Travel Notes


Thu Apr 18 04:09:05 2002 (nmcfarl)
Book: Moon SE Asia
Location: Singapore
Today we leave for malaysia, malacca in particular which I am greatly looking forward to.But the week in singapore has been much much fun, and we shall have to come back some time to go shopping.

In particular the food has been insanely great. We've eating mainly at the hawkers stalls and had some amazing food. The local singaporian food has perhaps been my favorite as it borrows from western, and all the local cusines, indian, chinese, malay and Straights Chinese. We've had some excelent meals from all of these groups, my favorite things so far being, fried sweet potatoe balls, fresh fruit juice, Bubble Tea which is iced tea with sweetened milk and usually served with gummy 'pearls', and the generic indian roti (flatbread) and curry dishes. All of them are amazing, a great town to eat in.

In a simalar vein the architecture has been very cool with hindi temples, peranakan (Straights Chinese) houses done up in ornate shutters, high rise apartment building and colonial governement building all thrown up next to each up and next to the sky scrapers. The juxtapostion make the indivdual part so much cool.

And my final favorite thing here was probabaly and attraction the zoo, which claims to be the world most open. There where practically no bars, they used water barriers exensively and it make for a much cooler zoo. They also let certian monkey roam pretty much free, and they have an amzing ammount of primate species, which is very much fun. The newest exhibit, baboons of ethiopia, whas particularly weird/cool 'cause it was half zooalogical and half anthropolgical, with much about the native peoples of the area. Odd.

 
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