Letters to my future self

aug 24th - life on a budget

life continues on the edge, today's quest brought me to ang mo kio right after coming off a draft at raffles city (placed 2nd out of 4, imo avengers is a silly format). went over with adrian to the card shop to get some sleeves then off to get some food (for him, i'm supposed to be on diet).

apparently s-11 closed down for renovations, i think. we around abit more until we came to the hawker centre. wondering what to eat, we first got ourselves some seats then walked around somemore. until this stall caught both our eyes.

smacked right in the middle of the hawker centre, the stall looked quite out-of-place, its almost like its 'too modern'. even its signage is quite special, it reads "eMeal @ ang mo kio". impressive word play for just a stall signage. what was more surprising to us was that the rice there sells for 1.90 (curry rice, with choice of curry chicken, fried chicken or fish, comes with curry cabbage and a fried egg). the last time a meal at a hawker centre sells for less then $2 is probably some 5 years++ ago.

both of us ended up ordering a plate each, its self service. then came another surprise, the food is served on disposables. which in other words, they arent wasting any money hiring people to deliver the food to the table nor to wash plates and utensils, just pack and go.

how brilliant. the food's serving was quite good, tastes quite ok. i can already imagine a young man being the brainchild of this idea running a whole chain of such stalls making a hell lot of money. (ok, apparently i heard from my mum there's also 1 stall in clementi near my grandma's place)

i'm impressed.
so much for supposed to be on a diet. then again, its only 1.90. *grins*
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