Speaking of mess food, I spent one unfortunate year at the NLS hostel and have no idea how they could produce food that was as bad as it was. The highlight of the week was something called pepper chicken but it could have been blackened crow for all I know. I lived on a diet of Romanov and Randy Reddy's Chicken Kebabs. And then I very conveniently developed an 'allergy' that required me to live at home.
The things we did to find moderately edible food.... Nikhil and Badri will have more to add. -- Please read our new blog at: http://blog.prathambooks.org
