The birth of this blog

I never knew how to cook before I went to study in UK.

Back then (and now, as well), buying food anywhere in Malaysia has never been a real problem. There are roadside stalls everywhere, serving all varieties of foods and drinks, and like a popular saying goes, `one can never go hungry in Malaysia"!

When I left for UK, part of the cultural shock included the lack of open stalls, the lack of cheap restaurants/cafes and of course, the different types of food available even if you can find a cheap place to lunch.  A couple of months after landing in UK, the Asian economic bubble burst. Suddenly, as students, our cash reserves that we brought over shrunk overnight. Suddenly, a meal of club sandwiches and crisps was equivalent to the cost of 4 meals at home! Thats when it became more of a survival mode that kicked in, that I learnt to cook, learnt to be creative with my meals, and started packing lunch to school every day.

After many years back in Malaysia, and working in a company where there is an in-house canteen, lunch had never been a problem. However. when my company shifted our office, to a new building which has no in house canteen, and the nearest foodstalls are some distance away, suddenly people in the office started preparing sandwiches etc and bringing them in lunch boxes (or bentos) for their daily lunch.

I am also one of these people, and I have been packing my lunch every day since.

I thought of sharing all the ideas of preparing bentos for lunch in the officeplace, and one of the best way is to blog about it. Hence, the birth of this new blog of mine - My Laptop Bentos !

Indeed, every morning, the 2 essentials for me that I bring to the office is my never-leave-my-sight laptop, and now, my bentos.