Cockles shortage hits laksa and char kway teow hawkers
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Cockles shortage hits hawkers selling laksa and char kway teow
By Ting Kheng Siong | Posted: 05 May 2010 2016 hrsSINGAPORE: Some laksa and char kway teow lovers are a giving the local fare a miss - because they did not come with cockles.
This is due to a cut in supply in Singapore over the past two weeks, as one of the three approved suppliers is facing severe manpower shortage.
Supply from the company Kim Guan Food Industries was cut by half.
It tried to meet the needs of customer that require fresh cockles daily but was unable to meet demand.
Hawkers have lost some customers who would rather not eat their favourite dishes without cockles.
Sheng Siong supermarket, which usually orders one tonne of fresh cockles and 600 kilograms of shelled cockles a day, is left with no supply on some days.
Phillip Leow, area manager, purchasing at Sheng Siong, says: "The supply of cockles meat is very constant but unfortunately for the past 10 days, we have met up with some shortage.
"Fortunately we have still managed to get some supplies but unfortunately, it's still not up to our demand -maybe around 50 per cent of our requirements."
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NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOoooooooooooooooo!!!!
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Fishermen dont make very much off cockles =) Their weight + size to selling price ratio is really really bad, say as compared to muscles etc. I think in an television interview I once watched, one was quoted as saying "We continue to bring in cockles as a service to the people who cannot do without them in their food",
On a brighter note, from a medical standpoint, not bringing in cockles is actually a good thing =) Cockles have a high risk of spreading Hepatits A, so all you cockles lovers out there, go get your hepatitis A vaccination done and eat raw seafood in peace!
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Singapore mai hum.
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Oh, that explains the lack of it in today's dinner serving of steamboat.
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Don't tell me hawkers all putting hum into mee siam now.
Elections coming.
Mee siam mai hum?
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Originally posted by charlize:
Don't tell me hawkers all putting hum into mee siam now.
Elections coming.
Mee siam mai hum?
all expecting Lau Lee's son to walk to their hawker centres?
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Originally posted by the Bear:
all expecting Lau Lee's son to walk to their hawker centres?
Sign of election coming?
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Originally posted by ditzy:
Oh, that explains the lack of it in today's dinner serving of steamboat.
Yum Yum steamboat =)
Where did you go for your steamboat ditzy? Vivocity has a nice $10 steamboat set if you go during lunch.
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Originally posted by Lubb-Shhh-Dubb:
Yum Yum steamboat =)
Where did you go for your steamboat ditzy? Vivocity has a nice $10 steamboat set if you go during lunch.
Today I was at the marina bay area, so I went to Yet Con for steamboat dinner rather than Jpot. I was with a colleague, just paying my dues before I bid sayonara.
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Sayonara? You're leaving?!?
Sigh i better get those damn Calamari Rings then ... otherwise wont get the chance to see you bungee off the singapore flyer before you go =(
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doesn't matter, i don't eat cockles.
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Originally posted by Lubb-Shhh-Dubb:
Sayonara? You're leaving?!?
Sigh i better get those damn Calamari Rings then ... otherwise wont get the chance to see you bungee off the singapore flyer before you go =(
If you can get pizza hut to get you their calamari rings thru either delivery or takeaway from restaurant count, you win, its that simple. I won't make a bet like that if it could be done.
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Grin yeah yeah i wont bother trying ;P I wouldnt step into a pizza hut anyway, when there's a Dominos right at my doorstep and Spizza next to the GF's workplace =)
But yes, back to the topic of cockles. Wouldnt want to hijack this thread =)
COCKLES.
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Niar mine... I dun take hum... lol..
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Originally posted by the Bear:
all expecting Lau Lee's son to walk to their hawker centres?
Maybe some cheeky hawker will offer him a plate of mee siam with hum.
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Actually mee siam got put hum wan meh? How come I never see before.
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Originally posted by Junyang700:
Actually mee siam got put hum wan meh? How come I never see before.
Famous recipe.
Not many people know about it.
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I can still eat my favourite a bit wet fried kway tiao with cockles at Amoy Street Food centre just yesterday leh.
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I am those who dont and wont ever eat them
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Originally posted by charlize:
Famous recipe.
Not many people know about it.
Infamous may be.
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????its been like that for years.nothing new.
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Here come the hum....
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cockles are not a necessity, water is