First dish - can a chicken rice

Canteen A - which NTU has not been there before? Located at the tip of the north spine along with LWN library and LT1A, it houses the greatest variety of food in NTU. It has a foodcourt, MacDonalds', Subway, Canadian Pizza, Old Chang Kee, the Executive Cafe, Palatte and even Sakae Sushi. And a vending machine selling toasted sandwiches if you don't feel like having any of the above.

So today we start with a Singaporean favourite - the Chicken Rice.

(My friends and I tend to takeaway from the foodcourt as it stinks real bad according to them. I know da-bao isn't the most environmentally friendly thing and it tends to change the taste of the food a little, but I don't want them to suffer either)


Roasted chicken and char siew rice - $3.20

Edible? Yes. Spectacular? Not at all. And I could feel the pain when I parted with $3.20 because the chicken OR char siew rice alone would only cost $2.00. Adding on either ingredient means you pay 60% more. However I personally feel that the $2 portion looked really dismal.

I like the sauce that came along though, being more on the sweet side but not overwhelming. I ordered roasted chicken but the lack of skin makes it taste a lot more bland. Healthy eating, oh wells. The char siew is mostly on the lean side, which I am fine with because I don't like char siew that contains a lot of fats.

Something I would eat from time to time, but definitely not something I'd recommend to a visitor. There are better things to eat at this canteen.

By the way this stall sells soup too! Since they're pretty much the only stall that sells soups I can't compare. But being a soup lover I'd say paying $2.50 for a soup + rice is much more worth the money than getting chicken rice!

First post - hope I'll keep up with this!

Some eat to live, and some live to eat.

I have always been pretty much the latter (with the exceptions of orientation camps in which I eat everything). I've been blessed with a grandmother that was really experienced in cooking, a mother who cooks the best she can, a father who truly appreciates good food, a very picky eater of a sister...... oh, and a boyfriend who loves anything that tastes good and refuses anything that tastes otherwise.

I love good food, and I am game to eat anything with the exception of papaya. I hate tofu as well, but I eat tau huay so I guess it isn't really counted.

I don't have a very good memory as well. So I tend to forget that forgettable food are forgettable and end up going back to the same stall.. only to realize it isn't that nice once again.

Hence this blog. So that I'll remember what is nice and what is not.. in my opinion.