In 2015, when GST starts its implementation, I posted about the food price hike in Kuching.
Recently, I noticed two of my favourite buns (also know as pao locally) stalls also increase their price.
The first one is my favourite steamed white bun stall, in which last year I paid RM1.70 for my favourite meat bun. A few months later, the price increased to RM2.00, then recently it is RM2.40 for a meat bun.
That is an increment of 41%!
The second one is my favourite baked meat bun, which was RM1.80 per piece. Then, the price increased to RM2.00, followed by RM2.20 and now is RM2.30 per piece. Which give an increment of 28%.
For the baked meat bun, the owner had earlier shared with me she is having a hard time due to a price hike in all her ingredients such as cooking oil, butter and meat filling. She has no choice but to gradually increase her price to maintain the operation.
One good point is that her baked meat bun still has the same quality and size. Because I noticed there are other stalls which increase the price and reduce the size of their buns.
Overall, it is quite scary because within 1 year, the food price hike by 41%. And I am wondering what will happen if the cost of raw ingredients keeps increasing like now.
Foresee that the food price hike in Kuching will be an up-trending situation. How about you? Do you feel the pinch of food price hikes in your area?
