We woke up rather late on Saturday and missed breakfast provided by the hotel. So we headed over to the Indian restaurant next door ( not unlike your local mamak restaurant ) where I had their roti kosong set, and FA had their roti bakar set.
It was not good. Imagine those frozen roti canai that you can buy from hypermarkets, and you thaw them in the microwave at home. It was teh sux. At that point in time, I realised how much I missed the mamak restaurant near my office. I made a mental note to appreciate the guys working there more, because they know exactly how I like my Nescafe ais kurang manis, and how I love to DIY banjir my own roti kosong. I know the last line sounds rather obscene, but that’s the way it is 😀
Two ridiculously chewy roti kosong and one nescafe ais cost S$2.90. FA’s breakfast cost more, but then she had a mountain of bread and two eggs.
After breakfast, we walked down the road, past all the cool-looking backpackers’ hostels, caught the MRT to Raffles Place and met up with FA’s friend, EL. We had to stop en route to camwhore a bit…
It’s quite fun being a tourist ‘cos you can do all these silly stunts and get away with it.
From the Merlion Park, we walked to the Esplanade straight to Max Brenner‘s. Pinky took me there years ago, I’m glad it’s still around. I was glad the stuff was still as good. FA took some photos, I’m sure she’ll blog about it later.
We heard some gunshots, and being the KPC that we are, walked a bit to check out wtf was happening. Turned out that the peps were getting ready for their National Day celebration. From a distance we could see neat soldiers and navy type of people in full livery practicing their marching. A bit funny lah but I malas to elaborate now. Just something to do with the loudspeaker and all the echoing bla bla bla.
After that we walked to City Hall because the real tourist wanted to camwhore. Went into City Hall itself, there was a photography exhibition so we look see look see a bit. One of the photos on display was a guy next to a bus with his dick out in the open shooting piss. Nice.
On the way to the MRT, we walked past St Andrew’s Cathedral. It was quite awesome. There was a wedding going on so we didn’t go inside. I took a photo of the main steeple, and photoshopped it a bit. TBH I added the flare in using Photoshop, but the photo below was what I saw and felt when I stood there…
Just that my camera and skills are not that pro to capture the moment, that’s all 😉
food sucks in singapore. i mean, really sucks. i’m talking about hawker fare and such lah. don’t you find the hawker food super sweet for some reason? it’s like they put sugar in everything!! the uppity-uppity cuisines etc are all good lah, but cost an arm, a leg and a testicle.
See, now you can empathize with me for sure – about the sux0r ‘mamak’ food here. I’m so gonna go to Krishna on Jalan Gasing when I get back, and educate my Pinoy roommate about the difference between ‘canai’ and ‘prata’. And real Ampang Yong Tau Foo. And good nyonya nasi lemak. And black hokkien noodles.
if i knew you were going to singapore earlier mesti i call you before you went. i nak kirim… something la hehe
i agree with u!! SG’s mamak food is just not happening la.. msia’s the best! 🙂
i heart the siu long pauuuu….
Singapore’s food is a sad state of affairs, I have to say there’s nothing I miss in Singapore.
the best food in singapore is found in the heartland. er.. so-called ‘heartland’. and being so small, singapore’s heartland could be anywhere, depending on your preference. :p
i’ve not been back for.. a long time *sobs* but you can still find a few nice, old kopitiams along the old woodlands rd, and if u’re willing to go to ulu pandan or hang around ol skool sembawang, got some nice places still.
untouched by tourists. ahem.
my college had its students’ council commendation at st. andrew’s cathedral and i just fell in love with the place. never fail to visit whenever i pop down. city hall’s definitely my fave place to hang out. =)
I was over at Singapore last weekend as well. My cousin bought roti canai for one of the breakfasts we had. They are slightly oiler than the ones we have but crispier. Also, smaller. Haha. I was at the two places in the second and third photo you took. There are statues of a group of boys stripping and jumping into the river behind you.
kermit the frog!