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| Breakfast in Furama City Centre Hotel
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| The breakfast I assembled from our hotel's buffet. The croissant/pan au
chocolat was better than the one I can get in Shanghai, but it still
wasn't a real croissant.
| Fruit to round out breakfast.
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| Misc
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| Singapore does many little things right: notice, for instance, at this bus
stop the benches are at different heights -- reasonable seating for a
wider variety of people.
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| Jalan Besar Neighborhood
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| I appreciated these tall trees on Horne Road, as the clear blue sky /
unobscured sun made the temperature very hot.
| Singapore's soccer stadium. It seats only six thousand people, which
(compared to Barcelona) either says something about the size of
Singapore's population or the popularity of soccer.
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The streets around Jalan Besar are named after WWI personalities and
battles. This could make a good Game clue, using the country the people
were from or the country in which the battle took place or which countries
were involved.
| Holy Trinity church has a Chinese art deco design.
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| Shophouses along Jalan Besar.
| Shophouses along Maude Road.
| Shophouses along Syed Alwi Road.
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| Berseh Food/Hawker Centre
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| I ate lunch in the Berseh Food Centre, which spans two floors. The area
upstairs near the perimeter had a nice breeze.
| The chicken rice stall.
| My respectable chicken rice.
I ordered it because, due to my
illness, it was one of the few things I thought I could stomach without
feeling sick.
| The Ping Ji Bo Bia stall basically makes popiahs, though they don't call
them popiahs (in romanized characters at least).
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| The person assembling popiah-like things.
| My popiah-like thing.
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Did you notice the text on the popiah-vendor's sign: "You can ask for more
vegetables"? Along with signs like this telling people they can ask
for more vegetables (for health), I saw signs promoting booths using
healthier oil and signs reminding people that a blended juice drink has
one of the servings of fruits that you're supposed to get.
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| More Jalan Besar
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| Shophouses along Petain Road. You need to view the full-sized image to
see the detailing.
| These shophouses along Jalan Besar are, I believe, called Singaporean
eclectic.
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I wandered through the Boon Keng Estates: standard high-rise buildings,
pleasant mall, well arranged.
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I tried to stop by the Central Sikh Temple but found it closed for
renovation. Too bad, as I specifically wore pants this day so they'd
allow me in.
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| Chwee Kang Beo Temple. At left is the Kallang River.
| Inside, to prove I went in.
| People fishing by the Kallang River.
| Sri Manmatha Karuneshvarar Temple, also closed.
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| Dinner at Food Republic in Wisma Atria
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| My dinner entree came from Lau Di Fang Scissors-cut Curry Rice at the Food
Republic in Wisma Atria.
| The joint's award-winning chicken curry rice was respectable/decent but
not exceptional.
(Again, you see I'm ordering simple dishes to go
easy on my stomach.)
| Food Republic's Ice (dessert) Shop. In the full-sized image, you can see
the big menu items displayed on the glass.
| My shaved ice topped with mango syrup, sugar syrup, condensed milk, and
pomelo. The acid in the pomelo (a citrus fruit) made everything taste
off.
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