by Lori Baltazar
Sights and sounds of a Singapore that satiates my various appetites. A post in photos.
Singapore 2006 trip
Singapore 2010 trip, Part 1
Singapore 2010 trip, Part 2
I’m in Singapore from January 1-6, 2010. It’s the tail-end of the Christmas season and the vibe that goes along with the holidays is palpable still. Crowds are out and about.
In the days that I’m here, cranes along Orchard Road become an increasingly common sight. They’re used (mostly at night) to take down high-hanging decorations.
- photo taken with my Nokia 6700 Classic
ION Orchard is one of the newest malls along this bustling strip. “It looks like a durian Lori, you like that, don’t you?” Quips a Singapore-based friend. The mall, while grand, is equipped with escalators that miss entire floors and hallways that apparently lead nowhere — one way tickets to getting lost, especially for someone like me with a lousy sense of direction. But ION has a compelling reason to persist on: the ION Food Hall with 80+ food stalls (the most popular of which is Tonkatsu Ginza Bairin from Tokyo), a gourmet supermarket, and loads of restaurants, tea salons, and Nespresso’s first tasting boutique in Asia.
- ION is stunning at night – it loses its durian look
Singapore takes on a decidedly different vitality at night.
- 313 Somerset
- Shaw House along Orchard
- Riverside Point
So (overly) satiated I am from my Singapore eats that I pass up the main meal on the flight home. True to form however, I gladly take the dessert, a Magnum ice cream bar – sexy coolness on a stick – and cups of black tea to wash it down.
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Wow Lori! Your Singapore Blogs make me want to visit Sing, even if I don’t know anyone from there. I wanna try hawker food like nothing else!
HI Lori! Nina here, hope you remember me. Am currently based in Singapore and wish I knew you would be going here so could have told you to check out my faves from here:
– Yes Jumbo! ‘Nuff said.
– Irvin’s at River Valley is a great semi-hawker place and their pumpkin prawn is really good — i even tried to recreate it at home 🙂
– Hor fun – yummy sweet salty at Chinatown, Smith street
– Cereal Prawn at Wee Num Kee, Novena
– Hainanese Chicken rice – tian tian maxwell for the rice that Anthony Bordain recommended but I love Boon Tong Kee for its soft flavorful chicken meat
– laksa – i must have eaten this for a whole week’s dinner, the first week I was here 🙂
– Muthu’s – for their unbelievable fish head curry
I’ve never been a chilli person but I am now after more than a year here… Lots of foodie places and sales too (Chinese New Year is coming up and Singapore needs to deplete their current stock) so hope you can come back to visit.
here’s a food blogger in Singapore:
http://eatbma.blogspot.com/
I think he’s American.