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Singapore: Day Three

June 26, 2012

Posted by Kanga.

Well, we finally managed to get out and enjoy the day while the sun was up instead of jet lagged napping.

three pancakes, pitcher of syrup and butter

It began with breakfast at a restaurant just down the street from our hotel. “All day breakfast” is a good thing. The pancakes you may recognize. DaddyBird’s entree is scrambled paneer and toast.

toast and scrambled paneer

This plus hot chocolate and masala tea set us back $19.40 ($15.18 US). Then we walked to the nearest metro train station and travelled by train.

nearly empty hallway

As you can see, mid-weekday traffic is light.

map of the metro train system

sign showing how short a child must be to ride without a ticket

We were tall enough that we had to buy tickets in order to ride.

tourist pass ticket

They have tourist passes. We bought a three day pass for $30.00 ($10.00 of which is refundable upon return of the pass card). With this we can ride unlimitedly on bus or train. Very handy.

street in Singapore's Chinatown

We took the train to Chinatown.

German sausage stand

In the middle of Chinatown, we found an Austrian running a German sausage stand, of course. On our way back to the hotel we stopped and got some sausages to go. Yummy!

another street in Chinatown

mug of lime juice, can of Kickapoo Joy Juice, and a mug of barley water

We stopped for some refreshing drinks – lime juice, Kickapoo Joy Juice, and barley water.

pigeons in a park

We stopped to enjoy the pigeons in the park.

large painted fans

There were many things for sale.

two plates filled with sliced roast pork and duck

We stopped for a late afternoon meal of char shiew, roast pork, and roast duck. ($4 worth of duck, $10 worth of pork)

saute greens

Kang kong (greens) – too spicy for me. DaddyBird had to eat these all himself.

Chinese pork dumplings

Pork dumplings.

bottle of Jungle Beer brand porter beer

To wash it all down, a Jungle Beer Porter (brewed in Singapore) and a Stone Brewing Arrogant Bastard Ale (brewed in CA, DaddyBird’s home state).

bottle of Stone Brewing Arrogant Bastard Ale

Both from the Good Beer Company.

The Good Beer Company shop

Then it was back through Chinatown to the metro, then through Little India to our hotel and sleep, sleep, sleep.

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What is wrong with this picture?

November 14, 2011

Posted by Kanga.

There are at least two things wrong in the picture below.

rectangular white plate with two pork cutlets, asparagus, baked potato, herb butter.

The two pork cutlets are the only things undeniably right. They were a good size and delicious. The herb butter was tasty, although I don’t put it on the pork, because I think that’s just over doing it. My only complaint about the asparagus would be that I can eat three times that much because I love asparagus.

The two glaringly wrong things, in case you haven’t deduced them yourself, are the rectangular plate and tiny, tiny baked potato. This meal was served in a pub, a supposedly British pub. That is not a pub plate. That is a foo foo fancy restaurant plate (and a foo foo food presentation as well). As for the potato, I would gladly have traded one of my cutlets for a decent sized potato, or three of those little ones. We are frequently at this restaurant, so I will have to remember this experience when ordering next time. It doesn’t really make sense, because meat is always more expensive than potatoes. It also doesn’t make sense to have such an artsy food presentation in a pub. Pub food should be a hearty plateful for the working man. Of course, being Dubai, this pub is in a hotel, so not exactly working man territory.

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