i do not know whether other consumers have had our experience when eating out during the current holiday season but this is our experience today.
while in-between the traditional visitation to our relatives' homes, we stopped by to have our lunch at the neighbourhood coffee shop.
perhaps or perhaps not surprisingly, we had to pay a 'surcharge' levied on our drinks and fish ball noodles (not many stalls were opened for business).
what was the surchage?
for our drinks:
a. kopi-o kosong for myself: $1.00 with a surchage of $0.30
b. kopi-o for my wife: $1.10 with a similar surchage of $0.30
c. coke for our son: $1.60 with a surchage of $0.30
so, on a 'normal' day, we would have paid just $2.70 but because it was during the lunar new year holidays, we coughed out $3.70.
for our 3 bowls ......