The $1 Shanghai Lunch

Oh dang, that totally is a steal. I gotta go back there with my wife and enjoy the food :)

-Mike

I'd like to order some salad.I don't like noodle and beer.$1 would be enough for 2 days.It is interesting to be a Chinese some days.

I think if I live in China, I may spend less on meals but I may have to spend more money trying to reduce the weight I'm putting on.

Peter Lee

$1 for a lunch sounds great, but thinking it's 20% of average income for every-day lunch is depressing

$1 as in USD right? I hope?

I couldn't imagine spending 20% of my income on lunch like that if I were only making $150 a month. I don't think I'd go dining at all.

This weird, and imported Ice Cream is truly damn expensive and a meal with a bear its almost free, thats very amusing. Seems you are having a great time in China, Is in it John?

7 Yuan? So coool men> hehe :)

for 3rd world country like mine, you can have something cheaper than that,, but having a beer,, it's a more really cheap, I think you're only paying for the beer, and have the meal as a bonus,, hehehe

Those chopsticks look awesome! Under the mushrooms looks like udon noodles?

True that...true that...I'm thinking about going back maybe after graduation from college.

Don't forget Din Tai Fung while you're there!

Awesomeness! I have NEVER had lunch at that price. However, in India we get beer for $2 and a Chinese dish would cost another $2. That would be in a decent restaurant. If your having the same stuff on the roadside it would end up on MAX $3 spending :)

That beer is 40 cents. Right? the noodle will be 52 cents.

Asahi beer costs 40 cents. Right? Then the instant noodle is 52 cents.

haha Cheaper drinks. I remember you video you posted few days ago about cheap beers.

Sounds yummie.....

That looks great! And Chinese food is so healthy too.

What I love about the East is that you can eat out every day and healthily and generally for cheap - if you don't drink beer every day :)

You can't do that in the West. Healthy food costs a premium.

Chris

Wow! Thats terrible. I guess they got use to it but are still suffering from inside. Basically, If you give to a family 2000$ worth of groceries, they will have more then enough to eat for the entire year. Thats something I would consider to do.

Not sure there is anywhere in the US you can get food and drink, heck even water, for under a dollar.

That's quite unbelievable. It's unbelievable how expensive other countries when you compare it to China. How did it taste?

You disappointed me. I thought there will be a frog fry, snake soup, dog thigh, cat noodles. I could see nothing sort of like that here!

In Malaysia, you can get a Nasi Lemak, coconut milk rice with sambal (chili mixed with other ingredients) for RM1.

RM1 equals to about $0.30

mmmmmm..I plan on only having leftover KFC

What are the ingredients in the soup?

Every time I read about how cheaply things are over seas I get the urge to move away and live like a king haha. It is crazy what value the dollar has in different parts of the world.

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