5 Reasons Why Eating at Food Courts in Singapore Makes You Broke

Not content with just hawking pork floss buns and peanut butter thick toasts, the BreadTalk empire is now going to acquire Food Junction, a relatively small-time food court operator.

Never mind that to get to the food court on L4, you have to pass through a whole string of cheap eateries in B1. No food court would willingly display a consolidated price list of all its stalls’ offerings, so you are forced to shortlist the stalls under consideration and physically walk there. First, you’ll find that some of the stalls try to make their offerings sound more fanciful than their hawker centre counterparts. For example, the noodle stall calls their dishes “handmade noodles” instead of “ban mian”, which is basically the same thing.

If you’re easily stressed out by other people’s demands, you may end up ordering the wrong item in a hurry. Just look at this ridiculous menu — I’m pretty sure that more than 1 panicked customer has accidentally ordered the “special set meal promotion”. The drinks stalls at these food courts usually sell sugary nonsense like lychee juice, ice lemon tea, water chestnut and ice Milo, and these cost at least $2.50 a cup, typically. You can also opt for a “healthy” juice but that’s even more expensive, close to $4 a cup on average.No wonder some food courts hire aunties and uncles to walk around pushing their drinks on customers. Must be lucrative…

In contrast, there are fewer opportunities for impulse lunch break shopping at the hawker centre. At most you buy cable ties from the neighbourhood hardware shop or biscuits from the market lor.My guess is that many Singaporeans still believe food courts are the cheapest food option in shopping malls, which was probably true at some point, like maybe back in the 90’s.

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