<p>^If you’re in a res hall, it’ll pretty much be impossible to cook anything. You could bring a bowl or plate if you want, but I think it would just be easier to get one from the dining hall because they wash them for you. And if you want to bring chopsticks, there’s no problem bringing them. I even think they have the cheap wooden ones in the dining halls if I’m not mistaken.</p>
<p>@ MySimpComplex</p>
<p>I don’t now but my Asian parents packed me some… >.>
My mom even tried to secretly pack like a set of various sized dishes and bowels >.<</p>
<p>@MySimp</p>
<p>I’m probably going to be bringing chopsticks, because I’m going to be cooking ramen for myself once in a while with this skillet I got from Wal-Mart. o.O</p>
<p>@Kings</p>
<p>Can you elaborate a bit more getting bowls from the dining halls? So we just go up to them and ask them for what we need, use it, and then return the stuff to them when we’re done? I’m kind of confused here…</p>
<p>^Nope even better. You just go to the dining hall, take a bowl, take it back to your dorm, eat out of it, and then return it to a Toby Spot which is a cart where you can put your dirty dining hall dishes so you don’t have to take it all the way back to the dining hall.</p>
<p>Where are the Toby’s Spots located, if not at the dining halls?</p>
<p>speaking of food
how are the prices?
which college has best food/lowest price?</p>
<p>@adl0816</p>
<p>They’re usually in or around the apartments and res halls. We had one in our trash room outside of our suite.</p>
<p>@GravityxZero35</p>
<p>Every dining hall is equally overpriced. The best dining hall is OVT in Marshall, but Muir’s dining hall was closed last year, and I’ve heard it’s good too. Don’t go to Plaza Cafe in Revelle. Just… don’t.</p>
<p>What’s wrong with Revelle’s Plaza Cafe?</p>
<p>I heard Muir’s dining hall was as good as, if not better than, OVT before it closed. Luckily for us Muir people, the brand new Pines dining hall opens this year, just in time. :D</p>
<p>by overpriced you mean how much…
i think i only have like $85/wk… thats like $12 a day</p>
<p>^Well, it really depends on how much you eat and how smart/stupid you are at conserving/wasting money. Needless to say the people who get soda for all three meals a day tend to be the people that run out of money quickly.</p>
<p>@samoo</p>
<p>Put simply, EVERYTHING THEY SERVE THERE IS A NASTY EXCUSE FOR FOOD! It’s sad.</p>
<p>Sadly, Warren’s Canyon Vista is also pretty horrible.</p>
<p>wow, is the food really that nasty? It doesn’t look that bad in the pictures lol</p>
<p>The pictures always look better than the real thing, like the one you see in commercials and such.</p>
<p>@Physalis</p>
<p>I don’t agree. They serve some good stuff and they serve some bad stuff. You just have to know what not to great.</p>
<p>What do you recommend then? I’m probably gonna be eating in Canyon Vista alot since I’m in Warren.</p>
<p>^Ahhhhhhhhhhhh, there’s so much to list. The chicken quesadillas are amazing. The hamburgers are pretty good. The pizza usually sucks. Go to OVT or Foodworx if you want good pizza. The sandwiches are pretty good as well but overpriced like pretty much everything else. The pasta is usually good and the best deal for the amount of food you get for the price. I would avoid getting it with the alfredo sauce when they have it, which is sad because I love alfredo. Never ever ever EVER get the Torta Cubana unless you want to die. Same with the Philly cheesesteak. Most of their Asian food sucks too, especially the fried rice. Why do they have to kill the fried rice!?!?!?! That’s just some stuff I thought of off the top of my head, and that’s just for CV. Every dining hall is different. But really, at Plaza, everything sucks. I really don’t know why UCSD hates Revelle kids so much because they serve the most disgusting stuff there. I felt really sick after eating black beans there once. I’m not ever really sure what I ate was black beans because it sure didn’t taste like them. :(</p>
<p>Stay away from the “Chinese” section of CV for the most part, especially if you’re used to eating good Chinese food. For example, when they make “orange chicken”, they take chicken nuggets and cover it with orange chicken sauce. Ickk…</p>
<p>What I found useful is having a rice cooker and a plug-in grill (sometimes you can buy one at earl’s using meal points. Earl’s is a student store next to CV). I made my own fried rice a lot and ramen/udon in the rice cooker. They sell ground beef, shrimp, chicken, and eggs at earl’s, so if you’re not too lazy, you can get really creative with just two cooking appliances.</p>
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<p>Oh man, that’s so true it’s not even funny. Their Chinese food is even more horrendously bad than Panda Express.</p>
<p>Well, I take great comfort in the fact that maybe the Freshman 15 will work in reverse for us (bad food + hilly campus + walking). </p>
<p>If you get the standard meal plan with the housing, how much $ is it per day for food?</p>