Vegetable prices rocketed--a white cabbage cost over NT $ 100-and from August to October consumer price inflation hovered at record levels of 5-7 %. Housewives going to the vegetable market really did feel the anguish and alarm of being faced with prices they simply couldn't afford. Then, last year began with an even larger wave of across-the-board price rises.
菜價狂飆，一顆高麗菜標價一百多元，從八月到十月，物價指數破記錄地徘徊在百分之五到百分之七的高檔，家庭主婦到了菜市場，真有無從買起的心疼與恐慌。