Singapore: Food Confessions Volume One

Picture this: Day One, travellers arrive in Singapore after a delayed overnight flight from Perth. Very nice taxi driver takes one to the Mandarin Oriental (Hello! but that's a story for another posting). Its now 8am, no breakfast has been eaten, the fog is beginning to lift over Singapore and one's stomach. What is one to do but have breakfast twice?!

Dilemma one is that Singapore really doesn't move pre-10am so after a random wander from the hotel we located a Coffee Connoisseur cafe and had breakfast number one. Then a further wander through shopping malls that were open with no shops actually open introduced the Food Republic, so second breakfast comes from Toast Box.

Return to hotel after walk and shop through Suntec city and Muji (love Muji!) where one got the cutest salad dressing shaker bottle shaped like a beaker and the basic equilibrium of the Singapore fling (sorry for the pun) was set: wander, food, wander, shop, food, shop, wander (repeat as desired interspersed with splash in pool and nap in king size bed).

First on the list of places to eat was Fatty's near Sim Lim Square. Fatty's is a bit of a tradition for one when in Singapore and the order is fairly regular: Nuclear Chicken (a delicious redish curry which is quite spicy), Spring Rolls (porky, deep fried by not oily at all), Chilli Prawns and some greenery. DELICIOUS, so delicious in fact that there were no photos taken (sorry).



After that it was time to hit up the shops for one's entree to retail Singapore. ZARA at 313 Sommerset was the main attraction and many bargains were obtained including a great grey mandigan with block coloured stripes down the back.

Having been without food for almost 1.5 hours, it was time to refuel and recharge and Food Republic on Level 6 was the venue of choice. Cue steamed BBQ pork buns, scallop dumplings, spinach wontons and prawn wonton.

Then it was back into the shops to get some Ts and basics from uniqlo which is this Japanese chain that G&A introduced one to on Oxford Street in 2008. By this stage it was around about 8pm so it was time to return to One's hotel and hit the pool in training for thy Triathlon...

Not to be without food for very long at all it was then off to La Pau Sat which is a great old food pavilion. Of an evening they close down a side street and the Satay hawkers and Beer wenches come out to play. It was DELICIOUSNESS again. There are photos however One is having technical issues connecting One's iPhone to the computer this afternoon so they will have to be added at a later date. But here is La Pau Sat that one found on google images.