Eating and drinking: no official statistic measures what eating out costs here, so these are prices from the menu each place publishes on its own website, and each row says where it comes from. It is a sample, not an average: there are cheaper and dearer places, and tourist areas cost more.
A food level is not a number we chose. It is two lists of dishes from the table above, a cheap day and a dear one, and the price is the sum.
- Bare minimum: convenience stores and counters
- From Turkish toast with jam, peanut butter or Vegemite, Moore & Moore + Pho tai (beef noodle soup with rare beef), Thanh Dat (A$29.00) to Vietnamese white coffee, hot or iced, Thanh Dat + Eggs on toast, poached or fried, Moore & Moore + Pho tai (beef noodle soup with rare beef), Thanh Dat (A$43.70).
- Local and cheap
- From Vietnamese white coffee, hot or iced, Thanh Dat + Turkish toast with jam, peanut butter or Vegemite, Moore & Moore + Pho tai (beef noodle soup with rare beef), Thanh Dat (A$36.00) to Vietnamese white coffee, hot or iced, Thanh Dat + Eggs on toast, poached or fried, Moore & Moore + Pho tai (beef noodle soup with rare beef), Thanh Dat + Com tam (broken rice with grilled pork, fried egg and pork loaf), Thanh Dat (A$61.70).
- Mixed: set meals and one sit-down dinner
- From Vietnamese white coffee, hot or iced, Thanh Dat + Pho tai (beef noodle soup with rare beef), Thanh Dat + Deluxe fish and chips, with coleslaw, Cicerello's (Fremantle) + Great Northern beer, 330 ml bottle, Thanh Dat (A$59.90) to Vietnamese white coffee, hot or iced, Thanh Dat + Eggs on toast, poached or fried, Moore & Moore + Cheeseburger with fries, Little Creatures (Fremantle) + Pint of Little Creatures Pale Ale, 570 ml, Little Creatures (Fremantle) (A$66.70).
- Restaurants most of the time
- From Vietnamese white coffee, hot or iced, Thanh Dat + Deluxe fish and chips, with coleslaw, Cicerello's (Fremantle) + Cheeseburger with fries, Little Creatures (Fremantle) + Schooner of Little Creatures Pale Ale, 425 ml, Little Creatures (Fremantle) (A$70.90) to Vietnamese white coffee, hot or iced, Thanh Dat + Cheeseburger with fries, Little Creatures (Fremantle) + Fish and chips (beer-battered amberjack), Little Creatures (Fremantle) + Pint of Little Creatures Pale Ale, 570 ml, Little Creatures (Fremantle) + Glass of The Mistral Sirens (Margaret River wine), 150 ml, Little Creatures (Fremantle) (A$94.00).
