Can a vegetarian

We are usually spoilt for choice when it comes to food like caipeng (aka 菜贩, where you choose your dishes that go with a plate of rice), whether they're Chinese, Muslim, Indian, or Vegetarian. But once thing we can't really choose - for the food to be hot. Hence we tend to eat caipeng that has already gone cold as the ingredients have been exposed to the atmosphere for.. a time period that we don't know. Managed to get hot caipeng? You're lucky (:

I usually order brown rice at vegetarian stalls because they're cheap when they're supposed to be expensive (you don't find brown rice being cheaper than white rice at supermarkets, do you?), and a lot less oily than fried rice/beehoon etc. And I like the slight crunch when I sink my teeth into the brown rice.

The brown rice here has an added twist - the occasional bits of corn that peaks out of the rice from time to time. I like corn, so I have no complaints.

Eggplant + some veg + spring roll + curry "meat". Forgot the price.

It wasn't me who ate this, but I did kope my friend's spring roll which was the only item that was still hot. I like it, but I don't eat spring roll very often so I can't really comment. As long as it's hot, I'd say that it's decent.

Spinach + kai lan + fried egg. $2++

It is really hard to find someone that cooks spinach well in NTU. I'm not expecting restaurant standards (I love that spinach + century egg dish they serve in Chinese restaurants) but.. this is pretty tough. And tasteless. The other vegetable was naturally tougher and didn't help things at all. The fried egg was well-cooked; the yolk is totally solid. I prefer runny yolk but I guess for hygiene sake they make it totally cooked. It also makes stacking easier.

But I chomped down the meal anyway because I was hungry.

P.S. will someone tell me what's the difference between kai lan and cai xin? I only know that the former is tougher, but I can't see the difference with my eyes!