After three weeks in Philippines we
flew back to Singapore for a weekend. We did nothing special, just
normal city life: checked out some music festival in Marina bay, Olli
went to see a movie (Oz), we ate good food and bought a new camera
(Canon Powershot S110) because our 4 years old got broken.
This was our 5th time in
Singapore during this trip so it feels like some kind of home space.
It's so familiar for us that we are little bit lazy to take pictures
but thanks for a new camera, you 'll get some pics now ;) Btw. We
didn't buy an underwater housing yet cause it is very expensive.
Usually housings can cost more than camera itself. So no more
underwater pictures...
Singapore, as we have mentioned
probably before, is the food capital of the world. The food is simply
so diverse and universally good there that you can't go wrong even if
you eat at your hotel (hint: Go and try “The straits kitchen” in
Grand Hyatt). We found a swedish restaurant in the Arab neighborhood
while walking there. They had swedish meatballs on the menu so
obviously we ate there. Ahh, so good! Mashed potatoes, meatballs with
gravy and lingonberry jam for Olli and grilled salmon for Maija. The
food made us think of home cooked food and Finland. Inspired by
homely food we discussed the possibility of maybe ending the trip a
bit earlier than July, but it depends on how Olli will get a job.
Let's see how things end up, but it might be a good time for him to
start polishing the CV and applying for jobs now! ;)
- Olli & Maija
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| Above average sushi in this place. We found it when reading a magazine provided by our new favorite Low-cost airline, Singapore based Trigerairways. They said it to be cheap. It wasn't. |
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| Beef. |
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| Salmon carpaccio... or something like that. Maijas favorite. |
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| California roll. |
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| Ollis favorite. Scallops wrapped in bacon. |
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| Business center in Singapore |
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| Marina Bay Sands. A high end casino hotel. Too expensive for us at the moment. |
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| Coin-laundry. Just like in USA but detergent was dispensed automagically! And no coke vedning machines anywhere. |
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| Swedish home cooked food in little Arab, Singapore. Weird, but good! |
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| Akrabadabra! |
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| Smoked duck and roasted pork... nice! |
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| Fresh green apple juice, smoked duck with noodels or rice and bowl of chicken stock. That's our breakfast this time! |
Nice loking food. Of course "cheap" has a different meaning for different people, but I would also expect a low-cost airline magasine to have similar scale than I have.
ReplyDeleteI note that it is still Tiger. It's so easy to lose customers. One mistake of charging 10 ringettes for check in at the airport when the e-check in was made and Air Asia is out of favor - forever?
Don't tell about the food in Singapore. Too painful to think about it.
We walked past the same Swedish place, but we just started to walk faster. I't amazing what just few months can do. At some point even Tylo sauna may feel good?
There was an article about the cherry blossoms in Japan in todays Helsingin Sanomat magasine. Salarymen send a sentry with a huge pique-nique tarpaulin to the best place early in the morning. He will then wait all day long for the colleagues and the boss to arrive after hours. Then the praty starts with free flow of sake. Hilarious, they say. At this time of the year all weather forecasts have a aection about the progress of cherry bloom, too. Last week of April? We look forward hearing about your experience there.
Terveisin
Jukka