Some food stalls...

This is the type of food stall that you will find in most coffeeshops or hawker centres. It is usually called the "cooked food stall" (not that food in other stalls are not cooked) or the "economical rice stall". In Chinese, it's called the "dishes and rice" stall, which describes what they sell perfectly. Basically there is a range of vegetables and meat dishes, and you just point to which ones you want on your plate of rice. There is a standard price for 1 meat +1 veg, 1 meat + 2 veg, 2 meat + 2 veg etc etc.