Affordable Eating-Out Increases A Country's Productivity
Lunch: Yam Rice Lunch: Pig's Stomach with White Peppercorn Soup Lunch: Fried Fish and some kind of Squash or Gourd Dinner: Malay curried mutton, fried, egg, fish, vegetables with rice and Chili Would you believe that I have not cooked a meal at home in three years, ever since I came back from the United States? Though this sounds strange to Westerners and Americans, it is not uncommon to find working people in Hong Kong and Singapore who eat out for every meal-breakfast, lunch and dinner. One of the reasons is that people here and even more so in Hong Kong work long hours, and there is no time to cook. But the main reason is that eating out in Singapore and Hong Kong is relatively inexpensive. Inexpensive not only in the amount of dollars a meal costs, but inexpensive also in the sense of comparing the $ x time that need to be sacrificed if you need to cook at home. Time, that for some, could be spent earning more money or doing more business. If you don't count tasteless qu...
