The red-eye from Colombo to Singapore got us there extremely early in the morning, but right on time. We hooked up with Shandi, a personal taxi driver that our friend Hanji arranged for us. Shandi drove us straight to one of the best Singapore hotels where we checked in, un-packed and went back down to the restaurant and enjoyed a marvelous breakfast. We then went back to our room for a quick nap. Several hours later, we woke up still hungry. So, we set out to find something to eat outside our hotel.
It was so good to be back in Singapore. It’s the second busiest port in the world, right behind Rotterdam, and because of this, Singapore is a melting pot of culture. The Chinese is predominant, then theirs the Indians, Europeans and then the Southeast Asians, and all the rest. So, our only problems about figuring out where to eat, was to figure out what we wanted to eat. All the food appears to be exceptional and ethnically diverse. We decided to make it easy for us to choose, we will pick Thai today, Tex-Mex tomorrow, Japanese the next day and Indonesian after that. Or should we do that arrangement for every meal? Well, we thought we made it easy, guess not.
When we were in Sri Lanka, we weren’t all that crazy about the cuisine. We ate Deli France and french fries more than we would’ve liked. Some Sri Lankan food is okay, but most we found to be extremely spicy and lacked a balance of nice spicy, like sweet and hot combinations that the Thai’s use. Another issue was adhering to the 3rd world eating guidelines, which are ‘peel it, cook it, boil it or forget it’. We attempted to eat mostly vegetarian and avoid salads or any other raw vegetable, so that didn’t leave us much to eat. So, being here in Singapore, our bodies were craving fresh green vegetables like no-body’s business. We decided to go Indonesian and have salads and then do Japanese and do raw meats!
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