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Bryan · Joined: 29 Oct 2007

I'm gonna be buying a meal plan from the cafeteria when I come, so I am just wondering if the food is any good, or of good value. I eat a lot.

SuperHero · Joined: 10 Dec 2003 Location: Superhero Hideout

it's cafeteria food, need one say more.

you get a lot and it's cheap and that's all it's got going for it.

Bryan · Joined: 29 Oct 2007

Do they usually have salads or boiled eggs or anything?

bluelake · Joined: 01 Dec 2005

It all depends upon your own expectations. Our university just finished its contract with the second outside service since I've been here. The food was the number one complaint of students (followed by not enough hot water in the dorm rooms). Now, the university is running it themselves, and I heard that the food is much improved. Personally, I never found the food bad, but as mentioned above, it is cafeteria food; to me it is what my late brother called a "gut filler".

Yaya · Joined: 25 Feb 2003 Location: Seoul

Bryan · Joined: 29 Oct 2007

mrsquirrel · Joined: 13 Dec 2006

Co-ed dorms?

Sweet

Make sure to post some knicker shots

CentralCali · Joined: 17 May 2007

They cannot make it mandatory to buy a meal plan. Either you participate in the paid-meals or you don't. If they charge you for more meals than you actually consume, then they're withholding your salary. So, you'll end up paying a month in advance and then filing a report for "meals missed." Why get involved in that paperwork drill? Do like I do and get your own meals. As I follow a vegetarian diet, that's the only way to ensure I get edible meals while at school.

Atavistic · Posted: Tue Feb 12, 2008 7:58 pm Post subject:

billybrobby · Joined: 09 Dec 2004

I ate lunch every day at a Korean uni for a year. It's very cheap, but it's worse than the worst restaurant food. Which is not to say it's horrible, it's really just what you would expect. There was always a choice of at least two main dishes.

As far as salads go, in Korea, a salad is some white lettuce with ketchup and mayo sprayed on it. Blech. I don't recall ever getting boiled eggs. Just my experience.

indytrucks · Joined: 09 Apr 2003 Location: The Shelf

The other uni teachers and myself refer to our caf as the slop buffet.

They occasionally do a mean fish cutlet. Otherwise, I brown bag it every time.

DRAMA OVERKILL · Joined: 12 Apr 2005

CentralCali · Joined: 17 May 2007

They can say mandatory all they want, but if they charge you for even one meal more than you actually consume, it's an illegal withholding of your salary.

DRAMA OVERKILL · Joined: 12 Apr 2005

CentralCali · Joined: 17 May 2007

Now, debit system is a different story. I think those are great. Buy the card (you pay more for the cutesy ones, such as the bears, rabbits, etc.) and then put whatever amount of money you want on it. Then, if you do go the cafeteria, you wave the card over the scanner. That's convenient and honest, to boot.