When I first visited Milk Pail, a European-style wet market, I was at a loss as to where to begin. The plastic bags for the vegetables all seemed hoisted way too high. The varied crowd of shoppers was unrelentless and brash. The Hispanic shop assistants were unsympathetically stocking vegetables in a busy manner.  My trolley was in everyone's way. The types of vegetables were so foreign looking. Where were my familiar vegetables, my fav kang kongs of the asian world? Worse still, everything was sold in lbs. I couldn't figure out if something was worth buying or not. Was a head of cabbage which was cheap per lb but really heavy be better than some light-weighing exotic-looking lettuce? Would I get tired of eating so much cabbage? Which was more nutritional? Which can last longer through the week? What should I cook with it? & the cheese selection was huge. there were abt 8 fridges of cheese & i had no idea. The usual no-brainer Kraft sliced cheddar cheese I usually ate in SG was to become a faraway memory.

I observed the shoppers to see what they were buying. All of them had this determined face and were just grabbing and going. To look and act undecisive was not the way to survive here.

To up the ante of this stressful atmosphere at Milk Pail,  I happened to visit Milk Pail near its closing hours recently. As if choosing vegs was not difficult enough, I had a time limit because the assistant was pulling the blinds down on the vegetables! I didn't care, I told the guy to stop the blind pulling for a while cos i was not gg leave w/o buying my veg.

Today, I find myself graduating from mkting at Milk Pail when I visited the place sans Joel and emerged unscathed with my week's worth of veggies. It's really the place to go for fresh produce which fuels my usual diet! Looking forward to bringing my mum to the place when she comes, although it's half a yr later.

When it comes to food on campus, the phrase "cheap and good" does not exist, save for this obsure food truck which parks itself along a sidewalk during prime lunch hours. Was actually unsure of its exact location but I was guided by the aromatic smell of lemongrass. Turned out its today's special was Lemongrass chicken.