what do you eat at american colleges?
ramen and roasted chicken precooked at a grocery store.
I'm pretty cheap, so I can live off simple stuff for a while.
you can look for rice in most supermarket or china town, then you can cook at home. just store some meat and egg. for emergency supply you can always count on instant noodles :)
That canned luncheon meat stuff (like SPAM) that you can fry, is always handy to have in the pantry. Just for those days where you can't be bothered thinking what to have. You can fry it with eggs and serve it with bok choy, or chop it up with fried rice. You can even have it with rice porridge. The possibilities are endless (although it tastes best when it's fried).
I also buy a packet of meatballs (the ones from Asian groceries) so that if I end up eating noodles for dinner, I can chuck a few in. Keep any spare noodle flavour packets because they come in handy for other soup bases like won ton or rice vermicelli.
Rice porridge is relatively easy to make, and it's good for cleaning out the system. Especially when you're sick with the flu. Usually I have it plain with preserved vegies/beancurd/salted egg. Or I chuck in some pork slices and preserved duck egg or fishballs.
Sushi is another quick meal that requires very little preparation. Often I use normal rice, and any leftover meat from the night before and roll it up in seaweed, eating it like a hot dog. As long as you're not making it for anyone else, anything goes.
Oh, one other side dish that is quite easy, tasty and interesting is fried boiled egg. Simply take one hard boiled egg, peel it and deep fry it. I should warn you that it makes quite a bit of noise and spitting. After seconds, the outside should turn bubbly, golden and crisp. Cut it in halves and eat with rice, veggies and maybe meat.
soy sauce, oyster sauce as well sesame oil are essential part of chinese food.
Switching between college food and home food is terrible. I always get the shits or close to it if I go from one type to the other for more than a few meals.
I end up eating pasta and stay away from all the thick breads, burrito roll thingies, and fast food types.
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