Bad news: Breakfast in Vietnam may set you back for the day
By VnExpress March 3, 2017 | 12:00 am GMT+7
Hanoi and Ho Chi Minh City are among the world’s most expensive places to break your fast.
The latest Bloomberg study on breakfast spending versus daily incomes reveals wide affordability gaps between the top and bottom cities in some regions.
Findings were calculated based on market prices in the last 12-18 months provided by Numbeo, a database that compiles the global cost of living.
According to Numbeo, Hanoians must shell out about 12 percent of their average daily incomes for breakfast. In other Asian cities, such as Osaka in Japan, the morning meal costs less than 1 percent of a day’s pay.
Vietnam belongs to the Asia-Pacific region of emerging countries where breakfast costs on average 4.8 percent of a day's wage.
Average breakfast cost as percentage of daily income
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