Expensive Fruit
lim peh ka li kong
One Sunday morning, me and my cha-bo-lang fetched 3 of our uncles and aunty for tim-sum.
Lim peh always like to have conversation with the elderly cos it is through conversation with them that I can learn a thing or two as they are much more knowledgeable than I.
After eating some tim-sum, all 5 of us went to a nearby Japanese Supermarket to just walk walk see see look look.
While talking and walking aimlessly, especially for me cos I had nothing to buy in mind, lim peh suddenly saw a honeydew melon.
My specs almost dropped and my eyes almost pop-out.
Why? Look at the price yourself.
S$99.00! So what if it was airflown? Lim peh will never buy such expensive honeydew melon, eat gold meh?
Guess only the RICH will pay such high price for a honeydew melon.
lim peh kong wan liao
One Sunday morning, me and my cha-bo-lang fetched 3 of our uncles and aunty for tim-sum.
Lim peh always like to have conversation with the elderly cos it is through conversation with them that I can learn a thing or two as they are much more knowledgeable than I.
After eating some tim-sum, all 5 of us went to a nearby Japanese Supermarket to just walk walk see see look look.
While talking and walking aimlessly, especially for me cos I had nothing to buy in mind, lim peh suddenly saw a honeydew melon.
My specs almost dropped and my eyes almost pop-out.
Why? Look at the price yourself.
S$99.00! So what if it was airflown? Lim peh will never buy such expensive honeydew melon, eat gold meh?
Guess only the RICH will pay such high price for a honeydew melon.
lim peh kong wan liao
27 Comments:
At Tuesday, December 04, 2007 1:25:00 PM , Anonymous said...
It is indeed very expensive!
I used to buy a cup of watermelon juice that cost me S$7.90!!! which I think not reasonable, can not "tahan" also.
At Tuesday, December 04, 2007 2:12:00 PM , 新怡 said...
really expensive a little bit hor...
lucky I didn't eat honeydew melon, in fact I don't like the taste...
At Tuesday, December 04, 2007 3:49:00 PM , Old Beng said...
Don Lim
Hmmm, maybe the watermelon juice also air-flown?
新怡
I have a friend who doesn't eat papaya and you don't eat honeydew melon so if you have honeydew melon, you can pass to me, ya, me greedy mouth :)
At Tuesday, December 04, 2007 3:52:00 PM , Anonymous said...
哈哈
一定有人会买他才会卖
At Tuesday, December 04, 2007 4:56:00 PM , 新怡 said...
sure...
if ur friend hv papaya, then can pass to me... i love papaya
At Tuesday, December 04, 2007 9:13:00 PM , manic depressive said...
lots of rich people in sg lah, $99 must be peanuts to them...
At Tuesday, December 04, 2007 9:42:00 PM , imnothere said...
they are paying to show other people how rich they are.
or maybe after eating shizuka Melon they can speak Japanese? ;-)
At Tuesday, December 04, 2007 9:56:00 PM , 潇洒走一回(少俊) said...
Isetan in orchard is it? I like to "window shopping" there.. haha.. those fruits are made of gold~
At Tuesday, December 04, 2007 10:07:00 PM , Anonymous said...
these musk melon are grown organically in well-controlled greenhouse. i happen to sample some at hokkaido, in terms of sweetness & aroma - no horse run *2 thumbs up* still, it's too steep a price to pay for me.
you should go jalan jalan around the world more often lah
At Tuesday, December 04, 2007 11:01:00 PM , Old Beng said...
大头
你说得对极了,一个愿打一个愿捱。
新怡
Eh... you forgot I love both papaya and honeydew melon so hum-pa-lang also I eat, he he he.
MD
Ya lor but I definitely 吃不起。
At Tuesday, December 04, 2007 11:06:00 PM , Old Beng said...
Imnothere
Ha ha ha, if after eating can speak Japanese, then lim peh will also buy.
少俊
No la, not Orchard la though I always have my lunch around there, eh... wanna buy me lunch since you always jalan there? (唉,行情歹,希望能省得一餐是一餐)。
Slurp
Organic one, no wonder so expensive la.
Who don't like to tour the world? lim peh no money leh, think can go JB only la.
At Tuesday, December 04, 2007 11:29:00 PM , Whiskoffee said...
i wonder izzit a typo error? 99 bucks?
At Wednesday, December 05, 2007 1:39:00 PM , Anonymous said...
S$99 一粒蜜瓜!!!???S$99 我可以吃5天咧!!!
我想只有那些旅居新加坡的日本人会买咯。。
我在怎么有$$$也不会买咯。。
At Wednesday, December 05, 2007 4:24:00 PM , Old Beng said...
Whiskoffee
It´s not a typo error la, really for rich people only.
Aqua
嘿嘿,我跟你一样不会买,看看罢了。
At Thursday, December 06, 2007 4:13:00 AM , Raven said...
kua leh kong, me go 渣 one time yip zhi mei 奶奶 also no need expensive like that!
At Thursday, December 06, 2007 2:58:00 PM , Old Beng said...
堕落掌橱
你讲乜嘢?此 melon 非彼 melon,不过真係好贵咯。
At Thursday, December 06, 2007 3:30:00 PM , Anonymous said...
Its really true that is selling $99. A single apple from japan already cost $8. hehe
Anyway Old Beng, the Jap restaurant at e same floor as the supermarket is yummy. should try!
Think tomorrow I'll just go there and eat...got craving for their desert now.
At Thursday, December 06, 2007 4:01:00 PM , Old Beng said...
Onethefool
Where are you referring? Maybe I can go there too?
At Friday, December 07, 2007 9:34:00 AM , Anonymous said...
Its call Tampopo, entrance near the cutlery section. The black pig ramen is shoik!
At Friday, December 07, 2007 10:16:00 AM , Old Beng said...
Onethefool
You the can! How do you guess the place lim peh was mentioning even though I purposely blanco the name away.
At Friday, December 07, 2007 11:16:00 AM , Mockingbird said...
九十九块的蜜瓜简直就是杀人放火!贵到太离谱了!
At Friday, December 07, 2007 3:59:00 PM , Old Beng said...
Mockingbird
Ya lor, I can only see see look look.
At Monday, December 10, 2007 9:56:00 AM , Anonymous said...
Singapore only got 1 place selling the melon, I frequent the place quite often. when comes to food...my nose knows the place. muahaha.
Anyway, Happy Birthday!
At Saturday, December 15, 2007 9:58:00 AM , J@n!ce said...
So expensive. I can stock up a variety of fruits with S$99. :)
At Saturday, December 15, 2007 10:07:00 AM , Old Beng said...
Onethefool
Yor nose must be very tok-kong
Janice
Yeah, we felt the same way too.
At Thursday, April 03, 2008 10:07:00 PM , Anonymous said...
fruits are expensive in japan as well.people usually give them as presents.but im sure they are delicious.I want to eat it!haha
At Friday, April 04, 2008 9:43:00 AM , Old Beng said...
Pigmys
Guess Singaporeans are luckier since we can indulge ourselves in so many different kind of cheap fruits.
Your blog is very interesting to me, will drop by more often.
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