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| The food gallery's back room contained jars of ingredients. In this
high-resolution photograph, the middle row of jars names an ingredient
and describes its uses, the top right shows a picture of the plant, and
the bottom row has the ingredient itself in a jar that can be opened and
smelled and touched.
| Another group of ingredients. Much of the text is readable in the
full-sized image.
| Yet more. I like how the jars are lit.
| And more.
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Now I'm just doing it for completeness sake. Still, it shows how
comprehensive the exhibit is.
Incidentally, the exhibit out front
about famous dishes was also fairly comprehensive.
| The last one, I swear. Given that the text isn't readable, how many of
these items can you recognize from the pictures of the plants in the top
row?
| Some of the costumes in the fashion gallery.
| Also in the fashion gallery, these are actually different kinds of silk,
not just different dyes.
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| A funky chili pepper statue near the back entrance to the museum.
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| Fort Canning Park
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| The leafy approach to one of Fort Canning Park's old
gates.
| A little lighthouse.
| A tree with branches that spread widely.
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| Singapore Philatelic (stamp) Museum
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| The Singapore
Philatelic (stamp) Museum.
| A typical room in the museum. If you read the large text, you'll see
the museum tries to use stamps to speak about a country's history and
culture and how they've changed over time.
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| Singapore at Night
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| Skyscrapers.
| A movie of the light show on the side of one skyscraper.
| Elgin Bridge, near Boat Quay and Clark Quay, at night. To the right is
one of the many riverside promenades.
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| Jumbo Seafood
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| Some of riverside dining available at Clark Quay and Boat Quay. I ate
outside at Jumbo
Seafood, a local, upscale chain restaurant.
| Chili crab, which many say is Singapore's national dish. It's crab in a
sweet sauce with some chilies embedded, like a slight variation on sweet
& sour. It was good and the crab tasted fresh.
Crazy messy! I
discovered it was easier to eat with my hands than using the crab fork.
I liked the claws because they're easy to get the meat out of; the leg
joints are tough work.
Incidentally, I ordered the small size
crab (1 kg).
It's hard to get a sense of scale on this picture,
but the plate is larger than your average dinner plate.
| Because I felt like I should have a vegetable, I ordered broccoli with
oyster sauce. Despite how the broccoli look, they're still good and
crisp. Broccoli wasn't my first choice, but they were sold out of the
other vegetables I asked for first. This was a small plate of
vegetables (especially compared to the crab).
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