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| Breakfast
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| My breakfast of toast with kaya and butter from Ya Kun Kaya Toast, the
good-quality chain that first
introduced me to kaya toast. Still tasty.
Incidentally, I removed the butter.
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From a nearby bakery, Di Yin had a banana nutella bun (a great dessert)
and a coffee bun.
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| Fort Canning Park
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| The main entrance/steps to Fort Canning Park. The park's name is in
large brown letter that are easy to miss in this picture.
| A boardwalk. The park is very green.
| A vertical panorama of some steps slicing through the greenery under an
large tree within the bowels of Fort Canning.
| A crazy tree.
Incidentally, we saw other crazy trees in the park that I apparently
didn't photograph at the time: a banyan tree, a rain tree (which I photographed a day
later when I spotted others), and a tree-cluster (which I also photographed a
different example of later).
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| What a pretty hillside path.
| A two-bench rocking chair, something I haven't seen before.
| Di Yin had a good time though I think was a little frightened.
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Fort Canning has a spice garden. We spotted lots of plants including
pandan (which I hadn't seen before), laksa (which I didn't know was an
herb), nutmeg, cacao, and candlenut (which I hadn't heard of before).
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| Lunch at Old Airport Road Hawker Centre
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| We ate lunch at the Old Airport Road Hawker Centre. This is a sample
shot of the centre and of a long line to an award-winning prawn mee
stand.
| The aforementioned prawn mee and a dragonfruit juice.
| An award-winning chee cheung fun stand.
| My prawn chee cheung fun, basically a rice noodle pancake wrapped
around prawns, with various spices and sauces.
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| Papaya milkshake.
| The end of a tasty banana fritter, from yet another award-winning stand.
We also bought a tapioca fritter from the same stand. I think I liked
this better (though Di Yin didn't like it at all).
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From an award-winning tofu pudding stand (with long lines the entire
time we were there--a surprising fact given how fast it is to take money
and hand someone a container), we tried the plain and the almond
flavors. Both were silky smooth. I liked the simplicity of the plain
one. The almond had a taste I didn't like (and didn't seem much like
almond).
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We also tried wonton soup and award-winning char kway teow.
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| Rural Singapore
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| A glimpse of a sleepy neighborhood, Kampong Lorong Buangkok, one of the
last remaining examples of rural Singapore.
| The view from Kampong Lorong Buangkok of public housing buildings
nearby.
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| Dinner on Orchard Road
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| We headed to Orchard Road for dinner. Here's the lit, futuristic,
rising-escalator entrance to a mall that didn't exist on our last visit.
| Our Hokkien prawn mee was still a great as when we
had it before. :)
The prawns are not an important part of this
dish. It's the flavor of the noodles that is great.
| My eggplant from a curry chicken rice stand had a good sauce.
| For dessert, Di Yin got a sweetened black glutinous rice soup. I tried
it and found it cool and refreshing.
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| Fodder for Fort Canning Steps Vertical Panorama
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