#hawkers — Public Fediverse posts

#LetterOfTheWeek
Strengthen #enforcement, close loopholes to protect licensed #F&B operators
🧐🇸🇬"Law-abiding #hawkers & biz owners pay levies, contribute CPF for local employees & operate under valid licences. Those who follow te rules end up bearing higher costs while rule-breakers may gain an unfair edge. Te #authorities shld strengthen inter-agency coordination, incl'g cross-checks.. Firm & visible enforcement will help restore confidence & ensure a level playing field"
https://www.straitstimes.com/opinion/forum/forum-strengthen-enforcement-and-close-loopholes-to-protect-licensed-fb-operators

#LetterOfTheWeek
🇸🇬Forum: Biggest challenge #hawkers face is #economics, not #consumer #culture
"Coffee shops changing hands for #millions of dollars shows tt many #investors see #coffeeshops as #speculative #assets to be flipped, rather than #businesses to be operated. Stall operators have suffered fr large #arbitrary #rent increases in such #kopi tiams.. #hawkercentres “play a role in moderating increases in #food #prices, thereby performing an important #socialservice”"
https://www.straitstimes.com/opinion/forum/forum-biggest-challenge-hawkers-face-is-economics-not-consumer-culture

+1
#Singapore #food isn’t what it used to be!
"commercial #foodstandards hv been this way for a long time. In my childhood, I’ve heard the common refrain of food in the past being much better.. #Hawkers can teach hired hands & partners #howtocook their dishes, but they can’t teach them to #care.. part of the solution is to revive the art of #homecooking.. potent reminders of what #heritage foods ought to #taste like, when no #shortcuts are taken & nothing is #skimped on"
https://www.channelnewsasia.com/commentary/singapore-food-hawker-local-dishes-taste-standards-4722176

“Arthwait was in the fetters of his own egoism; while he pronounced himself father and grandfather of all spiritual science, in language that would have seemed stilted and archaic to Henry James, or Osric, and presumptuous in the mouth of an archangel … He wanted to evoke the devil, but was terrified lest he should be successful. However, nobody could be more pedantically pious than he in following out the practical prescriptions of these absurd charm-books.”

https://library.hrmtc.com/2024/06/16/arthwait-was-in-the-fetters-of-his-own-egoism-while-he-pronounced-himself-father-and-grandfather-of-all-spiritual-science-in-language-that-would-have-seemed-stilted-and-archaic-to-henry-james-or/

Migrant Hawker, Aeshna mixta Canon 400D EF 100 2.8 f/13 1/320 iso: 800 Prague, Czech Republic 9/21/2009 #odonata #Aeshnidae #Hawkers #dragonflies #damselfles #insects #invertebrates #macro #Wetlands

Migrant Hawker, Aeshna mixta Canon 400D EF 100 2.8 f/4 1/400 iso: 400 Celakovice-Jirina, Czech Republic 9/24/2010 #Odonata #Dragonflies #hawkers #Aeshnidae #Insects #invertebrates #Wetlands #Macro

Migrant Hawker, Aeshna mixta Canon 400D EF 100 2.8 f/5.6 1/400 iso: 400 Celakovice-Jirina, Czech Republic 9/23/2010 #Osonata #Aeshnidae #Hawkers #Dragonflies #Insects #invertebrates #macro #Wetlands

Emperor Dragonfly, Anax imperator Canon 400D EF 75-300 3.5-5.6 f/14 1/80 iso: 200 Prague, Czech Republic 6/2/2008 #odonata #Hawkers #aeshnidae #Dragonflies #insects #invertebrates #macro #Wetlands

Just looking at the old falconry tests, as one does.

#hawkers #beaters #eyass #falconry

Emperor Dragonfly, Anax imperator Canon 400D EF 75-300 f/14 1/80 iso: 200 Prague, Czech Republic 6/2/2008
#Dragonflies #Aeshnidae ##hawkers #Odonata #Insects #invertebrates #Macro #Wetlands

Migrant Hawker, Aeshna mixta Canon 400D EF 100 2.8 f/5 1/400 iso: 400 Celakovice-Jirina, Czech Republic 9/21/2010 #odonata #Aeshna #Aeshnidae #mosaicDarters #Hawkers #Dragonflies #insects #invertebrates #macro #Wetlands