Following a very good dinner in (one of) the Changi mess we'd take ourselves off to Changi Village for satays/prawn fried rice and beer at Lim's stall.
Hungry little sods we were in our twenties!
Us: "Hey, Lim, why are you eating with a spoon?"
Lim: "Businessman, no time for chopsticks!"
Digressing slightly; some of the best food I had in my twenties was in the Merchant Navy (Elders & Fyffes).