Talking about real butter, not premium fat spread , those mixed with palm oil/ other veggie oil
100% butter
A small block costs so much, but it's considered a basic food in other countries, costing them very little

Price of 1 kg butter, cheapest
Tesco UK RM 32.30
Tesco Malaysia RM 42.45
Coles AU RM 31.61

This post has been edited by jfleong: Oct 29 2017, 08:02 PM

Nope. Margarine got trans fat . Search YouTube for videos regarding this

A little bit of chemistry here
Plant fats usually have more unsaturated fat , i.e. fat molecules with at least one double bond (saturated fat have all single bonds) . This means that it's more liquid (lower melting point)
in the process of making margarine, they hydrogenise the oil, breaking down double bonds into single bonds by adding hydrogen to the bond
but for some of the bonds, the orientation is opposite of the naturally occurring bonds , which is why it's called trans-fat

https://www.tesco.com/groceries/en-GB/products/290921181
1 kg = 5.80 GBP = Rm32.30
https://eshop.tesco.com.my/groceries/en-GB/...ch?query=butter
Here 1 kg RM42.45

Even absolute prices already more expensive, let alone accounting for difference in income

How did you infer that?

Trans fat is the absolute worst, shouldn't even be in your diet
Unsaturated fat is better than saturated fat, especially poly unsaturated (means more than one double bond per molecule)

Their PPP per Capita 42100 USD , ours 26900