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Wan Tan Mee

Posted in Ask Yowchuan, Daily Observations, Effective and Efficient, Malaysia Personal Finance, Malaysia Risk Management & Insurance |
A bowl of wan tan mee, with soup and chopped green chilies.

A bowl of wan tan mee, with soup and chopped green chilies.

Average price for a wan tan mee is now RM3.80.

2 years back, a friend who started out her wan tan mee stall together with her husband started selling their hand-made noodles at RM2.70.

Almost 40% increment, in 2 years.

Back in 1993, the stalls alongside Lian Seng Garden’s main road, Ah Sau (???) is only selling it for RM1, with almost the same ingredients.

Almost 380% increment in 15 years, about 25% increment every year.

Government continues to tell her people inflation is at 8.5%.





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  • http://www.richsnail.com/blog/ Jacques

    To put your calculation in perspective
    With an annualised inflation of 8.5% over the past 15 years, your RM1 Wan Tan Mee would now cost RM3.13
    Unfortunately, the power of compounding also work for inflation…

    I agree with you that inflation in Malaysia is badly calculated. And it most certainly is a two figure one. But calculating inflation is a very hard and imperfect process. For a higher priced bowl of Wan Tan Mee, we enjoy much cheaper laptops, internet, calling rates etc.

    The problem here is that BNM is not free enough. Too much political interference.

  • http://mtsen.com mtsen.com

    although I agree with you … err …. but wan ton mee is not halal woh …. so not part of the infation index .. kee kee kee ….

    Jac, r u sure laptops, internet and calling rates are cheaper than china, australia and hong kong ? :p

  • http://www.richsnail.com/blog/ Jacques

    I don't know whether laptops, internet and calling rates are cheaper in Malaysian than in China or Hk. What I'm sure of is that they are much cheaper than 10 years ago ;-)

  • http://www.bold-talk.blogspot.com eugene

    Came across one kopitiam in Penang, one Ise Kosong selling at 70 cents, this is no inflation , but explosion….

  • http://www.meshio.com yowchuan

    Eugene bro, that's an insane price tag… I wonder if you can actually make a police report, classify it under robbery!

  • http://lifeisoutoftrack.blogspot.com outoftrack

    IDD calls in HK are MUCH cheaper now than 10yrs ago thats for sure! With many competitors coming in and all. It was HK$2 to call to Msia but now i can get easily Hk$.2 or lower periodically.

    Good to read this wan-ton-mee-MY-index. Im still catching up with my Big Mac Index to try to follow the world trend :))

  • http://www.ezinsurancequotes.com/term-life-insurance/term-life-quote/affordable-term-quote.html termllife

    Wan tan mee one of my favorites, thanks for posting.