Club 30's "Kill the Boredom Demon" Jive Pad, 99th Edition

• elindra

  17 Oct 08, 11:21

  Originally posted by cassie:

  and now, there's pretty much nothing we can eat without killing ourselves

  http://www.thestar.com.my/news/story.asp?file=/2008/10/17/nation/2305367&sec=nation

  
  Should I be happy I hardly snack on biscuits >.<

  Very jialet sia

  I already never touch all the China products I love >.<"

• udontknowme

  17 Oct 08, 11:27

  Originally posted by cassie:

  
  what have you been chowing down so far? you can't get ready meals in the super marts? a bit exp but...

  let's just say....with the exception of the odd bit of canned tuna once ina while, my diet is more veg friendly than when fatum was supposed to be going veggie....

  and errr....no ready made meals lah. cant afford >.<

  haha.

   

• elindra

  17 Oct 08, 11:27

  Wah someone wants to sell his pair of Platinum Snakeheads for $780 -_-"

• av98m

  17 Oct 08, 11:28

  I think everyone is going to lose some weight due to avoidance of processed food products from China.

   

  with the possible exception of the LF

• cassie

  17 Oct 08, 11:30

  Originally posted by udontknowme:

  let's just say....with the exception of the odd bit of canned tuna once ina while, my diet is more veg friendly than when fatum was supposed to be going veggie....

  and errr....no ready made meals lah. cant afford >.<

  haha.

   

  
  don't worry. i survived on canned tuna too when i was in UK. and no, no ready meals either. canned tuna, fish, chicken, brocolli, carrots with spaghetti etc.  you can dump pasta sauce on it - that's not too exp.

• cassie

  17 Oct 08, 11:31

  Originally posted by av98m:

  I think everyone is going to lose some weight due to avoidance of processed food products from China.

   

  with the possible exception of the LF

  
  the prob is even if you don't get made in china products, who knows where the US/European producers source for their ingridients.

• elindra

  17 Oct 08, 11:31

  Originally posted by av98m:

  I think everyone is going to lose some weight due to avoidance of processed food products from China.

   

  with the possible exception of the LF

  
  I miss the braised pig trotters a lot leh

  My bee hoon is no longer the same :(

   

  I also envy my parents

  KNS just last week they went to Bintan. Now they are flying off tomorrow to Taiwan

   

• udontknowme

  17 Oct 08, 11:32

  Originally posted by av98m:

  I think everyone is going to lose some weight due to avoidance of processed food products from China.

   

  with the possible exception of the LF

  i have cans of various ma ling products under my bed!!!! muahahahhahahahaa!!!!~

  and i have zero intentions of throwing them out....

  cant bear to eat them though cos i only have 1-2 cans of each >.<

• InnoHippo

  17 Oct 08, 11:32

  Originally posted by elindra:

  Wah someone wants to sell his pair of Platinum Snakeheads for $780 -_-"

  buy high ..... sell higher .....

   

• elindra

  17 Oct 08, 11:33

  Originally posted by InnoHippo:

  buy high ..... sell higher .....

   

  
  Only if the fish is rare la than got chance

  If not it's usually at cost or lower

• udontknowme

  17 Oct 08, 11:34

  Originally posted by cassie:

  
  don't worry. i survived on canned tuna too when i was in UK. and no, no ready meals either. canned tuna, fish, chicken, brocolli, carrots with spaghetti etc.  you can dump pasta sauce on it - that's not too exp.

  oh...i will survive.....but i don't get a wide variety of foods here. plus the kitchen is PUNY. the moment i step in, i just don't feel like cooking anymore....haha

  i dont even buy pasta sauce >.< i just cook the tomatoes with random veggies, boil the pasta and dump the vegs on top. haha

  i dont ever remember being this 'healthy' ever in my whole entire life.....=P

• av98m

  17 Oct 08, 11:35

  Originally posted by udontknowme:

  i have cans of various ma ling products under my bed!!!! muahahahhahahahaa!!!!~

  and i have zero intentions of throwing them out....

  cant bear to eat them though cos i only have 1-2 cans of each >.<

  
  those are like highly sought after collector's items now

• av98m

  17 Oct 08, 11:36

  Originally posted by cassie:

  
  the prob is even if you don't get made in china products, who knows where the US/European producers source for their ingridients.

  
  so its true. we're all doomed.

• elindra

  17 Oct 08, 11:36

  I want my bee hoon with a can of pork trotters with lots of spring onions

  *sigh*

  That was our lazy Sunday afternoon lunch in the past

  It's easy to cook and delicious

• elindra

  17 Oct 08, 11:37

  Oh ya and I wanna complain about the NTUC at my place

  KNS THEY DON'T SELL SMOKED SALMON THERE ANYMORE!!!!!!!

• av98m

  17 Oct 08, 11:37

  I know someone who has to go to China for work soon. He's never been there. And now he's petrified.

• cassie

  17 Oct 08, 11:38

  Originally posted by udontknowme:

  oh...i will survive.....but i don't get a wide variety of foods here. plus the kitchen is PUNY. the moment i step in, i just don't feel like cooking anymore....haha

  i dont even buy pasta sauce >.< i just cook the tomatoes with random veggies, boil the pasta and dump the vegs on top. haha

  i dont ever remember being this 'healthy' ever in my whole entire life.....=P

  
  er that's my dinner diet these days! noodles, carrots and turnips, wheat "fishcake" sans sauce which AV commented that it's suicidal.

• InnoHippo

  17 Oct 08, 11:38

  Originally posted by elindra:

  I want my bee hoon with a can of pork trotters with lots of spring onions

  *sigh*

  That was our lazy Sunday afternoon lunch in the past

  It's easy to cook and delicious

  u are making hippo hungry

   

• elindra

  17 Oct 08, 11:39

  Originally posted by av98m:

  I know someone who has to go to China for work soon. He's never been there. And now he's petrified.

  
  Well he can buy imported foodstuff from the supermarkets

  It's apparently very popular there

  But expect to pay higher prices than Singapore

• elindra

  17 Oct 08, 11:40

  Originally posted by cassie:

  
  er that's my dinner diet these days! noodles, carrots and turnips, wheat "fishcake" sans sauce which AV commented that it's suicidal.

  
  Well it's healthy but I don't think I can live like that

  I like noodles with an egg at least

   

• udontknowme

  17 Oct 08, 11:40

  oohhh... CASSIE!!

  how do you cook your turnips???

  i didnt buy them the last time i saw them cos i didnt really know what to do with them >.<

  i read that if u don't cook them properly, they'll stink too..??

• av98m

  17 Oct 08, 11:40

  Originally posted by cassie:

  
  er that's my dinner diet these days! noodles, carrots and turnips, wheat "fishcake" sans sauce which AV commented that it's suicidal.

  
  and you wonder why you keep losing weight

• elindra

  17 Oct 08, 11:41

  I like raw turnips in salads

  They are nice and crunchy and mild tasting

• udontknowme

  17 Oct 08, 11:41

  Originally posted by elindra:

  I want my bee hoon with a can of pork trotters with lots of spring onions

  *sigh*

  That was our lazy Sunday afternoon lunch in the past

  It's easy to cook and delicious

  i tried looking for ma liang pork trotters. but couldnt find any >.<

  i found the 5 spice pork cubes, some sliced pork thing and erm...cant remember what else. but NO trotters!!! >.< i had wanted to get some becos....i remembered u always talked abt it =P

• av98m

  17 Oct 08, 11:42

  Originally posted by elindra:

  
  Well he can buy imported foodstuff from the supermarkets

  It's apparently very popular there

  But expect to pay higher prices than Singapore

  
  I have fond memories of eating everything in sight in guangzhou and shenzhen. That was way before this food scare, of course.