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| Walk to Clementi Metro Station
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Di Yin clucking like a chicken. I took this picture on the walk to the
Clementi metro station from the house we were staying in.
I love
Singapore's trees: not only are they large and provide shade, but they're
also pretty.
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| Breakfast at Clementi Hawker Centre
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| A stand with a little old man who puts all his attention and strength into
making his dishes.
| The "black carrot cake" (actually, a daikon radish omelette with chilies)
that I ordered from this stand. It was definitely greasier than I like,
but was nonetheless decent.
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Di yin had hainan chicken rice (again) and fresh lime juice (again).
(She's figured out what she likes.) Later she spotted a stand with some
awards on it and returned with a very tasty curry puff.
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| Singapore Botanic Gardens
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| Ficus kurzii -- Burmese banyan. Buddha is said to have sat under a banyan
tree.
| A movie showing the full height of the banyan tree.
| A swan swimming in front of statues of swans in Swan Lake.
| The entrance to the fernery.
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| Lunch at Marina Square Mall
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| The stand from which I bought claypot rice.
| Claypot chicken rice. Okay, maybe decent.
| The popiah stand.
| Popiah (a southern-china spring roll). Homey, plain, yet good.
Nevertheless, I liked it better with chili sauce. Di Yin thought it
boring, even with the chili sauce.
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Di Yin had duck rice (a la Hainanese chicken rice). Good duck, good
duck-flavored rice. And the duck soup was intensely ducky. I was jealous
of her food. (She ordered from a shop with a posted award. I did not.)
| The fruit juice stand.
| A banana juice. They made this using a blender. Great. Sweet banana,
much like a shake. Good as a dessert.
| A tomato juice. They made this by pushing chopped tomatoes through a food
processor. Definitely tangy. Good with our food, though it may not have
been good alone. Nothing like the canned tomato juice served on planes.
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| Singapore Flyer
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| A flyer pod.
| The flyer pods on the ferris wheel rising away from us.
| Some pods were set for dinner.
| The view from the flyer toward the Esplanade (the spiky building), the
Supreme Court and City Hall (the two columned buildings by the field), and
more in the background.
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| A panoramic movie looking north and east toward the river, showing the
raised expressway and, later, a nearby golf course (Marina Bay).
| A panoramic movie that continues from where the last left off.
| A panoramic movie begin at the Esplanade and veers left (south) to show
Marina Bay. It ends looking down (to show how high we are).
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| Sentosa
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| A fun suspension bridge on Sentosa.
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| Palawan Beach, on which we went wading.
| Part of a sound, light, water, and fireworks show we saw on the way out of
Sentosa.
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| More of the show.
| A panoramic movie showing the part of Sentosa with all the activities, and
more of the show.
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| Along the Singapore River
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| A panoramic movie of Boat Quay, ending with a view of its many restaurant
along the river. I like how Singapore lights its bridges.
| A sample picture of one of the al fresco dining options.
| The restaurant where we ate.
| Sambal kang kung. Good.
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