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| Misc
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| A short movie of a strong rainstorm that we watched from inside a mall.
Play it with sound to hear the rain coming down.
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| Late Afternoon Snack at Old Airport Road Hawker Centre
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| This drink stand won an award! It's for soursop juice. My juice was
made by an adorable old woman wearing entirely flower prints.
| According to this article, soursop juice is hard to find, and even among
the stalls that sell it, very few use the raw fruit as opposed to buying
processed pulp from a middleman.
By the way, the article implies the older woman who made my drink
might be the owner's mother.
| My soursop juice. Great! I love the pulpiness. It has lime seeds and
large soursop seeds. Di Yin says it tastes like pomelo without the
bitterness. There's a ton of pulp, some in giant masses. There's such
a mass, I'm glad they gave us a spoon.
| One (of the two) award-winning banana fritters booths.
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| Fried banana and fried green bean, both quite good. The green bean was
unsweetened, a nice contrast to the banana.
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Incidentally, the tofu pudding booth still has the same
couple-dozen-person line as last time!
| We bought food for a later light dinner in our hotel. I got stuff from
this award-winning noodle-wrapped steamed dumpling stand (soon kueh).
The noodle, by the way, looks and feels like a rice noodle, though
apparently also includes some tapioca flour.
| Our two types of soon kueh, both with bites taken of them to show their
insides. The shepherds purse one (left), which also had some green
onion stems and tiny brown dots of an unidentifiable spice, was fairly
good. The bamboo shoots one (the standard flavor) (right) needed some
jazz. I discovered one sauce they provided complemented it well: a
dark, thick, probably soy-based sauce, slightly sweetened (certainly
not hoisin or plum!) that I'd never seen before. Meanwhile, that sauce
didn't do anything for the sheperds purse dumplings. Also, I ignored
the standard hot-and-spicy also provided.
I took this picture later this night.
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| Old Airport Road
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| I love the way the residents of this public housing unit on Old Airport
Road let it all hang out. This isn't unusual in Singapore--one sees
tons of laundry on poles--but this looks different because these people
have balconies and hence plants, bikes, etc. In the end, I think it
just looks cool. Excellent. View the full-sized image.
| Another building in the same complex with similarly great details.
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