Got an email this morning from a colleague. This is what he says,

Good news: Kopitiam at SMU is now open

It's located at the basement of Li Ka Shing Library, just cross the street, go underground and walk, you won't miss it.

There are about 20 different stalls there, bad news is that it's Kopitiam prices, which I think is more expensive than Food Junction.

End up, a whole bunch of us, more than 20, made our way across the road to the spanking new SMU. There is a glass door that can only be opened from the inside with some access card. Strangely, a guy standing there saw us coming and opened the door for us. I wonder whats with this security that you need a pass to get in.

Anyway, Kopitiam is a short walk from the door. When we reach it, we were glad to find that the crowd is not there yet. We got 1 whole long table to ourselves and find that there's not enuff seats even. There are bright white lights and my friend told me he preferred it to those soothing yellow lights. There are alotta stores there and each stores sells quite a number of different items. A bit spoilt for choice I say.

The price is normal food court price and not the cheap price that we come to expect in campus, but students have a 20% discount. Even then, it's still more expensive than the other universities and polytechnics campuses.

I ordered something that I thought cost $4.50, but the lady collected only $3.60. I thought I see the price wrongly, but I later realize that she's only charging me at student price. But another colleague who's 2 persons in front of me, and another colleague who's right behind me was asked to show their cards, which they don't have. So they paid $4.50 for their lunch, which is the same item as me. Lucky me. :)

Through my lunch, I smelled this strangely pungent smell. It's not really strong, but I can distinctly smell it. I looked around and realized our tables is right in front of this Taiwanese food stall. I wonder if they prepared fermented dofu there. A colleague beside me told me she smelled something too.

The Indonesian grilled chicken rice I ate is not bad. They serves chicken cutlet instead of the whole chicken drumstick and alotta veggie in the soup.

After the rice, I ate ice kachang. It is only of average standard.

One disappointment is the absence of young and pretty students. Maybe it's cause the school is not fully opened yet. We shall see. :P