The food that I will miss most in NUS

and so... 4 years of student career has come to an end... two things I will miss for sure... not the lectures or tutorials... but the mugging that I had with my friends. Studying, eating, laughing, drowning ourselves of Kopi-O 'gao' in the central library, and the Indonesian Pahang Chicken Skewers.

Snippets of the past 4 years, 8 semesters, 8 studying week...

Celery Sandwiches... hilarious act by dear CH

Our all time favourite exam sweet.. lol

Ham and cheese sandwiches

Lots of sinful stuffs... lol...

Bentos made by my gf... lovely

Lots of tuna to makes lots of tuna sandwiches

Can you tell our creativeness from here? Eat 1 slice of banana bread and 1 slice of chocolate bread together and you get chocolate banana bread! haha


and my favorite food in NUS...


Chicken skewers from Indonesian Pahang Stall, Engineering Canteen


Bye NUS and all the best to myself for the next phase! =)

Indonesian Panggang Set @ NUS Engine Canteen

Campus Yummy Hunt many many month ago... hunted this stall in NUS engine canteen

Picture taken from http://singapuradailyphoto.blogspot.com

Indonesian Panggang @ $2.60

This is my first time trying in this semester! and... the kebab is still as nice, the chilli is still as fiery and hot, the curry veggies is still so ever tasty! At $2.60, who says good and cheap food does not exist!?

But sadly, i returned a few days later, the kebab was sold out. So I had the grilled chicken set but the chicken was terrible. It was salty and dry... omg... did they chicken like drown in a pool of salt water and then suffered from 3rd degrees burn???

I thought this was an isolated case, but a few days later after that, my friend again had the grilled chicken set due to the kebab being sold out again... and to my disappointment... the grilled chicken was as bad...

Hopefully this is again... another isolated case.

But many isolated cases = consistency = constantly bad. lol

nah... giving them another chance :)

Personal Steamboat @ Arts

When you are back in school during the weekends, and the only stall available is this hardworking China Si Chuan Stall. You are left with no choice but this.

Si Chuan Steamboat @ only $5. Available at NUS Arts Canteen after 4pm.

Wanton Mee with xtra meat + meat

I love to eat in school after working out in the gym, cos I can have a nice bowl high protein-packed meal at a very low price. This is Wanton mee with extra chicken meat (that was supposed to go along with Ipoh Horfun)

This Wanton mee sold at Yusof Ishak House cost only $1.80, for a big big bowl of mee... The mee is so much that I can only finish like a quarter of it, and for just addition 50cents, i get a big handful of extra chicken meat added to the wanton mee that comes along with a generous handful of Charsiew and 3 big and meaty wantons...

carnivorous me...

Steamboat @ The Deck (NUS)

Steamboat set @ only $5

The potion is really very big... too big for one person to finish actually... so 5 of us actually shared 3 of the above set... Just to mention a few ingredients - Bean curd, Vermicelli, Fish slices, Chicken Slices, Seaweed, Prawns, Crab Stick, Meat balls, Hot Dogs, Cabbages, and many other assortment of veggies. The soup base is clear soup, but they also have Ma La (Spicy) soup base.

To make our dinner more interesting... another (Clockwise from Top Left) - 10 Steamed Dumplings, Pickled Peanuts which was finished by me... and Bean Curd Skin.

The Famous NUS "Uncle Soup"

The reason why i say its famous is because the queue is so damn long during lunch hour in Engin Canteen... And its not bad la... for canteen food its considered cheap and good. there was once i queued ur Thrice for this! First time... i queued up... but the Q was jus too long.. and when i get nearer, i realised i ended up at the sucky jap stall... so i re-q... 2nd time... ended up at the sucky stall again... and finally third time... i managed to get it! grrr...

The pride of engin canteen!

Tom Yam Seafood Soup @ $2.50

Bak Kut Teh @ $3.00

p/s: soup does not comes along with seaweed... it was "DIY"...

NUS Arts Canteen - The Deck

Have been so busy with sch work this whole week that i hardly have time to go out for a meal... But in NUS there's also "edible" food. You want Chinese Food? There are many Chinese stalls catered to the different China students - Singapore Chinese food in every canteen, Beijing Chinese food at SRC, Another China chinese stall at Yusof Ishak House and Si Chuan Chinese Food at Arts Canteen, which im going to blog about.

Usually on weekdays, the queue for this stall is extremely long. But i was there on Saturday, so without much effort i get to try something from this stall. I supposed the food is very authetic in terms of its "Sichuan-ness" since the cooks and stall owners are speak very fluent and zai cheena chinese.

担担面 Dan dan Noodles

Ths is a classic dish of Sichuan origin which consists of spicy ground peanut and sesame sauce drizzled over noodles, and its taste is usually very garlicky, and often served with cold sliced cucumbers and beansprouts. Theres a colder version to this known as (kind of duh) cold noodles or 凉面, remember its 凉 and not 冷! else the chinese guy at the stall will be laughing away at your chinese...

The noodles are very chewy, but finishing one bowl of it can be rather tedious as the amount of noodles (carbs warning!) they serve is very generous. It will be better if theres more minced meat and spicier...

宫保鸡丁(Kung Pao (pow!) chicken)

A bit of history to this dish. The dish is named after Ding Baozhen in the Qing Dynasty era. He was the head Shandong province and later as governor of Sichuan province, with his title: Gōng Bǎo (宮保). And thats how the name of this dish came about!

The chicken pieces are braised in rice wine, dry whole chillis, bean paste and red vinegar, and accompanied by carrot slices, spring onion batons and roast peanuts. It is smoky, barbequey and sweet. Last time it used to be spicer, but now i cannot really taste the spiciness anymore.

Unlike those fake Guan Bao which you find in many zi char stall, its taste is very different. Its not just spicy diced chicken, you can taste the slight tinge of wine and spiciness from the sichuan chilli. And when you bite on the roasted peanuts together with the diced chicken and a mouth of rice..... yummz....

in my 3 years there, This is only my 2nd time trying this! Because its either always sold out by the time i am there, or its not available on that day!