Yes, I know, it's been over a month since our last blog. The week after we returned from Langkawai I started Mandarin classes. The amount of work to keep up has been a bit more than I expected. Time has flown by and today is the first holiday in the semester, thus, some time to finally sit down and write! This blog is way overdue as we were actually in Singapore at the end of February/beginning of March. My last visit to Singapore was a 24 hour layover the day after Christmas in 2011. Nate has been back a few times for work, but this time got to do a little sight-seeing. The city is under quite a bit of construction - new buildings, sites, improvements to their rail system - but one thing still hasn't changed, how yummy the food is!
Our first time eating Singapore's highly regarded chili crab was in 2009 - our very first visit to Singapore. Nate and I had stumbled upon a random restaurant in the Clarke Quay area. We ordered a 1 kg crab and spent over two hours devouring every last piece of it. I've been dreaming of chili crab ever since. Nate's co-workers took him to No Signboard during one of his previous business trips, and he kindly shared this secret location with me. FINALLY...chili crab!!!
Of course no trip to Singapore is complete without a visit to a few hawker stalls...
One morning, while trying to decide what to eat, we saw a line at one of the stalls. Clearly the food MUST be good if people are willing to stand there for what ended up being 30-45 minutes. Nate was very patient, and I'm happy to report it was worth the wait!
I was also very happy to see that our favorite (as well as Anthony Bourdain's) hainanese chicken rice stall is still in business! In fact, it doubled in size -- two stalls instead of one!
I've been debating whether or not to admit we did this next activity...We've been to Singapore so many times, that I finally decided we had to do this since everyone always mentions it to us and I'm also a sucker for animals!
Yes - we went to the Singapore Zoo to go on the night safari. It's one of those places that I'm guessing you need to have a child to enjoy since it was basically a crowded amusement park with zoo animals. Glad the mystery is over, and it's nice to see animal conservation at work, but I'm not sure we'll be doing this one again...
We'll be uploading our full Singapore album soon. In the mean time, you can visit Nate's singapore [mar 14] album for a few pictures!
- Trisha