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| Furama City Centre Hotel
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The view north from our new hotel room on the 20th story of the Furama
City
Centre.
I took this picture the previous night.
| The view in a different direction from our hotel room. This one looks
south-east toward Chinatown. (Notice the decorations over the street.) I
think I'm giving this an excellent because I like the colors of the
roofs and the feel of the photograph. (Okay, I don't understand why;
maybe I'm being too generous.)
| My light breakfast at the hotel. As you can tell, my stomach still
wasn't entirely recovered. Incidentally, the small murtabak square
(top-right) was shockingly bad.
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| Lunch at Maxwell Hawker Centre
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Zhen Zhen Porridge, an award-winning congee vendor in Maxwell Food
(hawker) Centre. Notice the long line I had to wait in.
I decided to have congee (rice soup) not because I usually like congee--I
don't--, but because I thought I could safely eat it in spite of my fickle
stomach.
| Four of the toppings and two of the sauces that get mixed into every bowl
of congee. (I think there are more than are visible here.)
| My fish congee changed how I look at congee. I used to think of congee as
something rather boring and mundane, but this was a party of flavors. In
addition to fish and eggs, it had julienned ginger, sliced green onions,
dried fish, something that may be tiny deep-fried onions, and, I think,
salt, soy sauce, and vinegar.
| The same congee, now ugly after I've mixed it. This picture, however,
shows the fish and egg that were previously hidden under the surface of
the soup.
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| Dinner in Katong
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| The corner of Ceylon Road and East Coast Road is Singapore's mecca for
katong laksa. Of the competing vendors, we selected the one shown in this
picture (328 Katong Laksa).
| Katong laksa. Although this picture doesn't make it look appetizing, it
was definitely good: a flavorful coconut milk soup with noodles, shrimp,
fish, and sliced fish balls. I was pleasantly surprised that it wasn't
overly spicy.
Unlike many noodle soups, one eats katong laksa with only a spoon (not a
spoon and chopsticks) -- part of the katong laksa style involves
pre-cutting the noodles.
| From our seats, I could see the Sri Senpaga Vinayagar Temple in the
distance. (I took this picture with a high zoom.)
I visited this
temple during the daytime the week before.
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| Link Hotel
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| A panoramic movie from the Link Hotel's sky-bridge, which links one of the
hotel's buildings with another. The video's accompanied by my audio
explanatory commentary (now made largely redundant by this caption).
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