During the recent Qingming holiday, many people traveled to the southern part of Taiwan, causing overcrowding and heavy traffic in Kenting.
One netizen noticed that a chicken cutlet in Kenting has risen to 120 NT dollars per piece, more expensive than the 100 NT dollars charged by chain stores in Taipei.
The netizen expressed surprise and commented that “Taiwanese people are wealthy” to afford such a high price for a single chicken cutlet.
Fried Chicken price issue in Kenting also were featured in this video from 東森新聞 youtube channel.
The original poster commented on the high prices and joked about how rich Taiwanese people are. The vendor defended the price, saying each piece weighed 10 Liang (approximately 375 grams) and was thick and juicy.
The news of the expensive chicken cutlets has generated discussion on social media, with some criticizing the high prices and others defending the vendor’s right to set their own prices.
Netizens mocked, “Only those who are financially free go to Kenting”,
“The Asian Hawaii! Cheap”,
“Only the rich go to Kenting, I can only go to Japan XD”,
“Only the poor complain about domestic travel”,
“Selling for only 120, it’s embarrassing for Kenting”,
“Yesterday someone posted crispy pork in Kenting for 300 yuan”, “Isn’t it too cheap? Isn’t Kenting braised food all over a thousand?”,
“They only make this much money during the holidays, they can only eat dirt on regular days.”
Some people think that the shop owner is still reasonable, “Thick chicken cutlet, let’s see how thick it is first”,
“It’s expensive, but it’s clear and written out, which is okay”,
“It’s still okay in the tourist area”,
“We need to provide context, at least take a picture of what it looks like in real life”,
“Before this, Kenting was mainly criticized for not writing the prices clearly and being too expensive”.
Particularly, one woman in video makes a very specific comment that I have heard before – she says, yes, this is expensive, but if I am in Kenting I will still pay this price. Probably, this summarizes situation, and we should not expect anything cheap in Kenting in terms of food prices in Kenting Night Market.