With price hike, many using less oil when cooking


Smart consumer: Mahendran comparing cooking oil prices at a supermarket in George Town. — ZHAFARAN NASIB/The Star

GEORGE TOWN: With the spiralling price of cooking oil, many are using less of it.

Taxi driver M. Mahendran, 60, said his wife was trying her best to “stretch” the 5kg cooking oil bottle to last for a month.

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