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 ......