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PM enjoys House canteen to kill 'expensive lunches' talk

PM enjoys House canteen to kill 'expensive lunches' talk

Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra lunched at the Government House canteen yesterday to quash rumours that lunches inside her office cost about Bt200,000 a meal.

After chairing a meeting of state agencies concerned with flood mitigation, Yingluck went downstairs to the canteen with Deputy Prime Minister and Interior Minister Yongyuth Wichaidit, Deputy Prime Minister Kowit Watana, PM's Office Minister Krissana Sihalak, and deputy government spokeswoman Anuttama Amornwiwat.

Yingluck's presence in the canteen drew a lot of attention from officials and reporters. She hit back at claims that her meals cost about Bt200,000.

"Most of all, some said I always have lunches that cost about Bt200,000. So, I would like to show that I have normal food. I like to have curry because it's simple and doesn't cost much. I would be fat if I ate Bt200,000 meals," she said.

To make it fair for food shops in the canteen, Yingluck ordered items from all of them. The dishes she ordered included omelette, fried Sepat Siam fish, fried chicken, chicken curry, friend Chinese sausages, bitter gourd soup, fried hot minced meat and Chinese meatball soup.

Speaking to reporters, Yingluck said she'd told her secretary much earlier that she would like to have a chance to eat lunch at the canteen.

She said she liked the taste of the food at the canteen and always had omelette for meals.

However, the premier avoided answering media questions about her brother Thaksin's revelation that she called him and said she was tired. He has been in Cambodia for an economic conference since last Friday.

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