SAF Food Disappointing...Unhealthy n Not NUtritious
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before i ORD we are having Super Cup noodle. curry favour is the top favourite. tom yam and prawn favour are always left over.Originally posted by Marco_Simone:Anyway,how the night snack nowadays? Still having buns?
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haha what we ate ah?sometimes we also do not know cos the food come in a lump of unrecognized stuff,worst when it is doused with curry,lol the curry then was thick thick dark brown color,look something like sai.You take alook also dunwan to eat liao.Food come with extra stuff like sand cos not washed properly.Generally it is 1 meat,2 vege,most of the time,it is in oily version too.Breakfast then best was lor mai kai,lol in fact most people only eat lor mai kai and did not go for the other breakfast items,(hmm eg uncooked yellow noodles doused with some resemble of a soup,cold and hard yam cake,plain white bread with butter or jam).Night snack best was recycled breakfast white bread with butter or jam,yes lol we get stuff that is left uneaten from somewhere b4,other times we just get the yellow sponge cake)Originally posted by borntolive:well ok i understand the condition in the past, may i know wad u guys eat? well its not true that our generation cant endure hardship. I myself has been eating plain whole grain bread+eggs+milk for breakfast everyday including weekends n in camp i bring my own bread+milk. for meals i feel cant be eaten i eat oatmeals n milk or bread n milk. i have been doing this for past 6 mths. i m not trying to show off how healthy i am or wadever u guys might think off, i just feel that its wrong to accuse us of being too soft..
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I heard from kakis that the lor mai kai they had were usually half frozen.
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Food can be a morale booster as well and vice versa.Out of point though
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speaking of saf food, is it true the food appraisal thing is linked to the cooks year end bonus?
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wowOriginally posted by GenX:haha what we ate ah?sometimes we also do not know cos the food come in a lump of unrecognized stuff,worst when it is doused with curry,lol the curry then was thick thick dark brown color,look something like sai.You take alook also dunwan to eat liao.Food come with extra stuff like sand cos not washed properly.Generally it is 1 meat,2 vege,most of the time,it is in oily version too.Breakfast then best was lor mai kai,lol in fact most people only eat lor mai kai and did not go for the other breakfast items,(hmm eg uncooked yellow noodles doused with some resemble of a soup,cold and hard yam cake,plain white bread with butter or jam).Night snack best was recycled breakfast white bread with butter or jam,yes lol we get stuff that is left uneaten from somewhere b4,other times we just get the yellow sponge cake)
lots of hardship in yr times, but managed to go through this phase wad 
well yr condition was much worse than now thought the problem of oil-soaked meat n vege still exist but we have a problem u guys never faced that is 80% of our food is fried.
in fact i believe yr geneation of meals may be a bit healthier
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milk u can forget about it.. too expensiveOriginally posted by Hidden^OnE:1 thing I really have problem with is cordial.
Why serve us colored sugar water? Milk or soya milk would be so much better. Anytime, anyday.
in bmt we do have soya milk on rare occasions n everybody is rushing for it n some lucky ones get a second cup.
for me in bmt, a cup of milo taste heavenly
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PAI SAYOriginally posted by freakass:Hey uncultured wild boar, did you read before you post? I am not complaining about the food... In fact I am against those who are complaining about the cookhouse food..
Well nevermind, i dont blame you becos your intellectual ability is rock bottom.
And please watch your language. i just happen to use quote to post my comments.Come on im not against u...dun get me wrong man.sry ok. 
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Originally posted by Hidden^OnE:
Anyway i agree to what he says..That day was @ navy open hse..on e way back walkin 2 take e shuttle bus, there's actually beverages provided at the cookhouse area..So i took and drank and asked my frens whats tt..haha..cos its a tastless yellow sugar syrup..then my guy frens was sayin its pineapple cordial like what they're drinkin in camp nw!!!
1 thing I really have problem with is cordial.
Why serve us colored sugar water? Milk or soya milk would be so much better. Anytime, anyday.
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when I was serving NSF we still have unit cooks for both muslim and non muslim. When we pull guard duty the unit cooks always have something special for guards. I know that the cooks always use army sock to filter coffee for the duty BOS and Officier. So i figure with SFI that is off limit.Originally posted by Eiizumi:No I dun think so.
But I think the current cooks might be sick of soldiers complains of this thing not nice, that thing not nice.. Well, you can't please everyone.
Maybe soldier should have some days of individual unit cooks who cooks plain food, not really not nice food (with the canteen closed) to make soldiers relised that sometimes, cookhouse food is better than individual unit cooks' food.
I had one in my training camp in Taiwan in 2005. Wah piang eh. For the first time, I prefer some lousy combat rations, than live rations cooked by reservist unit cooks.
From then on, I learn to appreciate cookhouse food done by SFI, or NTUC Foodfare.
I also wonder in time of war how does SFI going to continue to support the stomach of the SAF?
In ROC one of the chanllenge was to get hala chicken and they end up live chicken send by local ma lao. I don't know how the malay soldier kill the chicken.
i found out there are chocolate hard tag when I was in ROC.
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I really agree about the cordial part. I am really sick of it liao. phucking hell. Can't they like throw in soyabean or even gatorade once in a while.
And the cookhouse...honestly for $5.50, the taste can't even compare with a normal kopitiam $2 zhap chye perng lah. KNN.
And to all the old birds-yah yah the food sucked worse during your time we all know that. You all compare with us, we compare with new recruits, will never end lah. -
Hey, if you are still in NSC, try to go SMM for lunch. Not sure if you could sneak out, but I'm sure you have your ways.Originally posted by Hellraiza:I really agree about the cordial part. I am really sick of it liao. phucking hell. Can't they like throw in soyabean or even gatorade once in a while.
And the cookhouse...honestly for $5.50, the taste can't even compare with a normal kopitiam $2 zhap chye perng lah. KNN.
And to all the old birds-yah yah the food sucked worse during your time we all know that. You all compare with us, we compare with new recruits, will never end lah.
SMM's cookhouse menu is far better than the old 6DIV cookhouse. -
after seeing responses to this thread I think someone have to write a book Guide to Eating your Way thru SAF.....
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So do we still long for the type of food that were used to be prepared by NSF cooks back in the days of 1996 or food by SFI from 1996 till now?
Me only know that in the early days when SFI won the catering contract from MINDEF, there were two grades of food prepared, one valued at $5.50 and another at $6 per meal, which were better and more decent... Nightsnacks are at $2.80 which SHI would probably make the most money out of it...
Now there's only one grade of food prepared at $4.96 per meal and nightsnack still stands at $2.80... -
I dun noe about the current SAF food that many of you guys have tasted. But to me, it sounded pretty tasty and good, as compared to my time in the '70s.
Those times ...them cooks were NS enlistees.....who dun qualify for other vocations. They are mostly pai kias...... the one who toss numbers about when they dun like your asking why the food is so and so. And u noe wat....they do the cooking for us. Chief cook was a regular, Staff sargent or WOs.
You can find worms, sand, in the vegetables, small sand pebbles in them rice, rice have the persistant light yellowish tinge and it smells too, for not being washed properly or not washed at all. Fish have the rotten kinda smell and taste too!! They gave lots of meat, vegetables, fish and fruits for lunch and dinner. Them cooks just dump em onto your tray. Take extras no problem, but throw away...kena take extra guard duty or worse DB!! Duty BOS or COS always patrol at the rubbish point to catch anyone throwing food....only bones and unedible stuff can be thrown.....
Breakfast may be plain stale bread, yes stale, you can smell em..hahaha.... sometimes plain tastless bee hoon. And yes.....half boiled eggs!!!....I luv em...can take as many as you want...but have to finish what you take...no wasting of food! Coffee, tea? not too bad though
Night snack, mostly red bean, green bean soup....Man I like it ...it is so so thick with so many beans in it!!!!!
During my time, the above can be considered as food from heaven!
That said, dun noe why NSF guys these days still wanna complain about army food.
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hmmm it may taste bad but i think yr time the food has better nutrition .U said they provide half boil eggs? They gave lots of meat, vegetables, fish and fruits for lunch and dinner? And u can take as much as u can? How are they usuually cooked?Originally posted by FireAndHell:I dun noe about the current SAF food that many of you guys have tasted. But to me, it sounded pretty tasty and good, as compared to my time in the '70s.
Those times ...them cooks were NS enlistees.....who dun qualify for other vocations. They are mostly pai kias...... the one who toss numbers about when they dun like your asking why the food is so and so. And u noe wat....they do the cooking for us. Chief cook was a regular, Staff sargent or WOs.
You can find worms, sand, in the vegetables, small sand pebbles in them rice, rice have the persistant light yellowish tinge and it smells too, for not being washed properly or not washed at all. Fish have the rotten kinda smell and taste too!! They gave lots of meat, vegetables, fish and fruits for lunch and dinner. Them cooks just dump em onto your tray. Take extras no problem, but throw away...kena take extra guard duty or worse DB!! Duty BOS or COS always patrol at the rubbish point to catch anyone throwing food....only bones and unedible stuff can be thrown.....
Breakfast may be plain stale bread, yes stale, you can smell em..hahaha.... sometimes plain tastless bee hoon. And yes.....half boiled eggs!!!....I luv em...can take as many as you want...but have to finish what you take...no wasting of food! Coffee, tea? not too bad though
Night snack, mostly red bean, green bean soup....Man I like it ...it is so so thick with so many beans in it!!!!!
During my time, the above can be considered as food from heaven!
That said, dun noe why NSF guys these days still wanna complain about army food. -
AFAIK, they are issued for duty personal and late nite exceciseOriginally posted by borntolive:leme see buns, baos, pineapple tarts, cakes, lor mai kai, friend noodles, bread with thick jam, doughnuts. well should satisfy the tastebuds of many but imagine eating this before u sleep those who knows a thing about health will know -
---------------------------------------------------Originally posted by borntolive:hmmm it may taste bad but i think yr time the food has better nutrition .U said they provide half boil eggs? They gave lots of meat, vegetables, fish and fruits for lunch and dinner? And u can take as much as u can? How are they usuually cooked?
they cook em in huge pots.....like you see done in Malay weddings.... yeah, half boiled eggs for breakfast!! and yeah....sometimes...hard boiled eggs too!! But these are not so popular, difficult to swallow though.
We queue with our mess trays, and these cooks just dump food, rice, soup and fruits onto your tray. Want more, just ask em and you get your tray laden with food like a small hill...hahahah! -
they have lots of big shots there so of course food is better.Originally posted by LazerLordz:SMM's cookhouse menu is far better than the old 6DIV cookhouse.