Alright! The week has just ended (I like to think that Monday is the start of the week and Sunday is the end, but some like to think that Sunday is the first day of the week... hm... same difference!) and I've just finished work, got home to an empty house, had spaghetti with chilli sauce and tuna, experimented with eggs (and killed 3 so far, two in the freezer awaiting results) and now, sitting down to blog.
Day 2 of Singapore.
So after a good night's rest, which usually isn't the best, because my sister's aircon, though it was set at 16 degrees C, wasn't exactly working very well, so the room felt more like 26 degrees most of the time, but still, not complaining, because it would have been worse without the (faulty) aircon. Breakfast was at a hawker centre, where we had.. roti!
complete with teh tarik, their milk tea, which was absolutely to-die for.
The curry that came with the roti~
With barely enough room for breakfast dessert, here's Roti Tissue~ one with condensed milk, other with honey I think? Sure, we've had it at Mamak, Sydney, before, but gosh, the PRICE difference!
Walked along more supermarkets, and because this was a Saturday, I visited my grandpa. He seems well and could walk by himself, though, his dementia kicked in and he repeated himself many many times about the same things... visited my grandaunt at the nursing home too, and even though she seems quite well, she was complaining about being bored, stuck in bed all the time with nothing to do, and hearing voices too... =(
Enough of family matters~
We visited so many shopping centres in those 10 days, I couldn't keep track, but we saw some supermarkets, food stalls etc. This one sold sushi... not in the usual pack, but more like individually wrapped nigiri and makizushi, and a box is given where you just pick up and place those individually wrapped pieces inside. Because everything's wrapped, it's hygenic.
They had the usual packed sushi boxes too, of course.
Talk about cute. They had these stalls set up in the middle of a big space in most shopping centres that sold all sorts of mooncakes and mid-autumn festival related goods and decorations. These are moon-bunnies, filled with red bean paste.
Visited the food court and had coconut- a must get in Singapore! Young, juicy coconut~
My sister went crazy at this shop that sold prettily coloured and decorated cupcakes and meringues. Shop was called "Gastronomia"... but then again, we saw lots of weirdly named shops around...
Got two mooncakes! Sweet ones, and these are special because they're actually frozen. Ice cream mooncakes!
Blurry photo, but it's got no "yolk", though it had interesting flavors. I think the black one was coffee flavored and the green one was matcha flavored...
I actually saw a shopping centre with a fake sky in Japan too, this reminded me of that. It really does look fake, but there's always this fascination with a blue sky and white fluffy clouds... makes things look a lot brighter and more cheerful~ I have yet to spot a sky-ceiling'd shopping centre in Sydney.
Lunch!!
.. was char siu fan! And roast duck! My dad buys these kind of Chinese takeaway so often in Sydney, I thought I'd be sick of it by now.. but it's definitely different in Singapore. The skin of the duck was actually crispy, like.. pekking duck, except with meat attached. I think this is what roast duck is really meant to be, except with the low standard of Chinese food in Sydney, you can't get good roast duck with crispy skin without paying for an actual pekking duck =_= Char siu was good too (and yes, I have been craving for char siu fan even before leaving Sydney).
Dinner was at a restaurant near the sea on Beaulieu Road, called... Beaulieu House Restaurant. There was a wedding on that evening, and we witnessed the ceremony, being seated outside (right under a fan with plenty of "sea breeze").
I think this was their crispy soft shell crab with cereal... it's coated with cornflakes and do I even need to say how good it was? I mean, it's soft shell crab!
Sambal kang kong~ my favourite type of veggie! =D I think I must have consumed near half this whole dish since it was sitting right in front of me the whole time.
Tofu claypot with assorted seafood... I don't think I tried much of this because I don't really remember it... think it was on the other side of the table ^^''
This was their crab with salted egg and fresh milk!! Crazy delicious~
Rwarr! Their chilli crab~ also our first chilli crab (Singapore is well-known for its chilli crab~) I think tt really enjoyed this dinner, who wouldn't!~ with so many crabs =D Thank you jie jie and M for the treat!!
That night after dinner, we went to the Night Safari, a zoo that's opened at night only. It was really really... really hot that night, and being at the Night Safari was even hotter because all these trees were trapping the heat in, not to mention having to wait in line to see the animal performance with many many people... it was really cute though, watching the animals misbehave and not listen to their trainers (it must have been the heat... even the animals refuse to do what they're supposed to do), and then the trail ride on the tram was cooling because all we had to do was sit inside and look out for animals =)
We saw this place where people could put their feet into this "spa" and have fish nibble at their dead skin. Tempted to try, but no, it looks ticklish, and I can't stand that ^^''
End of day 2! =D
4 comments:
Wowow that's a lot of food :P
Jealous.
I've been to one of those spas before, haha.. It's weird as feeling :P
did your feet feel softer afterwards? =P And yep, it was a lot of food, and there's more to come~ I expect taiwan is pretty much the same as in you get lots of good and sometimes cheap (ie. street and hawker centre) food right?
So much crab! I'm too lazy to eat crab - I have to be in the right mood to get my hands dirty...
Unless it's soft shell crab =P And it's totally worth it to get your hands dirty for crab meat! Usually seafood restaurant have a sink close by with soap anyway, you can run there as many times as you like~
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