Healthier hawker fare at no extra cost
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Apr 3, 2011 - Sunday Times
Wholegrain noodles, brown rice among options at all hawker centres in three years
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Cos the portion is smaller.
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taste will kill the hawkers.
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Those who wanted healthier choices usually dont bother about the taste.
If you bothered about the taste, you would want things oily and sweet. -
eat at home campaign coming
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i stop at thunder tea rice
aint going into wholegrain noodles
yucks
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charcoal noodles nice
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local fare taste would be gone..
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no more hawker food but health food.
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there goes our local food culture...
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bye bye good food.
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Originally posted by Junyang700:
Cos the portion is smaller.
You are 100% rght.Serving will be small, instead of eg) 4 fish ball, now only 2 fish ball.Instead of 2 scoop of vege, now only 1 scoop.
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say only lah.
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say only lah.
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Time will tell, but they will fail, they will break their promise one day.
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This is so going to kill our hawker fare (it's already dying a slow death)
I mean the standard of our hawker fare is already dropping like crazy due to "healtier options" eg. substituting lard with palm oil.
Seriously if you want to go healthy, don't go for char kwey teow. The problem is people do not know how to moderate themselves
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The whole point of hawker food is to be fast and healthy. Please someone tell me brown chicken rice is fantastic.
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Everything increases when you go to the wet market cum hawker stalls. Some stall charge extra 20cents while other charge extra 50 cents. You want to get $2.50 per bowl of noodles, it gonna extinct very soon.
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Originally posted by Clivebenss:
Apr 3, 2011 - Sunday Times
Wholegrain noodles, brown rice among options at all hawker centres in three years
By Poon Chian HuiIN THREE years' time, you will be able to choose healthier versions of local dishes like char kway teow made with wholegrain noodles at all hawker centres in Singapore - and at no extra cost.The Health Promotion Board (HPB) unveiled these plans yesterday at the launch of its new Healthier Hawker Programme, which aims to stem the rising obesity rates here. The latest National Health Survey last year showed that one in 10 Singaporeans is obese.
Explaining the move, HPB chief executive Ang Hak Seng said more Singaporeans are eating out, with seven in 10 consuming more than the daily recommended calorie intake. Of these, about 15 per cent eat at least twice the recommended daily amount, he added.
An average adult should consume about 2,000 calories a day. The number of people who eat at hawker centres, food courts and coffee shops at least four times a week has also risen from 49 per cent in 2004 to 60 per cent last year, preliminary results from the HPB's new National Nutrition Survey showed.
'We tell people to eat healthier food. But if they go to the hawker centre, there's no healthy food. That's the issue,' said Mr Ang at Yuhua Hawker Centre, which became the first in Singapore to offer healthier choices.
Nearly all of the 53 stalls there now provide options like brown rice and wholegrain noodles besides regular white rice and noodles. The dishes are cooked using a mix of palm and soya bean oil that contains 25 per cent less saturated fat than pure palm oil, which is commonly used by hawkers.
3 YRS LATEER , than come n say.
under tis pap govtment, everyting go up, lesser job 4 sinkapolian, lesser pay......dont knw cant survive another 3 yrs anok.
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less ingredients of cuz healthier lar.
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I think e better compromise is more greens if ppl wants it.
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More green, take organic food is more exp than nornal food.
My family will not be able to afford organic food.
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Healthy dun mean tasty... D:
Might as well make sweet deserts with brown sugar... brrrr
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Yehhhh!! Laksa with no fat and oil finally.
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yucks!