Eating Outside

Beside eating at home and fast food, there are some local restaurant and foods recommended in Sheffield.

1) Hong Kong Wok (http://www.hkwok.co.uk/)
    Location : London Road, Sheffield
Comfortable environment, Good service and delicious Chinese cuisine.

2) Yates' (http://www.weareyates.co.uk/sheffield)
     Location : Cambridge Street, Sheffield (Opposite City Hall)

3) Nando's (http://www.nandos.co.uk/)
    Location: --West Street, Sheffield
                   -- Meadowhall, Sheffield

Special recommend Nando's in UK!! must must must and must try. Taste really different with Malaysia. thousand times better than Malaysia Nando's (our personal recommendation, no offence)

*have to try this chicken liver with Portugese roll!

4)Chino's (http://www.just-eat.co.uk/restaurants-chinos/menu)
   Location : London Road, Sheffield

One of the best delivery food for students in Sheffield. Make a call, and they will send it to you.

Most of the students will tried :
1) Kebab Meal (3.50pound) : a Big portion of kebab roll with chicken, lamb slices, wedges, vegetables.

2) Chicken Meal (2.50pound) : A big portion of Chicken, lamb, wedges, fries and vegetables.

 we can say that, almost every students from TAR tried it before. atleast once =P

4) Pho 68 Vietnamese Restaurant (http://www.pho68.co.uk/)
    Location : London Road, Sheffield
A good try of Vietnamese Meal

5) Proper Deli Co. (http://www.properdelico.com/) (http://www.properpasty.co.uk/)

   Location: Pinstone Street, Sheffield (Opposite Town Hall)

You can have a try at this deli for the Traditional English food -- Big Roasted Yorkshire Pudding (don't really remember the name)

A nice and special food which we don't think we can find it in Malaysia since it's a typical English food.

 Of course, there are alot more restaurants, which, you have to discover yourself ^.=

Banking

Before you depart to UK, you will have to prepare bank draft for your expenses in UK (pay to your own name) , and also another piece with your university tuition fees (pay to university).

After you arrive in the UK, university will give you a letter in order to open banking account in UK local bank like:

-- Natwest

-- Santander

So, before you get the letter, open a account in the bank and credit your bank draft, you might need cash i hand for daily use. so you should prepare some cash on hand, around £300 will be good and also as a financial prove to UK custom in case they request the inspection on the financial prove.

Additional:

As HSBC is available in UK, so you can open a HSBC account in Malaysia. You can use it for 2ways ---

• Place all your money in HSBC, withdraw at HSBC ATM when you need money. Under this situation, you do not have to prepare your own living expenses bank draft. But there will be chargers everytime you withdraw money, and the currency convert will be base on the daily currency rates of HSBC bank.

• Spare the HSBC account for emergency. Like if you finish your money from the bank draft you brought over to UK, your parents can credit money into your HSBC account in Malaysia with any HSBS cash debit machine. It will only take one day to process. Its really more convenient for money transfer between Malaysia and UK compared to Telegraph Transfer (TT) from Malaysia Bank to UK local bank (eg: Public Bank to Natwest) .

* 2 things to remember: Activate your online banking when you're still in Malaysia to obtain your bank account number. Once you first time activate your ATM, use English as major language as UK's ATM machine does not provide Chinese as language choice. 

* If you worry to forget your ATM card and online banking passwords, please bring along your parents to open the bank account together, so that they are authorized to make any changes to the account from Malaysia as you cannot make any changed on your account through UK's HSBC bank.

Arrival Information

Please refer to the link from S.H.U:
http://www.shu.ac.uk/international/summer/arrival.html

You will need to fill-up an arrival form as your flight will not reach Sheffiled directly, but the most nearest airport at Manchester. Therefore, it is necessary to fill-up this arrival form for S.H.U to know when is the date and time you will be reaching Manchester's airport, so that they can arrange transport to pick you up from airport.

* You will need to do this thing once you have confirmed everything, this is the last stage once you get the time and date of flight from airline company. Instead of filling up one name in a form, you can fill in your friend's name who is with you together as a group. Send your arrival form to:
summer-school@shu.ac.uk.

Items to bring - Check List

The following are the check list for items you should bring in your luggage.

1)Documents ( very important!)

• Passport (original copy in your hand carry, photocopied copy in your check in luggage for spare.)
• Unconditional Offer Letter provide by your university
• Valid Malaysia driving license (in case you plan to rent a car and drive for trip with friends)
• Malaysia IC, International Student Identity Card-ISIC ( for identity verification to enter some entertainment places and ISIC can give you some privilege like discounts in airport restaurants and some other places.)
• Birth Cert photocopied (in case you lost your passport)
• Passport size photos
• Bank Draft for own living expenses and university tuition fees. (take a photograph or copy down the serial number of the bank draft and send it to your own e-mail or relatives, in case you lost your bank draft, you will need the serial number for report.)
• ----is good to photocopied all the credit cards, bank cards and other important cards you bring along and keep one copied with you. in case you lost your cards, the photocopies might help you in providing the cards details to bank. At the same times, jot down all the Emergency Help Hotline for the credit cards Bank you are using. They will have UK Help Center phone numbers. check with your banks.

2) Digital Devices

• Laptop (jot down your laptop serial number for emergency, eg: stolen/lost)
• Camera
• External Harddisc
• 2 pin plug adapter for Europe travel use as Europe using 2 pin port.UK is using 3pin plug, exactly the same with Malaysia (2 pin plug adapter can be found in Marks & Spencer and other shops in UK too, just go to the travel goods department, but Malaysia selling cheaper.)
• ----do not have to bring extension plug because most the rooms have minimum 4wall plugs.
• ---- for computer software, please uninstall your pirated software before enter the UK border. As there are chances that the custum officer will randomly pick and check on the software licensing. keep the installer in your external harddisc and make it hidden.

3) Stationaries (expensive in UK)

• Pens
• A4 Papers
• ----and any others stationaries you normally use for studies. Bring according to your normal one semester usage.

4) Clothing

• Jacket (although it is summer, but it doesn't looks like summer actually. the weather is around 18c-22c during day time, 13c-17c during night time and UK have very strong wind.)
• Pyjamas
• Leisure wear like jeans, shorts and tshirts
• Formal wear for presentation
• Undergarments
• shoes (sports and formal)
• ---- do not bring too much clothes! because normally people will buy here, seriously dnt bring too much. else you gonna cry when you pack your luggage before going back.)

5) Health

• Medicine (flu, cough, headache, gastric and etc)
• Chinese Oil
• Supplements
• yoko-yoko, Salonpas, Plaster
• Travel sickness medicine ( for those who have Motion Sickness, which mean will faint in moving vehicles.)

6) Personal Care

• Hair Gel
• toothpaste and toothbrush (not cheap in UK)
• hand cream & lotion (weather is dry in UK, seriously.)
• nail cutter (not cheap in UK)
• Hair Dryer
• Bath Towel
• Clothes hanger (bring some, you can request to have the hangers when you buy clothes from Primark.)
• small tissue packs ( dnt have to bring too many packs because most of the toilets have toilet papers, bring some for own use, its quite expensive buying in UK.)
• Cotton wool and cotton buds (not cheap)
• Umbrella ( a MUST! UK rain quite frequently, and please buy a better quality umbrella, because the wind here is CRAZY!)
• ---- personal care above and shampoos those toiletries are not expensive in the UK (except toothpaste toothbrush and nail cutter), so you can buy them over here so that it wont use up your luggage weight allowances. Just prepare a set of travel pack of them so that you can use it before you manage to go out for groceries and toiletries shopping.

7) Food

• Herbal soup packets
• Curry paste
• Instant Noodle
• Chicken Cube
• Milo (if you are Milo lover, please bring because its very rare and expensive over here, not Milo lover, you can substitute with chocolate powder in the UK.)
• ---- do not bring cookies or biscuits, you have even more choices here.
• ----do not bring cutlery like frying pan, cups and etc. Hostel provide one set for each students. bring chopsticks, if you don't feel like eat instant noodles with fox. =]
• ----you can bring your favorite cooking materials except seafood and raw food. But most of the Chinese food spices and materials you can get it here from Oriental Groceries Shops. but the price might be higher than Malaysia.

The Budget Plan

above is the example of a budget plan, and the most important part is the Living Expenses.

Food:

-- Home Cooking

For home cooking, if you have 6person in group, approximately £2 person, you can have a quite satisfied and delicious meal like 

this!

If you are cooking alone, you might need lesser than £2 for a meal. For example pasta, instant noodle and etc.

Let's say, £2 for 3meals a day = £6

-- Eating out

Sometimes, eating out is a kind of relax. For a nice Chinese Cuisine or Western Cuisine, prepare around £6 for a meal, and you can get a very very delicious meal like

this!

so, let's prepare one week once fine eating out, £6 per meal.

Assumptions:

4 weeks in a month : 

budget eating 6days a week -- 6 x (3x£2) x 4 = £144

fine dine eating once a week -- 4 x £6 = £24

TOTAL --  £168 per month 

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Shopping :

-- Clothes 

For sure, you will SHOP for clothes!

For shopping, please prepare yourself on how much you want to spend on it per month.

Because this is totally based on personal shopping behavior, some people spend around £20 per month, some people might spend up to £100 pound per month.

So, consider your own ability on the expenses and its advisable that you make a budget and planning on it to avoid over spending =]

-- Groceries/ Toiletries

special advice here : you do not have to bring over toiletries like shampoos, body shower cream and etc, because it is much more cheaper in UK than Malaysia. For example: Swartzkoff Shampoo can get with only £1~ which is only RM5. So save up your luggage weight allowances. 

Let's spare around £10 per month for groceries and toiletries.

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Tours:

--Weekend Day Trip

• York £10+
• MU Stadium & Manchester City Centre £15+
• Oxford £10+
• Whitby £10+
• Liverpool & Chesire Oak Designer Outlet £10+
• Blackpool £10+
• Cambridge £10+
• Nottingham £10+

TOTAL : £80+

--Overnight Trip (Tong Hang Tour Agent)

• Scotland £150- £250 depends on days and nights
• Landsend £100-£130 

-- Europe Trip after semester end around £800

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The above are the assumption on living, shopping and travel expenses. Of course, different people will have different spending behavior. So, please estimate based on your own behavior and ability =]