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| Views from My Company's Office
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| Singapore is a big shipping city, as seen from the windows of my company's
office.
| Countless shipping containers. View the full-sized (very high resolution)
image and you'll see why I rate this as excellent. It really
conveys the sense of scale.
| Another part of Singapore's port and yet more cranes.
| Looking inland. Excellent. Also, this is another super high
resolution shot that bears examining in detail.
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| A panoramic movie of the same scene.
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| Maxwell's Hawker Centre
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| I ordered rojak from this stall. (Yes, I know it's a mistake to order a
dish from a stall that specializes in something else.) (This stall
clearly specializes in popiah.) Regardless, I hadn't had rojak in a while
and was in the mood for it again.
| My rojak, a mixture of freshly deep-fried tofu, freshly cut fruit
(cucumbers, apples), diced peanuts, and a chili sauce.
| I also had some "carrot cake", which is actually eggs scrambled with a
daikon radish and green onions. This was the "white" version, meaning
without the sweet chili sauce. (Note: the sweet sauce in the "black"
version has no connection to the (incidentally less sweet) chili sauce
used in rojak.)
| Fresh sugarcane juice.
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Di Yin, incidentally, ate here what she said was the best Hainan chicken
rice she's had in her life.
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| Red Dot Design Museum
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| A panel in the Red Dot Museum that briefly describes many inventions, some
neat and novel. If you view the full-sized image, you can read them.
Some of these are very creative, such as the machine that collects
aircraft noise to power runway lights.
| Another such panel.
I find it interesting how many of these ideas
come from South Korea.
The museum has many dense, idea-filled
panels like this.
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| Orchard Road
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| At one end of Orchard Road, the Plaza Singapora mall, like many malls in
Singapore, has quite a number of floors.
| Orchard Road decorated for the holidays.
| Looking down on one part of Orchard Road from an outside escalator about
seven stories up.
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| Snack at Ootoya
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In one mall, we happened upon Ootoya.
This picture was taken
after we ate. Di Yin was so excited by our food that she's posing here,
smiling and holding the spoon.
| The only reason we stopped for a snack here was because we spotted
something on the menu that looked tempting.
| Our dessert of "rice flour dumplings in red beans." Delicious! The
balls, filled with red bean, are in a cup with ice cream and, above the
ice cream, soy milk, and topped with peanut powder. It was better and
more complicated than we expected, and we thought it'd be good.
Incidentally, there were more than the three balls visible in this
picture.
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| Food Republic in Wisma Atria
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| The many levels in the Wisma Atria mall.
| A panoramic movie of the indoor, up-scale hawker centre, Food Republic, in the
Wisma Atria mall.
| The award-winning fried Hokkien prawn mee vendor, the only stand with a
substantial line.
| Our fried Hokkien prawn mee: delicious. Served in a belachan leaf.
Didn't taste particularly fried. We scrapped every little bit up, even
resorting picking up the belachan leaf to pour the remaining juices into a
spoon so we didn't waste a drop.
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| The award-winning kueh tutu vendor. I decided to try them and have
dessert here.
| Coconut kueh tutu (steamed rice flour cakes), whole.
| The coconut kueh tutu filling. Okay.
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Incidentally, we ate at a table behind the big Food Republic sign you can
see in this
picture I took during my first visit
to Singapore.
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| Self-portraits, taken using the reflective underside of an escalator.
| Better, high-resolution self-portraits. Look at our grins!
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