"A classic is something that everybody wants to have read and nobody wants to read." - Mark Twain
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NUS GSS: Food tasting for the temporary canteen at Carpark 16
"Person in charge: Zhao Hanying
Date: Monday, 20 November 2006
Name: Megabites Food Pte Ltd (KRISTON FOOD & BEVERAGE)
Address: SIM HQ
461 Clementi Road
Level 3, Megabites Cafe
S(599491)
Meeting Venue : Office of Estate and Development, Level 2
Meeting Time : 11.30 am to 2.30 pm
People: NUSSU representatives (3 people), One GSS representative (me), the rest officials, etc.
We set out at 11:45 from NUS. In SIM, Mr Tan who is the director of Kriston Food & Beverage presented during the food tasting process. There were chiken rice, several types of noodles, western food, Lasak, spaghetti, pasta, sandwich, fish soup etc. He provided various kinds of food. After tasting, we went back to OED and made appraisement. All admitted his operation in NUS in the future."
God, they really got conned.
I call "Megabites" "Megasucks" since it is without a doubt a leading contender in the "the worst food I've ever tasted" contest. It's bad enough that it looks like a setting of a Chinese funeral, but the food is horrible to boot.
Frigid Girl had spaghetti with cream sauce there and said it tasted like puke (beat that, Bambino's!) And everyone else tells me it sucks, though I don't even have semi-detailed reviews.
To see for myself just how bad it was, I sampled some Mango Pudding and Green Tea Jelly from there. The former was overly sweet (something coming from me), milky to the point of being stomach turning and was sickly smooth, sliding down my throat as rotten tuna might. Meanwhile the latter was bland and not sweet enough. so I tried combining the two, and the whole was greater than the sum of its parts, being almost edible (in the spirit of scientific enquiry, I ate much more than Screwed Up Girl's one spoon).
Meanwhile, I am also told that the stall outside LT10 selling Laksa and Nasi Lemak - someone had the Laksa and said it tasted like plastic. Ironically the stall is run by a Chinese Seafood Restaurant and was proudly displaying a certificate which it had won in its non-Halal food ventures.
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"Minutes of the meeting of GSS and BGS
Board of Graduate Studies (BGS) has meetings every month. BGS invites GSS to bring up and discuss its issues once every semester...
Issue 6: Shuttle bus during school vacation
GSS: The shuttle bus from Gillman Heights to campus is stopped during school vacation. However, there are many students living in Gillman Heights have to come to school during the vacation time.
BGS: Graduate students are mature and do not have to depend on shuttle bus service."