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Tue Apr 16 09:48:18 2002 (rr) Book: Moon SE Asia Location: singapore our internet cafe du jour We hauled our gear across town to Perak Lodge in Little India. No bathrobes, but otherwise a very nice room. Searched for Singapore Noodles for lunch, but couldn't find them. Nathan's new shirt (shown only in tan, Nathan got blue) Tue Apr 16 09:33:26 2002 (nmcfarl) Book: Malaysia, Singapore, and Brunei LP Location: Singapore So singapore has been cool, so cool, we've signed up for a couple of more days in what is undoubtedly an expensive city. Lodging is universally expensive as the guide books attest (though rachel did get us an amazing deal at our last place, it was very nice, not very cheap.) Dining can be cheap but you have to eat at the Hawker Stalls. These are amazing serving toast with coconut egg jam or roti and curry for breakfast and much much weirder stuff for lunch and dinner. Today we had fresh squeezed pineapple juice, and traditional Malay soup (named after the thais, Mee Siam) heavy in rice vermicelli and shrimp paste, and Roti John a fried omelette in toast with a mild chilly sauce for 9 bucks, Singapore. However if you want to be able to read the menu, have non-plastic silverwear or A/C it can easily cost 10 times (though so far we have managed to keep it under that) that particularly if you order alchohol. And finally there is the shopping. This place is chock a block full of shopping centres and just about any other veriety of retail outlets. The subway stations are malls as are the large hotels, banks, and absolutely everything on Orchard Rd. And we have been sucked in. I have replaced my shirts that where getting too old, and I have a new Singapore Zoo hat to keep my head from getting burned. (this is my 3rd hat, having lost my AdRelevance hat in Tonga and my 'Tonga Cool Look' hat ( which was none too cool) in Australia. [ Just a bit more on the malls, they have whole malls devoted to one subject, for instance 'The Hunan, the IT mall' , that is 4 stories of electrical wonderland. From stores that specilize in selling Fujitsu or Compaq computers, to white box stores (generics built inhouse) and stores that sell nearly every brand of box, network gear, and/or periperal. Also there was a huge computer book store, unfortunatly organized primarily by publisher, that was by far the largest I'd ever seen. ] In spite of the cost it has been amazing, with the food, architecture, and Zoo all being highlights. And all to be mentioned in a future blog. |
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