Trade Bans, Inflation Send Food Prices Up
Soki Wu, owner of Wu’s Katong Mei Wei Boneless Chicken Rice stall stand infant of his stall in a food court at a shopping mall in Singapore, Malaysia. AP photo en he was serving didn’t quite taste the same_ and wasn’t as good. That’s because Wu had changed to using frozen chickens after Malaysia limited the export of live chickens and the more affordable, yummier broiler chicken to offset local price hikes. For Singapore, which sources a third of its poultry from Malaysia, the impact was immediate. (AP Photo)
Soki Wu’s food stall, tucked in a food court in a shopping mall in Singapore, is a crowd favorite for its fresh, juicy “chicken rice,”…


