Day 10~ was the last day of our trip to Singapore, and it was technically really only half day because we had a flight to catch at about... 6pm or so. We shall miss the cheap and delicious food in Singapore, miss my sister and M, miss the holiday mood, though not the humidity and definitely not the heat.

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Breakfast! Consisted of nasi lemak... I've forgotten how much it was already, but I think it was $1.60... something absurd like that.

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We also got their laksa, another insanely cheap dish they had there. This was breakfast, mind you. It's almost like eating curry for breakfast. Not that there's anything wrong with that~

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Hidden within the banana leaves are the goodness of nasi lemak. We had the biscuits the day before, the real thing the next.

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Lunch was at a Chinese restaurant at Marine Parade- the shopping centre opposite where tt was staying. Their turtle herbal jelly with a little glass jar of honey.

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!! We didn't go to Din Tai Fung in Singapore!!! But it's ok, still had xlb! =D

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Their very healthy double boiled pork bone and veggie soup. We really needed something light after the laksa and nasi lemak for breakfast ^^''

That day, tt and I had time to wander around the shopping centre ourselves, where we did some present shopping for my sister and M. They've been such good "hosts", taking days off to spend time with us, bringing us to all these places and good recommendations. It was funny how my sister had a list of places and M had his own list, and they are so different. One list consists of cool, hip places to go to such as places to chill and relax or shop, whereas the other consists of good, cheap and delicious food places, so thanks to the two of them, we managed to go to a wide range of places and try plenty of different things. We took this time to get some presents for them and had such fun writing and drawing the card. Hope they liked it =P

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Our last meal in Singapore- Yong tau foo (stuffed bean curd). I haven't been back to Singapore for so long, I've completely forgotten how to even order this! There are all these varieties of vegetables, fishballs and stuffed tofu, where you pick the ones you want into a bowl. I chose stuffed bittergourd,tofu, veggies, ladies fingers and... I can't remember ^^''

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You then hand the bowl over to the person, request noodles, hor fun or just plain, and she'll boil up the broth, cook your items and spoon it back into the bowl, along with soup and noodles. It's really healthy because the broth was boiled with yellow beans~

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Innards!

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M had fried chicken and satay, except it looks more like a big turkey's thigh than chicken... so huge...

And thus concludes our Singapore trip =(

Random snippets:

One might think Singapore's the land of cheap food and cheap... everything. Not quite. We walked into a supermarket and...

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$6.25 for muesli bars.

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$7.40 for cereals.

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$5.60 for pancake mix?!?! I can make 200 pancakes for the same price out of raw ingredients!!!

So if you think about it, eating out is actually cheaper than buying raw ingredients and making your own food. The food from hawker centres are unbelievably cheap and good. Not too sure about hygiene, but "don't think, just eat".

I've been trying to find the photo we took when we went to a "maid cafe", but I can't find it anywhere- it must have been in my sister's memory card. Yes, we did try to go to a maid cafe, except the term "maid" in Singapore holds a very different meaning to the Japanese. There are, in fact, plenty of maids in Singapore and there are agencies which you could go to for hiring maids, where you can choose maids to cook for you, clean for you, take care of kids for you, etc. The Japanese version of maids is cute, docile and submissive young Japanese girls in Victorian styled aprons and frilly dresses saying "Irasshaimase, goshujin sama" and feeding you cakes, candies, playing scissors paper stone with you and "punishing" you by giving you a slap or making you drink a diarrhoea-inducing concoction- while making you pay for being in her cute company the whole time.

So imagine a blend. You take the appearance of typical maids you get in Singapore, along with some stolen elements from the Japanese maids... like badly pronounced "Irasshaimase, goshujin sama"... yea.... that was what we saw. Thank goodness we didn't give them a chance to burn a hole in our wallets- we ran in the other direction, barely keeping a straight face.