Since last Tuesday, the Chinese community across Malaysian celebrated the Nine Emperor Gods Festival, which will come to an end on Wednesday (Oct 29).
Throughout the nine-day festival, stalls are set up to provide worshippers vegetarian food, whereby only meat-free meals are available as part of celebrations.
Charged RM12 for bihun with potatoes, mock meat
A netizen recently took to social media to express his shock over a meal he had bought from a vegetarian stall in Ampang during the festival.
In a photo shared on Xiaohongshu, it featured a box of plain bihun which came with several pieces of potatoes and slices of mock meat that were so tiny that you couldn’t find it even if you squinted.
The netizen added that according to the stall owner, the bihun cost RM8, while the potatoes and mock meat cost RM4, leaving him to wonder whether vegetarian food in KL were truly this expensive.
‘Not just you, bro’
In the comment section, it seemed that the OP wasn’t the only “victim” when it came to expensive vegetarian meals as netizens revealed with photos of their own.
One showed a plate of noodles with potatoes, vegetarian sausages and meat that cost a whopping RM19, while another showed a plate of bihun with fried bean curd and mock meat that was sold for RM16.
Others didn’t seem too surprised by the prices, with one saying that there was a common saying which said vendors can rest for the entire year after working for just nine days during the Nine Emperor Gods Festival in Ampang.
Another urged the OP to file a report with the Ministry of Domestic Trade and Consumer Affairs (KPDNHEP) over his meal’s exorbitant price.
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