Sin~ga~pore
Back from a 4-day trip to Singapore! to visit my team from GAMBIT last year. It's so weird, I've been to S'pore and Taiwan twice in this last year. That NEVER happens, heh. Actually, the timing kind of sucked because one of my friends still had school projects and another had a game deadline...... but it was still loads of fun~ Food there is soooo delicious, it's a bit more savoury than Chinese food. I just can't pronounce most of the dishes heh.
My friend Joanne basically set up a 3 day itinerary:
Wednesday: Food, mall-wandering on Orchard Road + watching Public Enemies, hawker centre (open area dining that's like a mix between a nightmarket and a food court)
Thursday: Food, Singapore Flyer, more mall-wandering near City Hall, hawker centre, chocolate bar
Friday: hawker centre, Sentosa (beach), more mall-wandering new Sentosa, food, Settler's Cafe (a localboard game cafe)
Pics and report behind cut~ I take WAY TOO MANY PICTURES all the time orz
Wednesday:
Singapore malls are really nice, actually-- the shops seem to target younger people a lot more than in the States. Watching a movie in Singapore is actually a bit different-- you have to choose your seat when you buy a ticket, first-come-first-serve. Not sure if I agree. But they sell caramel corn!
Hawker centre food near Newton MRT station:
1) Delicious stingray, 2) Satay, or meat on a stick; a classic, 3) Carrot cake, which is easily like one of my favorite dishes ever, 4) An ethnic thing called Rojak
Thursday:
The Singapore Flyer is the world's largest Ferris wheel (42 stories high). Each car can comfortably hold 15 or so people. They even have fancy dining cars with butlers! It lights up at night, of course.
The view is mostly water, ships, and construction though =w=;
More hawker centres. This one's called Makasutra/Glutton's Bay. It's small but it feels intimate, it's nice.
1) An Indian chicken bread pocket with curry... I think. It was nice, 2) Pineapple fried rice-- IN A PINEAPPLE. And lime juice, which is like a limeade and delicious. I can't remember what the other thing was........ but it was delicious? 3) Frog legs. I was excited to eat them but actually they're rather bland =(
The Merlion, Singapore's mascot. Singapura means "lion city." It's kind of cool to have a mythological animal as a mascot, but a fish-lion is kind of strange XD I like the design though, quite stylized and cute.
We went to a chocolate bar next! I'm so weak hahaha. Lots of pics because I'm a chocolate WHORE.
2) Strawberry white chocolate ice cream shake, 3) Belgian waffle, 4) Chocolate soufflé. The soufflé was utterly orgasmic, the way the soft cake gives in to oozing, rich sauce whose flavor sits and permates in the mouth...
I will never need to have sex, I swear.
The clumsy waiter spilled ice cold water on me. It was painfully freezing. But I got them to give us an extra soufflé in apology AHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHHAHAHAHAHHAA just as planned >D
Friday:
Last food picture~
Noodle with some strange name and black carrot cake. Yummy~
Sentosa's Palawan beach! I ADORE beaches. Hot sand and water and sunshine~ Wish we could have played here longer.
We rode a skylift to the top of the island and then rode luges (go-kart/sleds) down. I'm not a good driver =w=; I like this last image for some reason.
Sentosa has a Merlion too, except this one is HUGE!
Hit Settler's Cafe, a board game cafe, with some of my team for a few hours. The place is a bit run-down but it's nice~ We played Settlers of Catan (fittingly, and I pwned) and Apples to Apples. It's a bit of a novelty but the atmosphere is quite nice, I wish they had cafes like this in the States.
And that's about it =w=; It was loads of fun but slightly bittersweet because I don't think I'll be going back for a long while. Even though it's a small microstate, 4 days was not enough especially with all the shopping to be done!
Taiwan picspams to come!
My friend Joanne basically set up a 3 day itinerary:
Wednesday: Food, mall-wandering on Orchard Road + watching Public Enemies, hawker centre (open area dining that's like a mix between a nightmarket and a food court)
Thursday: Food, Singapore Flyer, more mall-wandering near City Hall, hawker centre, chocolate bar
Friday: hawker centre, Sentosa (beach), more mall-wandering new Sentosa, food, Settler's Cafe (a localboard game cafe)
Pics and report behind cut~ I take WAY TOO MANY PICTURES all the time orz
Wednesday:
Singapore malls are really nice, actually-- the shops seem to target younger people a lot more than in the States. Watching a movie in Singapore is actually a bit different-- you have to choose your seat when you buy a ticket, first-come-first-serve. Not sure if I agree. But they sell caramel corn!
Hawker centre food near Newton MRT station:
1) Delicious stingray, 2) Satay, or meat on a stick; a classic, 3) Carrot cake, which is easily like one of my favorite dishes ever, 4) An ethnic thing called Rojak
Thursday:
The Singapore Flyer is the world's largest Ferris wheel (42 stories high). Each car can comfortably hold 15 or so people. They even have fancy dining cars with butlers! It lights up at night, of course.
The view is mostly water, ships, and construction though =w=;
More hawker centres. This one's called Makasutra/Glutton's Bay. It's small but it feels intimate, it's nice.
1) An Indian chicken bread pocket with curry... I think. It was nice, 2) Pineapple fried rice-- IN A PINEAPPLE. And lime juice, which is like a limeade and delicious. I can't remember what the other thing was........ but it was delicious? 3) Frog legs. I was excited to eat them but actually they're rather bland =(
The Merlion, Singapore's mascot. Singapura means "lion city." It's kind of cool to have a mythological animal as a mascot, but a fish-lion is kind of strange XD I like the design though, quite stylized and cute.
We went to a chocolate bar next! I'm so weak hahaha. Lots of pics because I'm a chocolate WHORE.
2) Strawberry white chocolate ice cream shake, 3) Belgian waffle, 4) Chocolate soufflé. The soufflé was utterly orgasmic, the way the soft cake gives in to oozing, rich sauce whose flavor sits and permates in the mouth...
I will never need to have sex, I swear.
The clumsy waiter spilled ice cold water on me. It was painfully freezing. But I got them to give us an extra soufflé in apology AHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHHAHAHAHAHHAA just as planned >D
Friday:
Last food picture~
Noodle with some strange name and black carrot cake. Yummy~
Sentosa's Palawan beach! I ADORE beaches. Hot sand and water and sunshine~ Wish we could have played here longer.
We rode a skylift to the top of the island and then rode luges (go-kart/sleds) down. I'm not a good driver =w=; I like this last image for some reason.
Sentosa has a Merlion too, except this one is HUGE!
Hit Settler's Cafe, a board game cafe, with some of my team for a few hours. The place is a bit run-down but it's nice~ We played Settlers of Catan (fittingly, and I pwned) and Apples to Apples. It's a bit of a novelty but the atmosphere is quite nice, I wish they had cafes like this in the States.
And that's about it =w=; It was loads of fun but slightly bittersweet because I don't think I'll be going back for a long while. Even though it's a small microstate, 4 days was not enough especially with all the shopping to be done!
Taiwan picspams to come!