About 20 years ago, I have had heard that the average price for a typical lunch meal in Japan was between 800 and 1,000 yen, which in 2004 terms, was around SGD 12 to SGD 161. That cost, in local terms, was reserved for restaurants, not hawker centres and coffee shops where the price then […]

source: https://thefinance.sg/2024/04/25/the-price-of-a-thousand-yen/