@straitstimes: As more foreign brands set up shop in our malls and heartland neighbourhoods, is Singapore at risk of losing its local flavour? 🔎🇸🇬 #local #food #heritage #supportlocal #culture

josephwong4367 :

the dumplings nice meh? the skin so thick i feel our sgp wanton mee style dumplings nicer

Y :

our minister say rent is not an issue

thingshappened┆creative :

such a well done video . watch till the end

bbevz :

When Soup Restaurant lost their unit in Sengkang to Xiangxiang due to rental… a neighbourhood institution for 25 years gone…

heyhellojello :

even my bar chor mee and chicken rice is lesser nowadays. every area is competing with big chains. no more character… and veteran old school stores are disappearing.

Evie :

My students are telling me that Clementi Mall is getting boring. Funny thing is-I have no idea what to reply since I’ve not visited the mall for a long while. There’s nothing much for me to patron there. It’s typically the same array of shops across malls in Singapore.

hellokiddy :

better than mcdonalds Starbucks kfc

CW :

The moral of the story is to show more support for local concept businesses. No matter u are a consumer, landlord etc. Then the free market can speak for itself. It’s not that deep.

Look behind you :

Peak journalism

Salted.cameral :

change is painful, but the free market is always the best distributor and allocator of resources, price, supply and demand. there will come a point it swings back, and the market demands will dictate again what we want, and the supply will respond to cater to it. example, do you realise how difficult it is to get satay now? there's only 2 stalls in clementi hawker center that sells satay now.

Kanchana :

we need a platform just for heritage Singaporean business, so that we Singaporeans are aware of their existence and able to support them

Tom Macguffin :

people love frozen bland pork wantons 🥺 our local wantons with fresh pork, chestnut, black fungus and solefish are far superior

sgmeowmama :

I am happy finally this is put up as article and getting attention 🥰

DAILY DIECAST :

Really good journalism

zoonotsological :

Loving this kind of journalism

culturebinge Rewind :

Support locals . That’s is what we as consumers can help.

nas roslan :

My friend who is a 3rd generation owner of a fragrance shop in Haji Lane just had to close down her shop due to the ridiculously high rental price increase and lack of support from the government. She's forced to move elsewhere despite being a heritage shop. I hope the frame shop doesn't face the same fate.

zeerah.b 🍉 :

Now this is journalism ❤️

SL :

Should there be cap in rental then? Rental based on floor area and cap it so landlords cannot keep increasing to no end.

no u :

vote wisely

Goornot :

I need to have a sense of belonging ❤️

Ghost in the Machine :

“Let market forces decide”

olive🫒 :

maggieemee :

take a look at our university canteens as well, especially the newly revamped South Spine canteen at NTU

😁😁 :

Back in the 80s, 90s, the government control the rent for coffee shops and hawker centres. Many entrepreneurs make it a big issue that government is depriving private businesses of this pie. The government started to open up this to private businesses and the bidding price went crazy. Rental starts to go up and food price increases follow. Now people are clamouring for the government to be involved again.