Singapore again from Sunday to Wednesday. This time, we flew in style from Shanghai. Took Singapore airline with 3 seats between the two of us! Haha... Nope Biz class; not worth it. Our Indian vegetarian meal came in a tray double the size the of the regular econo meal. And Yummy... beans and rice (O so spicy). Nan bread. Salad and fruit. O yeah, service excellent and red wine galore. Why not. And of course, personal entertainment system. Saw two movies. Max Payne and VigilentiKills. Max Payne, ok; if you want blood. The latter, was good. Had me going till the end of the movie. With the two main actors - De Niro and Pacino. Wow... Very hard to see good movies out nowadays.
Now, back to the food thing. I am the host for my parents; convinced them to come to Singapore as well. On Sunday, we arrived 5 hours before they did. And they almost never made it. Heavy fog in Macau, ferry couldn't leave terminal. Too early for that. Global warming.....
Parents are staying at this boutique hotel just at the edge of China Town and Singapore's business district. 50 M from their hotel is a food centre called Maxwell Food Centre. We spent a totally of SIG 16.00 for the three of us at lunch time. A SIG$3.50 Hainan Chicken Rice. SIG$2.0 Two jugs of fresh sugarcane water. SIG$4.0 noodle soup and then various cakes that mom and dad used to have when they were kids in Macau and Indonesia. O yeah, a SIG2.0 Oyster pancake!
The first night, yesterday, I took them to Rendezvous Hotel for curry. That used be a very famous curry place back in the early 20's. Now, the curry is so so. And darn expensive too. Last night had cost us SIG$75.00. We only had 4 dishes of curry include the special of the night - Fish head curry. Rather than simmering the fish head in the curry, it was just cooked and then curry put on top.
Combined from last night and today, I believe I have made my parents walked over 20K. In Singapore, if one wants to eat better exercise.
And one more thing, the b'fast at Scarlet was very cool. Buffet b'fast but not the traditional kind. You have buffet on bread, cereal and fruit. Then you order from the menu for the main set. And when the main set came out, it was arranged in the form of a small nice salad, a kid size stacked strawberry pancakes and then your main either a French Toast stacked with Avocados and smoke salmon or Egg Benedict. If need to pay for the buffet b'fast, it would have cost SIG$15.00. That was cheap.
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