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Q: How much money do you spend each day on food in China?
On average, how much do you spend on food? I don't think the western food is that great, so I only splurge on food 2 or 3 times a month. I'm a pretty big guy, and I think I average spending around 70 RMB on food per day. It helps that fruit and vegetables are much cheaper in China.
We spend about 50 per person (2 person household) Typically most meals are at home, on a typical week we'll eat out once or twice.
If we eat out, it will be 25-50 per person per meal, for just normal food, like a noodle or a couple of dishes with rice.
i spend about 40 RMB a day on food - including plenty of fruit. I don't have a large appetite and eat less during the summer.
I probably average around 100 RMB a day. Mostly because I'm lazy though and don't cook. There are days when I spend less and then weekends where I spend more, so that's just the average.
I average about 80 a day. If I go to the import store I spend more. I don't often cook at home and rarely eat Chinese food.
Average at 50 rmb/person. Diner at home, lunch outside.
I'd say, all told, about 50RMB per person (between two) unless we ate at a western food joint.
The standard day would be - breakfast of french toast or fruit and yoghurt (10RMB tops - probably much less, breakfast was a negligible expense), lunch at a local Uyghur restaurant that I loved (max 15RMB) or a local Chinese buffet place (15RMB for all we could eat) then a stir fry of rice/chicken/veggies or some kind of homemade stew for dinner, perhaps a bowl of pasta (ingredients maybe 15-20RMB per person with lots of meat/veggies) washed down by a couple of local beers (sweet f*ck all RMB).
Occasionally we'd eat lunch at a local western owned restaurant, in which case lunch would work out more like 70RMB per person. Again, occasionally, we'd go out to the local expat bar or to a nice restaurant for dinner, and then all bets were off.
About 50 rmb on weekdays and a bit more on weekends
guess mostly not more than 20 (alone). since we are 2 and we cook at home we still mostly under 20 rmb a day.
therefor often pay over 100rmb for one meal at the weekend like hot pot, kaorou and so
At the butchers mutton is 75 kuai/kg and pork 38/kg. The best thing is a Uyghir restaurant with a clay oven. A terrific meal of spicy mutton bones (which incl meat) costs about Y40.
Today I've spent Y21 on a bowl of noodles and 3 skewers.
Dinner is tba.
Usually I spend 10kuai per day, but I now have to pay for my yogart addiction...so now I am spending 50-60 kuai per day.
I just paid 128 on Indian food delivery!
jesus how can you guys find such cheap food? 15 kuai all u can eat? id say me and my wife more than 100 a day if we cook. 100-150 if go out for lunch and 250-400 for dinner. i realize that sound alot on this list but these arent expensive places im going to..... i gotta leave shenzhen
dom87:
for example these small "lamien shops" there is almost everything below 8 rmb
cooking is cheap anyways, 200g meat ~8rmb +3rmb potatoes+some sauce and 1 rmb vegetables makes maybe 14rmb for 2 persons
i really dunno where you are eating, i live in shanghai and its for sure not cheaper than shenzhen.
people told me shanghai is sooooo expensive before i came here but i guess so people just go to the wrong places.
if you go to real restaurants its true you pay alot more but those street shops are cheap.
downstairs in front of my apartment, 6 beef dumplings 3rmb
lilichristian:
$14 for 2 person is really cheap. + rice and water and electricity = should be $16-17.
Tiny dumplings in my town is $6-8 for 20. It's really tiny but enough for me as a dinner.
MissA:
Actually, thinking back, it wasn't so much all-you-can-eat as more-than-anyone-could-possibly-eat - a big plate of rice with three veggie dishes was 10 quai, add one RMB for each meat for veggie substitution and then an egg on top for 2RMB, so I'd normally spend 10, and the BF 13-15 quai. They gave us a whole load of food, and I'd be told off by my Chinese friends for wasting food by not being able to eat it all.
It was possibly to find yummy local soups for 8 kuai but they were a bit carb-heavy and lacking in nutrients for me to eat on a daily basis.
Not half as much as I spend on beer.
royceH:
Hey Martian, do you really drink a lot of beer? Everyday, or what?
What does your wife say?
How much is it in your city?
mArtiAn:
Do you know what, i'm actually not drinking anywhere near as much as I used to. Being a daddy and a boozer just doesn't work. So yeh, I was talking bollocks, i'm actually becoming a boring, responsible pappa.
100-150 per day, that's for two people. I don't really eat Chinese food and often eat out.
Well, I'm very good at saving money and I'm female so that's why my expenses on food are much less than you guys! (PS: I always eat out)
>>> Weekdays - less than RMB 15 dollars per day
Breakfast : $1-2 fruit/soy milk + $1 cake
Lunch : $8 a set meal in company canteen ($4 if I got somebody to share)
Dinner : $4-6 noodles/bread/cakes
>>> Weekend - less than RMB 100 dollars per day
Breakfast : $1-2 fruit/soy milk + $2 bread
Lunch : $2 bread + $20-30 cafe
Dinner : $20-80 fancier meals for weekends haha!
About 200 dollars per month for me , this is only what I pay
but most days I be invited by others so I don't pay .. Hahaha
royceH:
If someone invites you then you should try your best to pay half the bill. Or reciprocate.
I'm about sick to death of bludgers who just take take take.
Nothing but arseholes.
Week days : 80 RMB
Weekends : 100 to 150 RMB
Exclusively for food of two individuals.
When we used to live in China:
- 10-20 RMB per breakfast, if we didn't cook.
- 15-30 RMB per lunch
- 30 RMB per dinner at a nice restaurant.
Really cheap.
I only eat about 3/4 times a week, and when I do i spend about 30RMB per meal so around 90 RMB per week, sometimes less.
Great way to save money and lose weight.
royceH:
What! You only eat 3 or 4 times per week? Really? I find that hard to believe. Why?
If true, you absolutely must be a brainwashed, Chinese female.
Please, in your own best interests, change your eating habits.
during winter: 30 RMB on average a day
Summer: less - it is too hot to eat more than 1 meal a day
i have lost weight i can't afford to lose every summer in China
