{"id":56261,"date":"2026-05-29T16:19:35","date_gmt":"2026-05-29T08:19:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/?p=56261"},"modified":"2026-05-29T16:19:35","modified_gmt":"2026-05-29T08:19:35","slug":"channelnewsasia-jonas-koh-needs-to-sell-at-least-40-plates-of-nasi-lemak-a-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/?p=56261","title":{"rendered":"@channelnewsasia Jonas Koh needs to sell at least 40 plates of nasi lemak a day &#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><br \/>\n@channelnewsasia <\/p>\n<p>Jonas Koh needs to sell at least 40 plates of nasi lemak a day before he can draw his own salary. At S$6.90 a plate, he keeps about S$1.30 after subtracting costs for ingredients, rent and utilities. But instead of cutting portions, Koh insists on serving a whole chicken leg that he claims is roughly six times the size of what other nasi lemak hawker stalls serve. #cnainsider #singapore #hawker<\/p>\n<p> \u266c original sound &#8211; CNA &#8211; CNA<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"tiktok-embed\" cite=\"https:\/\/www.tiktok.com\/@channelnewsasia\/video\/7643749614763396370\" data-video-id=\"7643749614763396370\" data-embed-from=\"oembed\" style=\"max-width:605px; min-width:325px;\">\n<section> <a target=\"_blank\" title=\"@channelnewsasia\" href=\"https:\/\/www.tiktok.com\/@channelnewsasia?refer=embed\" rel=\"noopener\">@channelnewsasia<\/a> <\/p>\n<p>Jonas Koh needs to sell at least 40 plates of nasi lemak a day before he can draw his own salary. At S$6.90 a plate, he keeps about S$1.30 after subtracting costs for ingredients, rent and utilities. But instead of cutting portions, Koh insists on serving a whole chicken leg that he claims is roughly six times the size of what other nasi lemak hawker stalls serve. <a title=\"cnainsider\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.tiktok.com\/tag\/cnainsider?refer=embed\" rel=\"noopener\">#cnainsider<\/a> <a title=\"singapore\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.tiktok.com\/tag\/singapore?refer=embed\" rel=\"noopener\">#singapore<\/a> <a title=\"hawker\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.tiktok.com\/tag\/hawker?refer=embed\" rel=\"noopener\">#hawker<\/a><\/p>\n<p> <a target=\"_blank\" title=\"\u266c original sound - CNA - CNA\" href=\"https:\/\/www.tiktok.com\/music\/original-sound-CNA-7643749677489212168?refer=embed\" rel=\"noopener\">\u266c original sound &#8211; CNA &#8211; CNA<\/a> <\/section>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/www.tiktok.com\/embed.js\"><\/script><br \/>\n<br \/>\n<center><\/p>\n<p>Tap Video and \ud83d\udd08 To Unmute<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.tiktok.com\/@channelnewsasia\/video\/7643749614763396370\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Tiktok <\/a> Credits <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tiktok.com\/@channelnewsasia\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><center\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>@channelnewsasia Jonas Koh needs to sell at least 40 plates of nasi lemak a day before he can draw his own salary. At S$6.90 a&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":56263,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[90],"tags":[20308,269,13329,1549,9250,2962,1084,859,148],"class_list":["post-56261","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-food-eats-hungry","tag-channelnewsasia","tag-day","tag-jonas","tag-koh","tag-lemak","tag-nasi","tag-plates","tag-sell","tag-singapore-food","wpcat-90-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56261","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=56261"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56261\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/56263"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=56261"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=56261"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=56261"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}