After months and months of complaining that I never get to travel for work enough, my lovely boss sends me to Singapore! yippee!! I get to visit my friends, eat like there's no tomorrow and shop to save the economy as long as I have a few meetings in between.
I've only ever known Singapore as a land of stop overs. My eldest sister, Vivian, lived there for 15 years and I visited en route to or from home
over the years. As a stop-over city, you can't help but be impressed by the efficiency and the cleanliness. As a mad foodie, I would always leave this stop-over city carrying extra kilos in my belly and my luggage!
This time, I'm visiting friends, who take me to Haji Lane in Little Arab. In many years of visiting this city, I have never visited this cool alley with its Banksy-esque street art and edgy boutiques. We had coffee in a really cool shop which serenades as a mid-century design workshop - coffee was bad, furniture was too amazing! I could've bought the entire shop's stock!
I also visited the impressive new casino - the MSB or some acronym or another. The
re's a cool bar at the top where you have the view of the entire city - tres tres chic!
Judy and Greg - being excellent foodies themselves, took me to most of Singapore's hawker centres where I chowed down on Char Keoy Teow (fried flat rice noodles), wonton
mee (braised egg noodles with slivers of roast pork) and had piece after piece of nonya kueh (Malay steamed desserts).
Notwithstanding the time spent eating, I also managed to snap up Zara's finest :)
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