At a hawker center or food court, I usually end up eating at the chai png stall, economic rice. Great value. Somehow, I can't bring myself to eat other things. I think I'm unnecessarily anal about this. Somehow, subconsciously, when I walk around the food court or hawker center, I will look at the other stalls and mentally deconstruct the ingredients for the stuff they sell. So for example, when I look at the wanton mee stall, I will think, noodles, same as rice, means I only get a bit of charsiew meat and 3 small wantons. Price $3.50. Might as well eat economic rice, rice + meat + side + vege, $3.20. How about bachormee, hmmm... Same as wanton mee, some noodles, equivalent to rice, some minced meat, small bits of mushroom and other assorted stuff, total non-carb ingredients are almost half of what I get for economic rice. Then there's nasi briyani, absolutely not ......