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Your numbers are out of date. In 2002 I recall eating a huge bowl of noodles in rural Yunnan for CNY1. Today an average "fancy lunch" costs at least CNY60 in a
by contingencies 8y ago
Your numbers are out of date.
In 2002 I recall eating a huge bowl of noodles in rural Yunnan for CNY1. Today an average "fancy lunch" costs at least CNY60 in a Tier 1 city. Hell, even one beer usually costs that. That's USD$10.
In Shenzhen, an average bowl of noodles is CNY20+. (The cheapest of the cheap, if you can find it and are willing to eat it, is about CNY8-16.) In the airports it's CNY60+ nationally. In high speed trains nationally a central kitchen produced low quality mass-meal in a thermoform container is CNY45, and perhaps purchased by 1/3 of travelers.
For more reference prices take a look at http://ele.me/ http://ele.me/ delivery service. The delivery fees alone are around CNY7 (USD$1+). This is not "fancy lunch in the most expensive part of town" but "the stuff the average white collar worker eats daily".
- baybal2 8y agoNo... These are prices in an award winning place in downtown Shenzhen https://imgur.com/a/XqTC9zE https://imgur.com/a/XqTC9zE For a snob, one can go to Michelin rated Putien where you can get few very satiating dishes under CNY40
- contingencies 8y agoA few places is not the same as the market as a whole. Regarding your example: yes, you can order some tofu for 23元 but you will need three such dishes for one person to feel sated and such places have minimum order sizes for delivery that typically exceed 2 dishes. (So at your example place, 3 x 25元 average dish price = 75元 per head, plus delivery fee) PS. Downtown Shenzhen is called Futian (福田; "abundant fields") not Putien (which is not even Pinyin, suggesting you are an overseas Chinese person or foreigner with little mainland exposure). I have been based here for most of the last 18 years.
- baybal2 8y agoI mean this Putien - http://www.putien.com http://www.putien.com Are you in SZ right now?