Singapore: Assorted Food

So I have featured food in several previous posts. Singapore is a great food city, a world crossroads of food. Below are some more pix of the variety, some from the department stores, some elsewhere.

At Ngee Ann City, Japanese dominates 

Vicki would have gone for this had it been a grade above Iberico

At a better restaurant: essence of Singapore: "an additional
charge of $5.00 per 100gm for food wastage"

Dim Sum high tea

Healthy choices

Sugar-free too

No, "Urushi" is not Japanese for "Hershey"

Initially we thought this was really beautifully-carved soap: no, long-nose breath,
this is bird's nest, one of the finest of Chinese delicacies; look it up

We always thought British crisps were over the top in terms of flavors...

Your flavor, Rebecca

The patisseries would have been right at home in Paris

With a few exceptions

Double-barreled hotdogs

Zweiback?

Tastes like jam

 

Real delicacies: the musk melon is 150U$D

Despair not: there's a Marks and Spensers right down the street; with scones,
and even castor sugar too, in case you're thinking of baking

At Texas Chicken (no relation to KFC; no relation to anything,
certainly not in Texas (we lived there 13 years))

Kept me going for days; love those candied minnows

The only food truck in Singapore we saw; veggie burgers

Me enjoying a fine sushi dinner; I thought the Japanese department store might
be a safe place...

Best 7U$D sushi ever

Singapore: More Sound And Fury (And Light And Color) On The Bay

Our last full day continued, into the Gardens by the Bay for the Super Tree show and then back to the Marina Bay Sands Shoppes for the fireworks...

En route to the Gardens, we passed through the egg basin; these turned out to be
huge inflatables, all wired for the impending light show...

On our way to the Super Trees; all this is free and open to the public (except the
Domes); all extravagantly landscaped, as is most of the rest of Singapore

Under the main clump, we had a light dinner, then found a place to watch the
show

Beautiful natural colors at first

And then the little lights really start twinkling; all this to music over loudspeakers;
it was waltz night, effortlessly segueing from Strauss to Tschaikovsky...

After the Super Trees, we walked back through now color-coded eggs

Everything is color-coded, if not color-coordinated

Back through the immense Shoppes to a place on the deck,
from which to watch the fireworks

Thus ending our last night in Singapore with a bang (we
didn't stay for the light and water show this time)

Singapore: Raffles, The Merlion, And More On The Bay

Our last full day in Singapore, after some administrative activities (the wash), we spent downtown and on the Bay. After all, Chinatown, and many uptown stores, were closed for the holiday. Our plan was to do Raffles, the Esplanade, Merlion, and walk around the Bay to the Gardens, there watching the evening Super Tree show and then moving on to the Marina Bay Sands Shoppes for the fireworks and sound and light show (again).

Raffles Hotel, the great old colonial hotel named in honor of Singapore's British
"founder"; never mind the Bentley cluttering the photo

Nice grounds

Raffles' Long Bar is where the Singapore Sling was invented, so, booze historian
that I am, I had to see it

The staircase up is a bit of a museum

Not all that long, actually; I'd already sampled three Slings
in and en route to Singapore, and was not that impressed; if
you're going to dilute the gin, make it a Negroni for me; or
a dry American martini; or, better, just an olive

The War Memorial; Japan took Singapore from the British
in late 1941; the city's sufferings were great, many atrocities

Outside the Esplanade theaters; you can see why the locals call them the ""Durians"

Although it's all over the air and cable waves, this is the
first written notice we've seen

We're taking reasonable precautions, washing our hands a lot,
avoiding very dense areas where we can; at this writing, we're
rather more impressed with the fact that, to date, 19 million
Americans have had influenza type B, and 10,000 have died;
American exceptionalism again

Us on the Bay

Mr. Merlion again

Short-cutting through a nice restaurant

Thinking

Merlion, Esplanade, and weird buildings

Skirting the financial district

Now short-cutting through one arcade of the Shoppes on Marina Bay

Of course if you're not into walking, you can always just cruise the Shoppes
(one level only)