Higher rent to higher price, small Gai Daan Jai shops either move or close down

Hong Kong snacks is a small business, the rent of a small shop is always more expensive than a large shop comparing by dollars per square meter. Why every time many tourists ask the shop is disappear when they return only in few months? It is because the rent can be increase from US$5,000 to $11,000 per month in the same year. The price for a piece of Gai Daan Jai is only selling at US$1.5 but need to spend 8 minutes in the molding not even mention about the preparation beforehand.

Shop owner can either increase the price, or working harder from 10 hours to 12 hours, but you should understand that 1 minutes has only 60 seconds in our Earth. Shop owner also need to work faster with 2 hands seems a 4-hands persons during the peak hours. Last, you will see how exhausted a day and I seldom see a shop is willing to closed one single day in the whole year. That's will be the Chinese New Year if it counts.

The rent of Fung Gei (豐記雞蛋仔) Gai Daan Jai shop in 2014 is US$25,641/month, thus he need to share half of the shop to other selling Pearl Milk Tea.

What's eating Gai Daan Jai the most, not local Hong Kong people nor tourists like you, but the property owners will bite more than half of the piece before the shop owner hands it to you.