Best that you have eaten at cookhouse...
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Ehx,"that" cookhouse?Originally posted by HENG@:X'mas of 2001. best ever.
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Pak jammer enlisted into Tim Sum unit ah? hahhahaOriginally posted by windjammer:i was enlisted in the 80's...back then i had 'Fan Choy', 'Lor Mai Kai', big pau or char siew pau for breakfast in the cook house...
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rice prepared in stock using maggi chicken stock-cube?Originally posted by ditzy:Chicken rice, only the rice, not the chicken. I repeat, just the rice. -
did my ns during mid 90s....half my ns was army cooks, half SFI aunties...
lets just say we were stuffing everything the aunties cooked after experiencing the burnt stuff the army cooks dished our....i remember the rice with burnt peanuts served at bfast during my BMT IPPT test morning....the
CB cook told our sgt..."not leady lah the lest, my problem har?"..when our sgt asked him whether the rest of food ready anot....
for best canteen, i can only say the canteen at OETI was the best ever boy!...really good tasting food....our 6 weeks there was like just tea break, lunch, tea break again!..of course freaking broke after that...but wat the hell lah... -
had an NCC camp at Seletar Camp a long time back...i guess it was Roasted Chicken Rice......
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ayer rajah camp has very very nice muslim fish. though of an unknown species; ignorance is bliss.
alot of people say the chicken wing at the canteen is nice, i don't find see what's so special about it, anyway they've relocated to lucky plaza after fighting broke out between the muslim stalls.
usually avoid going canteen, don't see the point of eating so many meals a day. somemore 1 meal ~ 1 hour's pay. BO HUA LEH
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During my BMT at the Tekong cookhouse... the Pre- Chinese New Year dinner in 2001 we had an abalone each with the satay and stuff... best food ever from the SAF
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abalone!Originally posted by cornyfish2000:During my BMT at the Tekong cookhouse... the Pre- Chinese New Year dinner in 2001 we had an abalone each with the satay and stuff... best food ever from the SAF
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No wonder many non-muslims at OETI prefers to indent Muslim rations.Originally posted by nismoS132:ayer rajah camp has very very nice muslim fish. though of an unknown species; ignorance is bliss.
alot of people say the chicken wing at the canteen is nice, i don't find see what's so special about it, anyway they've relocated to lucky plaza after fighting broke out between the muslim stalls.
usually avoid going canteen, don't see the point of eating so many meals a day. somemore 1 meal ~ 1 hour's pay. BO HUA LEH -
Yup, those pple who enlisted for Tekong BMT in dec 00/jan 01 will be able to testify to that (unless they had the muslim food or went late for dinner).Originally posted by Gordonator:abalone! 
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Yeah.When I was at HQMES and subesquently at OETI in 2003, they had mee goreng during morning breakfast after guard duty.Originally posted by chikopek:No wonder many non-muslims at OETI prefers to indent Muslim rations. -
from armynewsInteractive
Tracing the hands that feed us
Since the beginning of the SAF, the soldiers in Our Army have had to rely on food cooked by their very own comrades. As those who were in charge of the meals would know, meal preparation was not as simple as it seemed.
The cooks, besides having to cook the food and then clean up afterwards, also had to go personally to the vendors, choose the food they wanted and ensure its quality. After that, they had to pack and transport it back to the cookhouses before starting the cooking. The cooks were thus also the marketers, quality controllers and transport personnel of the meals they prepared!
The cooks also had to be hard at work when soldiers “eat fresh” in the outfield. They had to set up their own tents and bring along their cooking apparatus and ingredients, and with their makeshift kitchen provide piping-hot food for the troops.
With many cooks needed to provide food in all the SAF camps in Singapore, the vocation took up a substantial portion of full-time national servicemen. From the mid-1980s, the SAF saw the number of national service enlistees per year gradually decrease. A study was done in 1984 by the SAF that projected a 38% shortfall of cooks in three years. There was thus a need to increase productivity and make better use of the manpower in the SAF.
1984: SAMPLING A CATERING SYSTEM
To combat this shortfall, the SAF adopted a Centralised Catering System, allowing commercial caterers to supply food to our soldiers. Following a successful pilot project between May and December of 1984, the SAF engaged two commercial caterers- Chrisvic Pte Ltd and Changi International Airport Service to supply the meals. Together, the two companies supplied food for around 10,000 men.
With various checks in place at all stages of the food preparation, good, clean and halal food was guaranteed. The change also meant a greater variety of food being served, and a reduction in manpower at cookhouses by 50 per cent.
1988 AND BEYOND: EXPANSION AND COMMERCIALISATION
By 1988, the SAF implemented the Centralised Catering System in all its camps in partnership with the Singapore Food Industries. Cooks were gradually phased out from their role of preparing food and were retained for handling the pre-cooked food and for the washing up afterwards. The SAF planned to reduce the number still further and decided to completely commercialise the catering system.
The main concerns for the SAF, besides reducing the number of cooks, were about system sustainability and training requirements. The system had to be secure, especially during periods of tension and war. It also had to cater to all training needs like out-rationing and mass mobilisations.
The confidence the SAF placed in the commercial system has been well-founded. Nutritious and tasty food is served while the system has helped to solve the SAFÂ’s manpower concerns. Our cookhouse food has indeed come a long way!