Hot Food Vending Machine in Singapore

Spotted a new kind of vending machine in Singapore. It's a Hot Meal vending machine!

It's located at the Central Forum at the National University of Singapore.  It's where there's a stretch of around 10 different kinds of vending machine, all in a single row.



I am not sure how it works. I did not try it. Maybe one of these days I will try it!
(not because of how the food will taste, but how the machine works!)



There's a touch screen where you can order your meals.
There are 4 different meals on sale now. Pasta with sauce, Fried Rice, Hor Fun and Curry Chicken.

I am just curious to find out, how the Hor Fun will turn out!
I saw the email address on the machine and googled Jiayen. It seems they manufacture frozen food and their products can be found in supermarkets.

The techie in me wonders how the food is heated up. I suspect it will be microwaved. On the screen you can see that the food in the machine is stored at minus 14.2 degree Celsius.  Wow, how cool!

Would you buy Hot Food from Vending Machines? 

Hug Me Coke Machine @ NUS

Something interesting spotted at the NUS Campus today.
A coke machine that looks very different from the usual Coke Vending Machine.

(For those who wants to know where this was located, it's near LT14 / LT15, the walkway in front of the Lecture Theatre, near to Forum)



It just has a Hug Me word on it and a 'hole' to collect the can drinks.

How do you get the drinks out, since there are no buttons to choose your drinks and no holes to insert your coins?



You Hug It!

Noticed this guy took a few hugs before the machine is satisfied with his hug!



Maybe tall guys have it easier.
This guy held the machine up close and the machine likes him and gave him a coke immediately!



I tried it too and got a hug. Hug it 3 times before I got the drink.

If you are in NUS these two days (Thursday and Friday) you can find the machine and give it a hug.
A special project by the NUS Student Union (NUSSU). They call it the NUSSU Exam Welfare Initiatives.

(Hmm. My prev uni in Melbourne during my undergraduate years did not have this!)

Oops...

Sometimes it happens.
I was going to get a drink from the vending machine and saw this....



Oops, all the bottles fell.
Nope, can't get a free drink. The drinks are dispensed from the middle of the machine.

"Guarded" vending machine

I was laughing at this vending machine when i saw it. First it was grilled up like anyone would have the strength to carry it away. Then i saw the top, it has a shelter over it!

This vending machine as spotted at a park in the west. Does your city have vending machines in the park?

Take a peep at the inside of a vending machine....

I saw this, the inside of a vending machine and thought, oh.. how ugly it is inside. Compared to the cold refreshing plastic cover that wraps up the ugly steel inside, what a difference.



Colleague said, humans are the same. All messed up and bloody inside. Hmmm..