After racking up a RM720 (S$230) invoice at a hotpot restaurant in Penang, this buyer is questioning if he was overcharged for his dinner.
Taking to Fb on June 11, Peter Ken complained that the price for “a few dishes” shared with six other companions was “unreasonable”.
A photograph of his invoice at GS Steam Scorching Pot Seafood confirmed that he had ordered a number of seafood dishes for dinner that day.
This included 4 huge mantis shrimp for $95, a “Set B” – consisting of prawns, fishballs and greens – for $88, seven items of scallops costing $18 and drinks for $11.
Ken additionally voiced his confusion about how he was charged $8 for a fried fish facet dish.
Within the feedback, a number of netizens had been shocked on the exorbitant costs of a number of the dishes.
However a number of others additionally identified that the worth was affordable, contemplating that a lot of the dishes he had ordered had been recent seafood.
Talking to Malaysian information outlet China Press, the restaurant spokesperson insisted that the 1.25 kilograms of mantis shrimp that Ken had paid for was cheaper than most restaurants.
“The mantis shrimp that we promote could be very low cost. And lots of diners patronise our restaurant due to how inexpensive they’re,” the restaurant stated, including that the client won’t concentrate on the market value of mantis shrimp.
A lot of the dishes – together with the $88 seafood set – had their costs listed on the menu, the spokesperson identified.
In a sequence of feedback on Fb, a netizen who recognized himself because the supervisor of the restaurant, suggested that Ken might not have given the full picture in his complaint on social media.
“In addition they ordered two flower crabs, however I’ve forgotten to incorporate the worth within the invoice,” the supervisor stated, whereas clarifying that the drinks for seven diners got here in jugs and never cups.
Ken was not the one diner who had questions when he was handed the invoice after his meal.
In April, a bunch of 9 prospects of a Kedah restaurant complained that their meal of seven dishes – including pork ribs, kung pao prawns and braised tofu – was too expensive at $48.
