I was there, too
I THINK the card they were toking about is the one where u have to fill in the form (in the Read & Return blue book) and send it back to them



U r fr Sheffield, rite? Do psychology students usually sell their textbooks? I mean, do the final yr students sell their 2nd yr books?

Yup, those Malaysian made spices are worth more than dry noodles or other common asian ingredients..

Examples:

1) True Malaysian raw 'Belacan' <-- Seriously! A must have! Smuggle it if you have too!

2) Real 'Cencaluk' <-- This is good stuff! You can't get this from anywhere! Heck, I 'll pay US20.00 a bottle if I can find it. Don't go for the look-alike imitation shrimp paste from Indonesia or Vietnam or Thailand, they taste awful!

3) Your mom's secret recipes - if you've never cook a dish before, LEARN it now before you leave!

This post has been edited by netfan: Aug 29 2006, 09:33 AM

Hohoho.. luckily i'm not a big fan of belance or cencaluk.
However, try to bring some spices over to UK!! I do love to eat spicy food!! Packet ones! There are asian stores here but I just think it's kinda expensive to buy here. You can buy quite a lot frm Malaysia!
For instant noodles, plz bring at least one packet of maggie mee or two.

Instant noodles here are quite cheap (30p, 50p, 70p) - dun convert them
But just bring one packet in case u dun get used to UK food. Can still eat maggie hehe for a few times.

Bring some Ho Yan ho (herbs drink) as usually there'll be a lot of ppl coughing at the beginning of new sem. You might get cold easily too especially when winter is coming!! U may not get fever, but u will just cough with phlegms only. That's terrible.

i dunno what's wif NX2d card. For Itnernational student card, so far i never use it before in UK. Cause you can apply for National Union student card (www.nusonline.co.uk). However, once you come back to malaysia, you can show the international student card to prove that u r a student studying overseas instead of showing ur student ID from ur university. (use it if u want to buy movie tickets)

You're referring to the NX2 card, issued by the National Express (think Transnasional etc, but with up to date and clean and on-time coaches). It gives you up to 33% discount on the National Express coaches. It has nothing to do with your university.

Personally I just use my Young Person's Railcard and move around by train.

On what else you can bring, you can bring some Pill Chi Kit (those for stomachache ones because they come in pretty handy when you need'em).

There are those extremely cheap instant noodles like Morrisons or Tesco branded instant noodles, 8p a pack. Also, you can consider bringing some packed herbs or soups like those bak kut teh or some gingseng chicken soup and etc

If want buy handphone, buy online and most probably you get better deals. Some sites give good offers.

But it'll be a lot cheaper by bus right?

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You're referring to the NX2 card, issued by the National Express (think Transnasional etc, but with up to date and clean and on-time coaches). It gives you up to 33% discount on the National Express coaches. It has nothing to do with your university.

Personally I just use my Young Person's Railcard and move around by train.

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But it'll be a lot cheaper by bus right?

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Yes it'll be alot cheaper but depending on where you are going the journey could take a very long time. In Malaysia, our coaches are definitely alot faster. For eg, a 4hr coach journey in Malaysia could take up to 8-9hrs or more in the UK because of the countless stops they make and the waiting and changing of coaches involved.

The NX2 card for me is useless because most of the times it only give you up to 10-15% off. There are plenty of National Express promotional codes floating around that give you 10-20% off so I dont bother with the NX2 card. A railcard can save you alot more and is more useful imho.

since I stay in Birmingham, i would never take a coach to Scotland!!! It takes you 9 - 10 hours to go there!!!
In UK, you will always get cheaper price if you book EARLY!! (budget airlines)
So piece of advice, never do things last minute!!!
There are lots of coaches like megabus or nationalexpress that go to London for �1 only but you really need to book early to do that.

Don't forget to bring a small bottle (500ml) of thick soy sauce (thick yet black in colour, if you know which one it is) or else your bak kut teh will be flat white . I brought that and it quite useful.

Get bring chinese mushrooms too. My ex-flatmates dunno didn't know there's such mushroom till they saw it when I was cooking.

This post has been edited by goliath: Aug 30 2006, 04:32 PM

Soy sauce? Isn't it available there? I know it will probably be a little more expensive, but at least I can save luggage space

I think he mentioned those thick and sweet dark soy sauce. I can't really find them here though they have dark soy sauce and light soy sauce.

Not those ordinary soy sauce. Thick ones. The one they used to fry hokkien mee or fried kuey teow.

As for normal soy sauce, sure you could get it in UK. But some brands taste weird. Some taste just fine.

Yeap. You're right.

The closest I can find is the BlueDragon Sweet Soy Sauce, that's as close I can get.

You all haven't looked hard enough. Look for thick caramel sauce.

add on: You can also purchase dried Chinese mushrooms from some shops (at the very least, London's Chinatown)

This post has been edited by elb: Sep 1 2006, 06:40 AM

If you are looking for thick dark soy sauce, they have it in UK.

And if you are looking for the sweet dark soy sauce, they have it in UK as well, the brand is ABC kecap manis, its made in indonesia i think.

there're alot of msian made kicap manis available in the UK. why get indonesian ones? hahhaa. the most common ones i bought are habhal's kicap kipas udang and adabi's kicap manis. it's about 99p - 1.25 in london, and 70p - 99p outside.

support barangan buatan msia!

Hai what for buy so many sauces to UK? Try to eat some of the UK food.. hahaha, but seriously when you study here, sometimes you dun even have time to cook. sometimes u dun feel like cooking especially during winter.
You felt like sleeping more than cooking.

You're right, I'm not really the cooking type.
Just wondering how does frozen dinners taste like?

Dont' taste them, eat them to fill up your stomach, that's it. Besides, microwave food isn't that healthy as well, even if it's just some simple dish, eat fresh food like vege and stuff.

Also, microwave food is kinda expensive as well, if you wanna save on your food, cooking yourself is one of the best choices around.

*Will go hunt for some Malaysian stuff at China Town tomorrow.