eat home
at least we need to go out to see something not just being caged at home
i'm not staying at SG, so maybe different situation
Everyone will truly miss them if they do not support them now ,please.
Suddenly got craving for Jalan Berseh chinese nasi lemak
i never order food delivery but most lik me dun travel far out to dabao too...support ur nearby hawker is the best we can do
Good. Already work from home so just go down to your nearest hawker and support.
Not just hawker dying out . I went to my local HDB run mall . A lot of shop is empty the whole day. No dinning crowd plus people tend to not go out . The human traffic is at all time low. These mum and pop shop probably could not survive the on slaughter of on line shopping platform.
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Thank you for sharing.
I love Berseh food centre!
Hawker food is such a heritage, affordable and extremely delicious. Bar none.
He got a valid point
Great video.
Heart breaking.. but its the reality..
You are right just go to Ta Pau go home eat for our favorite food
Thank you for the reminder. I hope we won’t know the true value of these hawkers only when they disappear..
If you have one time food on your plate you are the luckiest person at this moment.
I miss Singapore food. My daughter and I would get two good meals for less than half the price of one good meal in Australia.
Never hurts to tip. 50 cents or even a dollar would go a long way!
Grab is the vampire. I rather let the coffeeshop/hawker stall earn by calling them if they have their own delivery or just go down myself to dabao.
So the rides are all little vampire. Good description.
Seetoh, aside from your atrocious Mandarin, I commend you for your kind heart
1:57 for online order, you can increase the price 30%. easy.
It not easy as you think, sometime the seller also feel guilty to charge that much for the food they prepare. Its feel as a scam for seller just markup the price. Also using online platform to sell food is like selling in big hawker stall, where competition is alot and selling the same food. Im myself as a street vendor selling food also get order from online platform once every 3 days. If on a good day, maybe 3 - 4 order online.
@@sinxheart7494 Thanks for sharing insight! Spoke to a hawker at Berseh Food Centre as well and he too felt that if he were to go on delivery app and mark up the price by 30%, customers won't be too happy to pay say $6 for a $4 portion.
delivery app take 30-35%... food cost 30-40% meaning effectively your profit half PER DISH but your volume can increase. They have to pay the delivery riders ma...
How can I help them from another country? I would love to travel there some day and support them then and now
Please support our hawkers in Singapore
Hawker at Kampung Admiralty always crowded
Govt shd provide the public online apps for food operators
Hawker food are so much better :)
Speaking of Jalan Berseh, anyone knows what happened to the turtle soup stall at the 2nd floor corner near the stairs? Disappeared a few years ago.
Retired already
Older generation I nothing to say, they ain't that tech savy.
Younger people should follow the trend of they get eliminated soon. That's the reality of the world.
Yes, food delivery platforms charge abt 30% of the cost, but we all know the shop owners get back the cost by increasing the prices on delivery platforms up to 40%, so they don't lose profit, rather its the consumers that pay more for the food to be delivered on top of the delivery fee
Agreed. Hence, I try not to go on Grabfood now knowing the prices are marked up.
@@okayyyy335 if you are someone with free time on your hands, sure. But for people who are better off, what they are buying is essentially time. If you can put good use of the time saved, like earning more money and maybe spend time with family why not?
I think the issue is once u get the hawker to price hike by 30%, they may actually lose the customer because it's out of the perceived hawker food price range. When your fishballs noodles go from 3.50 to almost 5. And then there's delivery fee.
@@yinghaotan6044 Then it depends who you prioritise more: your own livelihoods or that of others. For me, I'm good prioritising others since I can live with less time saved. But maybe your priorities are different and that's fine too.
@@okayyyy335 I definitely still go down to my favourite few stalls to purchase my food. Even before this pandemic I only frequent those few cause I’m boring like that. It’s not about priorities. More of what I want to eat.
Online app should reduce the fee as they still earn; since there are constant in flow of cash for these online delivery, they really should reduce the fee...grab, foodpanda etc...
Sadly, the commissions will only increase as there are more orders coming in... best is still to takeaway urself and maybe leave a tip
Stop making the rich become richer,everyone shd do their part in supporting all these local hawker stalls.
There is a wrong impression the food deliveryman. I have seen so many talks about how we should be grateful to these deliveryman. Actually the hawkers are the real people we should help and respect and be grateful. Some of them have been in this trade for their whole life, it’s difficult for them to change job also due to their age. They have to wake up early to prepare the ingredients and food. A lot of the deliveryman are young people who are flexible with other jobs and still have a lot more to offer in their working life. Please look at the whole picture, I have a feeling the behind the backstage some food delivery companies are staging this up to promote the use of food deliveries. I am not trying to discredit food deliveryman, it is a respectable job but not really to the extend we need to think about supporting them and giving them tips etc. Give your support to these hawkers instead.
Yes I don't know why must be grateful to food delivery. I didn't even use it. And they frequently gave bad impression like errant smoking, littering, illegal gathering and a menace on roads and foot paths.
instagram there's @wheretodapao! they already shoot up to 33k followers even collabs from big names.. they are another option to submit your favourite senior hawkers and their stalls to! :D
humanity matters (:
For me I will dabao all the way. Don’t use grab or whatever delivery app at all.
They still open to. Operate others can't do it
What kind of food are this Grandpa stall selling? Can anyone tell
Western food! Their chicken in the basket is really good!
Vote wisely with one's wallets as the saying goes. ..
30% ! That's price gouging
I usually go out to buy food. I don't use online apps. Too expensive.
I refuse to let the likes of Grab earn my money. The way they 'partner' with delivery riders is very irresponsible. Demand will come and go. The worst thing is, they make the rewards so attractive, that talent is leaving the job market. The longer you do delivery for these platforms, the more reliant you are on this avenue of income, and the more irrelevant you become to the job market.
For those of you who know what a 霸王车 is, these platforms are very much the same. They are pushing people out of business. First was taxis, then F&B, then groceries.
I know it's a long shot, but if we come together and stop using these platforms, we can save a lot of businesses. We cannot let them take over all consumer business. If they succeed, goodbye to lunch under $10.
Maybe these delivery drivers or riders should tie up directly with the hawkers instead and patrons call direct to these hawkers? Win win situation?
Who’s tha Chinese lady hawker . Let me know I’ll visit her and support her hawker
She’s the owner of Tree Coconut Nasi Lemak! You can find her stall at the basement of Berseh Food Centre!
These online deliveries are suckers, same in indonesia. They are not helping the small businesses at all.
You cannot fight the force of digitalization. What we need to do is to help these hawkers adapt. We might be able to save them from covid 2021 but what about covid 2048? Covid 2067?
I remember seetoh wanted us to eat more KFC.
Sir , we are cannot said more that Singapore or Singaporeans as possible to prevent spreading COVID19 crisis..
Don't know why everyone complaint about the 30%. U sell at ur store $5. Nobody ask u sell online on delivery platform $5. Mark up to make up the commission difference. Customer who want convenience will still pay. Walk in McDonald's and delivery McDonald's price is different. In fact many restaurant do this formula.
We r talking simple comfort food not McDonald’s/KFC or other established restaurants/outlets. Say Bukit Timah carrot cake - $3 a packet; with online order it is $4.20(40% surcharge as suggestions above). Would you pay and how sustainable is this MO?
We malays don't care. We always out there & bought from them & go fishing. Sometimes the unknown civilian come & stop us sitting there for no reason, & we fight back.
Tell Ahdon78 that I said hey
Is the new normal, medical bill more expensive... , Is sad to see hawker like that but this is the new norm adapt to change to survive. Hawker should get like take.app . That is a free app to online order and come down collect to skip the queue , queue even 1m have a chance to have virus
I don't drive so during lockdown i only can support those in my own estate. I didnt even travel to my nearby estate because i want to keep my outdoor as minimum.
It's good to support these hwaker as often as we could but don't forget if government instruct us to avoid traveling and social activities we should also do our part for the whole society welfare.
Hope we could dine out again after 13/6/21. Because i prefer to eat at far away locations versus take away from a far away location n travel home via mrt/bus.
Too many hawker center...food court enterprise...coffee shop chain.. what to do? This is Big Eat Small world. Welcome.
My business loosing money till today Since last year!
guys pls dont just watch the channel and do nothing but pls support our local hawkers...
Our food is really damn cheap compare to develop countries. When these uncle and aunties retires, hopefully new owners doesnt increase price
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Stop your online talk. Just get out there and buy from them. We have to make sure they survive.
Yes sme of them are ARROGANT SMEMORE CAN SAY ," SIAM !!!!SIAM " NOW LET THEM SAY SIAM UH !!!TOO CROWDED SIAM!!! NO CROWD ??? MEOW
Live in all online platform, killed by all the platform..