Nov 4 2008, 09:31 AM
QUOTE(StarGhazzer @ Nov 4 2008, 08:09 AM)
Both? 
But mainly to save money lah.
An average meal outside = 8.90-10.00, not counting places specially catering for students' needs which may be around 6 (but very few)... previously one meal is large enough to eat it twice, but now everything also shrink liao, one meal is only enough for eating it once.
So let's say 1 meal on average is AUD 9
2 meals per day = 18, add in misc stuff we'll say AUD 20
So one month would be 20x30= 600
Even if you only eat 5 days per week, i.e. 20x20 = 400;
plus say you cook during the weekends which may cost 10-15 per weekend = say 15 x4 = 60
Total is still 460
If you cook daily, you'd probably spend approx 20-30 per week for groceries. We'll take 30 assuming that you eat heaps.
30x4 = 120
Add in miscellaneous stuff and I'm being generous here, the cost will still end up less than 200.
These are just for food... simple food of course, assuming that you don't eat exotic stuff.
Do the math. Want to cook or not? I would, and I am now. Somemore, there ain't many places that you can eat every day without feeling bloated or bored. It's not like back in Msia where you can eat zha fan and choose a different dish every day and still have lots of choices by the end of the week.
If anyone can't cook, it's time to learn now... Cooking simple meals ain't that difficult... The TV just finished showing Jamie Oliver's Ministry of Food, which shows how he tries to influence an entire town to cook their own meals instead of eating greasy chips every day. You just need to take the first step, and it'll come naturally. Easiest skill to learn? Try stir fry... a hot pan, hot oil, quick hand movements and you can cook almost anything... meat, vege, rice, mihun, mee... oh yeah. But don't try to "stir fry" fish unless you want to scrape the mess off your pan... I did it the first time 
You can only deep fry fish, not stir fry.
For me, cooking is a fun thing to do....... it's the cleaning up that pisses me off haha.
haha.. same la.. cook is fun.. as you can cook it in a creative way.. maybe add A or B to make it tastier.. but maybe sometimes become.. weird? But mainly to save money lah.
An average meal outside = 8.90-10.00, not counting places specially catering for students' needs which may be around 6 (but very few)... previously one meal is large enough to eat it twice, but now everything also shrink liao, one meal is only enough for eating it once.
So let's say 1 meal on average is AUD 9
2 meals per day = 18, add in misc stuff we'll say AUD 20
So one month would be 20x30= 600
Even if you only eat 5 days per week, i.e. 20x20 = 400;
plus say you cook during the weekends which may cost 10-15 per weekend = say 15 x4 = 60
Total is still 460
If you cook daily, you'd probably spend approx 20-30 per week for groceries. We'll take 30 assuming that you eat heaps.
30x4 = 120
Add in miscellaneous stuff and I'm being generous here, the cost will still end up less than 200.These are just for food... simple food of course, assuming that you don't eat exotic stuff.
Do the math. Want to cook or not? I would, and I am now. Somemore, there ain't many places that you can eat every day without feeling bloated or bored. It's not like back in Msia where you can eat zha fan and choose a different dish every day and still have lots of choices by the end of the week.
If anyone can't cook, it's time to learn now...
Cooking simple meals ain't that difficult... The TV just finished showing Jamie Oliver's Ministry of Food, which shows how he tries to influence an entire town to cook their own meals instead of eating greasy chips every day. You just need to take the first step, and it'll come naturally. Easiest skill to learn? Try stir fry... a hot pan, hot oil, quick hand movements and you can cook almost anything... meat, vege, rice, mihun, mee... oh yeah. But don't try to "stir fry" fish unless you want to scrape the mess off your pan... I did it the first time You can only deep fry fish, not stir fry.For me, cooking is a fun thing to do....... it's the cleaning up that pisses me off haha.
but luckily my housemate will help me wash.. i cook they wash..
i don't think aussie there is like that rite?? as all of us will be staying in single room..
QUOTE(bhypp @ Nov 4 2008, 09:21 AM)
hey KV...cook with gf means....they do all the cleanup!!! and all the preparations.....u just play play with the wok...and also when it comes to eating u can have 95% of their portion....they always on diet mar.... 
anyway panda-man.....i think that changi place is not that good la...pretty average only....but then again its not too expensive and its very nearby....
if dun feel like cooking can always buy those microwavable dinner from supermarket....just put into microwave n voila! dinner! from weightwatchers n etc summore.....so wont make u fat (so to speak la)
ahh my grovcries usually exceed A$30 per week leh! damn need to cut down on my junk food liao......zzZZ......yea eat out is never cheap....A$9 is just the quite average cafe's and stuff already like pretty basic stuff.....if u wanna go some proper dining restaurant....it would be like $15-30......haih.....thats why till today my best fren is still indomie.....sedap lagi jimat!
Added on November 4, 2008, 9:28 amso far the best msian food i had was from the ipoh garden restaurant at lygon street...quite a dodgy place.....like its stuck in the 80s like that....but pretty good food i must say......since its kinda hard to get true msian taste as most places nowadays serve more mainland style chinese food...
there is this msian place in clayton oso....forgot the name....somewhere near monash uni.....forgot its name...its hainanese chicken rice pretty authentic too
not really.. i cook.. my deardear oso cook.. but hor.. he eat a bit only.. anyway panda-man.....i think that changi place is not that good la...pretty average only....but then again its not too expensive and its very nearby....
if dun feel like cooking can always buy those microwavable dinner from supermarket....just put into microwave n voila! dinner! from weightwatchers n etc summore.....so wont make u fat (so to speak la)
ahh my grovcries usually exceed A$30 per week leh! damn need to cut down on my junk food liao......zzZZ......yea eat out is never cheap....A$9 is just the quite average cafe's and stuff already like pretty basic stuff.....if u wanna go some proper dining restaurant....it would be like $15-30......haih.....thats why till today my best fren is still indomie.....sedap lagi jimat!
Added on November 4, 2008, 9:28 amso far the best msian food i had was from the ipoh garden restaurant at lygon street...quite a dodgy place.....like its stuck in the 80s like that....but pretty good food i must say......since its kinda hard to get true msian taste as most places nowadays serve more mainland style chinese food...
there is this msian place in clayton oso....forgot the name....somewhere near monash uni.....forgot its name...its hainanese chicken rice pretty authentic too
and we "scissors, paper, stone" to decide who gonna wash the dishes..
BTW, near berwick there any nice food ar? i might be going there next year..
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just share kitchen & toilet
cook them? 
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