Visiting Our Towns

Our first day in Singapore and we did what most Singaporeans seemed to do, we headed out to do some shopping! Right outside our hotel (Le Meridian) was a tailor shop that had some great choices in fabrics. Alby was quickly drawn in, and before we knew it he was getting measured for a pair of pants and shirts...with his order placed, we walked down to the subway station to take the train over to Chinatown.

The walk down to the station really let us get our first impression of Singapore. WOW! What a clean and well organized city! Here is the sign outside the station....notice they even spell out that you can't bring any durian into the station.

Chinatown was amazing! It was plopped right in the middle of the city, it was like we had entered a different country when we left the subway station. We had a great time shopping up and down the little roads. We grabbed lunch at this awesome dim sum place called Teahouse which was really a great find!! And after lunch we went to a famous bakery where we sampled some fresh hot egg tarts.

We had done so much shopping in Chinatown, we found ourselves needing to buy another carry-on suitcase just to bring everything back to Bangkok.

After dropping off our goodies, we headed over to Little India (get the title now?) Now Alby and I have often thought about what our children would look like, would they look Thai, more Indian, more Chinese....well right when we came out of the station we were confronted with our answer...they would be be CHINDIAN!!!
Well in Little India we got ourselves some fresh gulam juman off the street and ventured into Mustafa's...this mega shopping center that transported you to Bombay. While we looked at all the cheap deals, I was drawn to the CD and DVD section where they had great deals on all the newest Indian movies and cds :) We rushed out of the store when we realized we were getting late for our dinner reservation.

Dinner was set for a recommendation from my friend at work, Jenny, who grew up here in Singapore. We headed to 'No Sign Board Restaurant' for their famous chili crab. Alby and I are huge crab fans, and thought why not splurge and each get our own crab. Well when we ordered, the waitress thought we were nuts, so we scaled back and shared a crab. YUMM-O!! What a great dinner! After dinner Alby and I walked along the river until our feet really could not take anymore. We finished the night off with a Singapore Sling at the hotel bar!

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