Manchester/Scotland 2025 - Lunch at Waverley Station and Oink

 

We found a lovely place to sit down for our lunch.  I love the wordings on the chair. Yes, we all need to take some breathing space in this hectic station! It was a quieter part of the station, and it was fun having lunch here while people walking. It was a train station, so we could see many different types of people walking pass us, some locals, but mostly foreigners. 

We have gotten our lunch from the M&S inside the station. It was a rather small one, but it will do. We later found a bigger Food Hall at Princes Street that became our anchor for our whole stay. Above is probably what my husband had for lunch. We all went for the meal deal and get to pick three things from three category. 

And this is mine. I love this Hand Cooked potato chips. I bought almost 12 bags back from there cause it's a lot cheaper there, plus I didn't have much in terms of things to carry back anyway. And for some reason, I love all the pasta salad here with all their mixed sauce. The food really suits me. I especially love one of the salmon creamed pasta which I think I might have eaten it 3 to 4 times. A small salad was actually sufficient to last me for a meal. It was inexpensive, and felt pretty fresh and healthy. 

I saw this at M&C too, and just had to chuckle. I mean, looked at the price! And I bet it doesn't even taste closed to the real thing.  Of course I could be wrong, but there was no way I was going to spend that amount to find out!

My husband also found Oink! In one of the alley at the New Town area near Princes Street while I was hunting for banks to change my old notes. Oink! was actually on my list of budget eats to try. So when he said he wanted to try it, I didn't object at all cause I knew the price would be ok for us.

There are a few branches all around town, and it was fast and filling meal or pulled pork on bread with sauce. 

I thought there would be a queue since I read it was rather popular. Luckily we went in while it was pretty empty, so we  managed to order one to share. I took just a few bite. Sometimes my taste for meat is rather off and I would rather not eat meat at all. I don't know why that is, but I find meat taste dry to me. I however don't have such problem in Japan where their meat is often a lot more juicier. I think it's the way people cook them, as well as how fresh and how the meat was stored. I know, I'm fussy in a weird way. I can eat anything, but I have some irk in terms of badly cooked meat, seafood, heck even badly made coffee. I felt like life is too short to waste my money and calories or things that doesn't bring me joy! Hahahaha. But on this trip, I found out that hot chocolate in Scotland brings me a lot of joy!