The art of ordering economical rice 杂菜饭

[garlic]

The last i heard, Peesai is the monaco of the east... Seems they are confused, Swiss or French, they cant make up their mind...

 

[johnny333]

even when a patient or two just pass on just before lunch

No lah, sometimes the patient checks out early skipping lunch. People are so happy to get out of hospital. Why would anyone hang around just for hospital food

 

[johnny333]

if you want to cut costs, you should just have ordered the big portion $3 mutton. You can then go home and cook rice in the microwave to save $0.50. For veggies, you could have just dropped by the supermarket to buy something like baby dou miao to go with the meal.

Just wanted to warn people than microwave is not the best method of cooking.

It kills the vitamins, anti-oxidants,..... of whatever you are cooking

 

[drifter]

have to remember those stall owners are paying high rent every month .
you want to eat still want to complain ....go back home cook is better , or bring bento to work .
if you cannot afford a $5.00 meal ..something is wrong with your life ..

 

[Ramseth]

have to remember those stall owners are paying high rent every month .
you want to eat still want to complain ....go back home cook is better , or bring bento to work .
if you cannot afford a $5.00 meal ..something is wrong with your life ..

You missed the point too. It's not about S$5 per meal, it's about I don't want to eat so much. Why force me to buy S$5 worth when I can only eat S$3 worth at most?

But you hit a point too. You don't sell, I don't buy. Go supermarket buy, go home and cook. However, office workers don't have much of that choice. Either waste food and money (buy big portions required but can't finish) or waste health (finish it since paid for paid it, grow fat with all the diseases that come along) or fast through lunchtime.

When I worked office hours, fasting through lunchtime was common two or three times per week for me. Actually, not really fasting, snacking with a small pack of chips or nuts and a cup of tea or cola.

People who read too much about nutrition without understanding would frown in horror at me like, You eating and drinking all these "junks?" Well, they just came back from their lunchbreaks with laksas and charkwayteows and ice kachang dessets.

My little pack of chips or nuts, and little cup of drink, are at most 150 grams total, salt and sugar included. Convert all to pure fats and it wouldn't kill or harm me or anyone. Most of it would be burnt off energy by the end of the day (not accumulated calories) since I was busy working.

The amount of foods these people eat at lunch amount to kilos! And they read magazines and websites, don't eat "junk" food, that's alright!

 

[drifter]

i understand where you coming from ...and i agreed with you . i just hate people who complain about how expensive the food is if they really want to eat at that " expensive " stall . anyway , its just food .
i know alot of my friends who drive expensve car and carry expensive bags or wearing expensive watches kpkp , but when they are paying $5 a meal they hold on to their wallet as their life depend on it ....

 

[silverfox@]

Art of ordering economical rice?

1. Try ordering Teochew Economical rice, the price is super heavenly
I like the not so salty type of food, but the price can be very high.

2. Order from franchise economical rice stalls and not those sole proprietary stalls.
Price normally cheaper or more. Because franchise ones have many many outlets and their food cost is cheaper because they buy in bulk more than a sole proprietary stalls. Another thing would be as workers, they want to distribute out fast if not cannot sell finish, cannot go home early:p

 

[Jah_rastafar_I]

eat from the rubbish bin. It's totally free.

 

[Velma]

Why so cheapskate? It is just a small amount of difference. I think those who are such cheapskates are usually those who own a car, but are struggling to pay up the loans, hence, the penny-pinching ways.

 

[Ramseth]

eat from the rubbish bin. It's totally free.

Actually, you hit a valid and vital point here. There was a time when our ancestors (all races anywhere on earth) could drink from any river stream and eat any wild grown fruit or veggie without even thinking of washing and cooking. Now anyone who tries that would probably end up in hospital, or cemetry. That's over-sanitized loss of immunity.

 

[wahlaneh]

wahlaneh...
only $2 still want cheap want fresh want big?
must be so free to pick n choose - lunchtime only 1 hr some only 45min u know?

wahlaneh...
another case of "jia ba boh sai pang" (eat full no shit to put).
$2 chap chye png cheap cheap also tokcok so much.

 

[johnny333]

Why so cheapskate? It is just a small amount of difference. I think those who are such cheapskates are usually those who own a car, but are struggling to pay up the loans, hence, the penny-pinching ways.

I actually sympathise with these feelings :(

If this was an isolated price hike, I'm sure there would only be isolated complaints, but this is part of a systematic price hikes caused by the PAP. They've increased the cost of power, public transport, rentals,.....

Remember that the root cause of the price hikes is the PAP .

 

[eatshitndie]

char kway teow in san jose, california...

 

[eatshitndie]

hainanese chicken with rice in san jose, california...

 

[eatshitndie]

nasi lemak in san jose, california...

 

[eatshitndie]

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[eatshitndie]

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[eatshitndie]

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[johnny333]

char kway teow in san jose, california...

How much do those dishes cost

 

[wahlaneh]

wahlaneh...
fly 1 time to california can eat how many times $2 chap chye png liao?