Singapore (24-25 Aug)

The thing I miss most about living in Luleåland is the lack of good, cheap Asian food (my favourite cuisine). There are 2 good thai restaurants there, but mains are ~30-40 $AUD, and the chinese restaurants are so-so though a bit cheaper. No quick bowls of noodles to be had.
Our first outing was to a hawkers market, a huge food court where each stall specialises in something like noodles, seafood, satay, or drinks. This is the fast food of Singapore - cheap, usually fried, with a focus on meat and carbs. It was great! I had my fave char kway teow, satays, and for the first time: stingray, which was really tasty. In a couple of days I could start saying this was my preliminary revenge for what happened to the Croc Hunter.



It took Geordie 3 years to get able to 'enjoy' durian. I had 3 hours.
And actually, it was pretty good. It does have a kinda slimy, fleshy texture to it, but aside from the smell it tastes like vanilla, a bit like custard apples. But strange to eat with such an unpleasant smell lurking around, and which stays on the fingers for quite a while. Would I eat it agian? Yes.

Me, Geordie, and Durian

A typical residential street, where Geordie's in-laws live

I don't have a good picture of it, but a great thing about Singapore's streets was the greenery. Being a tropical island, all the main roads and freeways are lined with massive, green trees, which is very different to the unending grey concrete + billboards on the commute to work in Chicago.
During the day I did two things I didn't actually plan on doing - waterskiing (or wakeboarding) and electronics shopping. Geordie had taken the day off work, and I thought I would just hang around and see touristy sights, but in the end we tried this rope-pulley skiing system set up on a a lagoon just near the hawkers market. It was quite hard, and I only got around the whole circuit a couple of times. Maybe I should have turned around...


At the chicken rice place

Geordie and E

Chinatown. largely the same as most Chinatowns I've been to


Me!


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