Compared to home-cooked anyway. We just paid $75 for chips, half a dozen nuggets, a few shitty frozen pieces of flathead, a couple of snags, a bit of salad, and not a whole lot else. Even if you take into account the 1 for 1 ratio for overseas spending - that is, $1 Aussie is equivalent to 1 whatever in the local currency (which I think is generally a fair ratio, unless it needs to be x1000 like in Indonesia). If you did that, you would have RM75 to spend, say RM70 if you took off delivery. For that, you could feed our family of five with a bloody banquet of takeaway food. OMG, imagine - 2 x 7.50 pork noodle, 1 x 6 Hokkien mee, 2 x 10 chee cheong fun (with the lot!), 4 x 5 roti telur, plus drinks and say curry puffs. Now you tell me that isn't 1,000x better than what we got tonight.
But hey, it's ok. We kind of half-expected this. We did it to support local business during this tough time. Normally we only go for Dominos or Maccas, both of which we enjoy their unique flavours, even if they are quite junky a lot of the time. So all good.
Tomorrow I am cooking home-made siu yuk, or Chinese roast pork. It won't be a patch on what you buy at the breakfast hawker stalls for next to nothing, but oh boy, it will be so awesome compared to almost anything else you can get here. I apologise if this causes offense to anyone. I don't mean to, it's just that I have spent a lot of time in Asia, and street food / takeaway is almost a religion to me, so I have to rant.
Tomorrow I am cooking home-made siu yuk, or Chinese roast pork. It won't be a patch on what you buy at the breakfast hawker stalls for next to nothing, but oh boy, it will be so awesome compared to almost anything else you can get here. I apologise if this causes offense to anyone. I don't mean to, it's just that I have spent a lot of time in Asia, and street food / takeaway is almost a religion to me, so I have to rant.
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