Peanut Ice Kachang

This is no ordinary ice kachang - it's not normal ice kachang with crushed peanut.
It's peanut sauce and milk and crushed peanuts. The peanut sauce looks like peanut butter at first, but its actually not so viscous - it's like molten peanut butter, and the consistency is like condensed milk. It's not as creamy and buttery as peanut butter either - actually, it's like peanut flavoured condensed milk... It's really nice with the evaporated milk inside, and sweet peanut butter outside, and at the bottom, there's the usualy ice kachang stuff (jelly, attap chee, chin chow jelly, red bean and nata de coco). Even better, since its not multicoloured, you won't get this swampy green-grey mix after everything melts. I supposed you get something like a peanut milkshake when everything melts.
Peanut Ice Kachang
$2.20 from NUH Kopitiam Dessert Store

You also can get Peanut Ice Kachang with corn for the same price I think

Mango Milk Ice

Mango Milk Ice - it's ice with evaporated milk, mango puree and mango chunks, topped with condensed milk. The standard varies, probably following mango season - most of the time it's ok but sometimes the mango is very hard and pale and sour - or when the mango is over-ripe and bit soggy and a bit ethanol-smelling then it sucks. So must check before you buy it - can go and peer through the glass and look at the mango first.

When the ice melts and the mango puree mixes with the milk, it's like eating mango milk shake with chunks of mango, nice and yummy especially on a hot hot hot day and after the sauna wards.

I think it's about $2 from Kopitiam NUH, SGH also has but then the woman there refused to put mango puree i think, so it tasted terrible. They also have it in Strawberry, but I think the mango is better.

Annalisa's Mango Milk Ice Song (to the tune of Jingle Bell Rock)

Mango milk ice is very nice,
It's sweet and it's milky, and it fills up your tummy,
When you need glucose, it's what you will eat,
It's even better than Haribo Sweets.

ok she's gg to slap me now (if she were here, but she isn't)

Kopitiam - Chee Cheong Fun

Went to Kopitiam for a 1030am snack cos fish and I were very hungry (fish was greedy). So we went to eat breakfast before our respi lecture - and we met the 'slack half' of our CG in the Kopitiam too.

I got Chee Cheong Fun from the snacks stall and then I realised that ppl actually didn't know that the chee cheong fun existed. And it's a blog-worthy dish too! So I'm now blogging to make known that Kopitiam has Hand-Made Chee Cheog Fun - and it's freshly made when you order it.The skin is smooth and though not as thin as those dim sum restaurants, it's much softer and thinner than the pre-made kind. They have this rectangle steamer thing, and they'll place a wet muselin towel over it and pour the flour mix inside, then put in either chicken, mushroom, prawn or charsiew (can choose 2).
I like mine with chicken and mushroom. Mushroom and charsiew tastes off. So does mushroom and prawn. Next time i shall try the charsiew.
Plain chee cheong fun costs $2 and the ones with filling cost $2.50.
It takes some time to steam so don't order this if you're rushing. Instead, try the currypuff (according to fish) it 'tastes like Old Chang Kee minus the egg' but I've never tried it before, though it looks quite solid.

NUH Kopitiam Snacks Stall

Fruit Tree just came out with a new drink (maybe not so recently but I just saw it) it's Cranberry Pomegranate and Apple Juice. It has no sugar added (good cos I think the normal juices are too sweet and taste like syrup). It's not sour, and tastes like a queer mix of juices (I've never tasted pomegranate before). It's $1.10 from 7-11 but i'm sure that other places also sell it.

School Food

KopitiamI don't know how people can eat at the same place for months. I'll get so bored out of my mind. I'm so bored that I can't even post anything good.

The med student interview here should be something like this:
Interviewer: Do you like to eat at Kopitiam?
Prospective Student: er... not really?
Interviewer: Fail! Cos for your student life and nearly the rest of your life you will be eating at KOPITIAM! SGH Kopitiam, NUH Kopitiam, TTSH Kopitiam (X2)...
Once we went out to eat lunch to get away from NUH Kopitiam, and then fish suggested eating at GhimMoh. But then it was under renovation. So nevermind, we decided to eat at the nearby coffeeshop, but to our horror, when we got there and peered under the shade that was hiding the signboard, it was another Kopitiam! I just finished 6 wks of Kopitiam in SGH, then now I have another 16 weeks of NUH Kopitiam.

Kopitiam isn't that bad - the food standard is average (my mum loves eating at Kopitiam), variety is good, clean and hygenic, but if you have to eat it day in day out - urgh! In fact, they're so considerate to staff and students that our trusty kopitiam card gives us not 5% but a whooping 20% off. I don't think other places bother about welfare. And they're so strategically placed (nearest eating place cos we're lazy to walk) and most of all, brightly lit (unlike dimly lit places like the SGH staff canteen) and aircon-ed (the aircon is strong enough so it isn't stuffy) so we inevitably end up there.

The NUH Kopitiam has relly good chee cheong fun, it's hand made on the spot and about the restaurant standard kind - I shall save it for another post.

On Friday, Anna and fish and I decided to eat the most unhealthy dish in the entire Kopitiam - Indian Rojak. Mexicans have refried beans. This is deep fried and re-deep fried. We were so happy selecting our rojak and it looked really little on the tray (before chopping up) that we didn't realise that we were taking too much. What had previously managed to fit comfortably( with space to spare) on one tray could now fit into 2 piles.Yup, it's shared amongst 3 people. Overkill. I'm sure if I took my blood after that and let it settle there'll be a layer of oil on top (according to Benny Tan's pharmacology lecture on cholesterol and lipids). I think it'll be quite interesting to see :D

Btw, it costs about $13 but please don't eat so much Indian Rojak especially if it's Monday and there's lectures after that cos you'll feel so full and nua and cannot stay awake.

I wonder if the upcoming Khoo Teck Puat Hospital will have Kopitiam?

Coffee Grounds
This is one of the rarest days ever - fish and I were so bored that we actually went to eat at Coffee Grounds, which we have been avoiding since like M1. I think I've eaten here a grand total of 4 times since M1.

Maybe it's just the name - you shouldn't name something "Coffee Grounds" especially with med ppl around. (Coffee Grounds refers to a type of vomit when the patient has bleeding in the gastrointestinal tract).