Workday lunches

Apart from those who cook their own lunches in their office pantry, how do you decide on where to eat lunch? Would you consider driving out to another area for lunch or just eat at the eateries within walking distance of your office?

As much as I love to eat Japanese food, I have not eaten and will not eat at this restaurant during lunch because it is too expensive for workday lunches although to be fair, they do have some affordable bento sets but I prefer to eat the salmon bento set which is not cheap so it is a no go at this place.

Most of the time, I will eat economy rice at the food court which has about 7 to 8 halal food stalls but I only stick to 2 or 3 stalls - the chinese mix rice stall, vegetarian stall and chicken rice stall. I try to be early, if not there would be a very long queue for food.

This is the vegetarian stall that I frequent more than the chinese mix rice stall because I prefer the vegetable dishes here which are less oily. Although it says vegetarian it serves hard boiled eggs with sambal so my meals will always be yinchoy (amaranth), broccoli/cauliflower, and one hard boiled egg and the price would be around MYR5 to 6 depending on the portion that I get myself.

One day, there were no hard boiled eggs so I took this omelette. I asked the cashier, is this real egg or fake egg and she answered yes real egg but it turned out to be a fake omelette which is made from soy flour so it is like eating a slightly sweet pancake, double carb portion for me. I should have trusted my own judgement. When I looked at the texture of the omelette, it looks more like pancake than eggs. Oh well, my mistake. Never one to waste food, I polish off everything on the plate.

Sometimes, I buy a small pizza on offer at MYR3.90 nett from Aeon Big Supermarket and eat it for lunch and tea but it is quite salty so I don't do this often. If my memory serves me correctly, the above is a cheese tuna mayo onion pizza.