We really are trying to eat our way through Singapore before we leave… I think food will be one of the things we miss most.

Today at work was actually slow enough that we could walk to NUS for lunch. Usually we stick the staff canteen which is in the basement of the hospital. The NUS canteen is about a 5-10 minute walk. We tried something a bit healthier, an herbal soup with duck and preserved vegetables. It may look a bit oily but it was very appetizing with a bowl of rice.

For dinner Ron and I went to Sakae Sushi at Bukit Batok. We’d ordered delivery from them before but only had sushi. They have a lot of other things on their menu in the actual restaurant. The menu is on paper but is also available right at your fingertips as there is a computer monitor at each table with a mouse underneath the counter so you can just click and order. Pretty high tech.

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I wouldn’t say the food was to die for but it was a cool experience.

Today I had a half day off and I had no idea why. Actually I think it’s because I will work this coming Sunday so to make up for it, they give us a half day since they don’t pay us more.

I met up with Ron for lunch at Pepper Lunch at the Choa Chu Kang mall called Lot One. I saw this place the last time we ate at the food court and it looked pretty interesting. It’s a curry beef hot plate.

The meat was a bit dry and it needed a bit of some type of sauce.

Ron ordered a typical Taiwanese meal of stinky fried tofu, pork over rice with a tea egg, and pickled vegetables.

In the evening, we met up with an old classmate of Ron’s dad. He originally picked us up at the airport when we arrived last year and unfortunately we haven’t had time to meet up in all the time we’ve been here. Now that we’re leaving, they kindly wanted to send us off with a good Singaporean seafood dinner at the famous JUMBO seafood on the East Coast. It’s right on the water.

We had steamed oysters with garlic.

Cereal prawns.

Black pepper crab.

Chili crab.

We had a terrific and tasty dinner thanks to the Chang family!

Our friends Timo and Elina are heading back to Finland tomorrow so we had one more dinner with them tonight. We tried Bali Thai at IMM. They didn’t have the specialty drinks I ordered and it was a bit expensive but tonight was more about the company then the food.

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After our dinner, I went back to my coworker’s place and had DURIAN!!!

It’s pretty good once you get over the smell. Tastes a bit like sweet onion but creamy/milky. I had quite a few pieces, yum!

We couldn’t leave Singapore without having the famous Sunday champagne brunch at Raffles Hotel. It costs something like $130SGD per person but it is well worth it. The food is fabulous and the champagne is good and freely flows. My glass was never more than half empty before they would come back for refills. My favorite part of buffets is the dessert and they didn’t let me down. We had a good group and had a great time.

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After brunch, Ron and I had to rush back to finish cleaning out our apartment as our lease was up and we were going to stay over with my coworker Yuet Peng. We had to meet up with the leasing agent and the landlord’s representative to finalize our moving out then had a whole fiasco with getting taxis to take us to my coworker’s place in Choa Chu Kang. But we finally made with all our luggage and ourselves intact.