Sunday, October 05, 2008

Singapore: Day 2
































Typical Singapore food centre
















Can you guess who "Fatty" is?
















Healthy portions of fat on this roasted pork. This plate also features roast duck.
















Char Siew
















Grace ordered a Wonton Mee
















A lot of these fruit stands sell fresh fruit and fresh fruit juices. It's nice to know that fresh fruit is easily accessible.





















Fresh soursop juice. Quite fond of its tropical flavor.




































Char Kway Teow
















That's a lot of Durian!





































yellow: Jackfruit
white/green: Guava
red: Papaya
















This durian was actually kind of orange in color. There are many different types of durian.
















To the right is a normal person's eating portion. My portion is barely perceivable.
















This was not bad. The last durian I had was pretty gagtastic. Durian still isn't my thing.
















Sentosa Beach





































I like silly looking signs.
































Must... obey... sign...
There is oddly like a 3-4 hour period of time I didn't take a single picture. A bunch of Grace's friends showed up and there was much volleyballing to be had.
















mating fail. I think the peahen is sleeping.
















Have you ever heard of Dr. Fish?
















Met up with Hendra for some fish reflexology. Neither of us have tried this before.
















Washing up...
















Here we are ready to dip in.



























































































Grace: spread your toes.
Hendra: ^ (above expression)
















And some foot massaging to end things.
































Another giant mall at the Waterfront near the bridge to Sentosa.
















And the giant mall's giant food centre.
















Not quite the same appearance of the other typical food centres.
















Hokkein Mee
















(requires correct name)





















Hendra dips his Yeo Tiao in his Dao Xiao Mee. What a good idea!
















The Dao Xiao Mee in Singapore is much more consistent than the one in Toronto so there are no too thick doughy pieces.
















(requires correct name)
















A typical fruit and dessert display.
















An Indonesian dessert. (requires correct name)


















A special message from Hendra.
































Afterwards, we went back to Sentosa. It was two of Grace's friend's birthdays. Keenan in the middle, and Sheryl on the right in white. We're playing Taboo here. Of course it turned into a drinking game. Two teams would take turns to see how many they could get in 90 seconds. The difference was how much the other team had to drink. 1/2 cup (to share) for each so if one team gets 7 and the other gets 4, the losing team must share 1.5 cups of some mixed drink. My team lost like the last 6 rounds. It was pretty bad.
















Little known fact. Grace is quite the party animal. She claims no one wanted to go out to party in SF but even when she last visited, our outings were rather tame.





















Down by the Club Del Mar
















Relaxing from having to not drink.
















Birthday cake.
















And people getting thrown into the jacuzzi.
















And now the girls. Eventually everyone went in. I was the designated dunker by the birthday girl. It pretty much started out as dunking her (she was always willing to go along) and then her saying "ok, now dunk them!"

Friday, October 03, 2008

Singapore: Day 1
















Early in the morning. Flying east to west at night, the sun finally catches up with us.
















Transfer flight from Hong Kong to Singapore at 8:55am. Time for lunch?





















This interesting noodle was served. it was one big sheet of rice noodle but folded over itself many times. Well prepared for airplane food.
















Lookie Lookie, I'm riding in a Rolls Royce airplane!
















The humidity was making some impressive vertical spans. You normally only see about 1/3 of that cloud altitude.
















Random island off the coast of Malayasia





















More random clouds off the atmosphere of Malayasia
































Airport Row - Soup Restaurant. I had to double check but yes, it's just called "Soup Restaurant"





















And here's Grace! My Graaaaacious host. Or am I the gracious one? I'm confused.
















Nuts!
















item #1 is really awesome. This is Hainanese Steamed Chicken with a Ginger sauce that is really good. It's not the normal ginger you see in the US. It's kind of sweet.
















Beautifully wrapped in a lettuce cup with cucumber and pepper.





















Winter Melon and Pork soup
















Boiled dried scallop with Black Chicken soup
















Teochew Olive Rice
















Ah Por Fan Shu (Sweet Potato) Leaves - spicy
















Decor
















Chrysanthemum Tea Face. Made quite well.
















I thought that sign read "Taxi C ity" to which I thought, what an odd implementation... From the side angle, the queue looked quite confusing.
















ok lah...
















Here is a gift I made for Grace





















she likes it!





















Grace also likes fire hydrants. So much that she owns one.
















A typical apartment complex exterior.
















On campus at Grace's school.
















The director is not pleased (with her acting! ZING!)
















Grace took a deep water exercise class that night. I spent some time swimming which I probably haven't done in like 10 years.
















Sign Fail? Restaurant Fail? Engrish Victory!





















I think this is in the Far East Centre.





















Belgian food? Ok.





















Belgian beer! btw, that's Grace's beau Pete in the background.
















"Trick photography"
















Deep fried Camembert.
















Belgian Sausages.
















1 kg of mussels in white wine sauce. Not as big as I imagined it to be.
















Pork Knuckle





















um... yeah... I'm jet lagged. I don't remember...

Thursday, October 02, 2008

Vacation Blog 08





















It's all about the (Mao) Ze Dong's baby.
A start to a new journey...
















Flying Cathay Pacific. "Dinner" was served around 3-4am SF time. A Beef stew.
















Followed by "Breakfast" around... 8-10 hours later? Seafood Congee.