Singapore - Day 5

The morning started with breakfast at the market we have been going to for the past 5 days. There are so many stores at the market that it is impossible to sample all the food in just 2 weeks. Breakfast is INTERESTING! We had "wan tong" (dumplings) noodles. However, since I only visit Singapore once in a blue moon, mom thought that I should try the wan tong noodle "special" It is dumplings noodles with an extra twist - chicken feet. This is DEFINITELY NOT Hannah's favorite from what I can recall. She just couldn't bare the thought of eating feet! In Singapore, chicken feet, which is commonly call the "Phoenix claw" is a local delicacy.

Wan tong noodles

Phoenix claws aka chicken feet

After breakfast, I was in charge of supervising the nephews - Kevin and Jared for their weekly piano lesson. I had lunch with my youngest sister after that. It was in Chinatown, and just mentioning the word "Chinatown" made Singapore temperature raise another 2 degree Celsius! It is VERY WARM in Chinatown due to the way the buildings are built around each other, and of course, due to the number of people packed in a small hawker center. It is the Lunar Mooncake festival next week, and Chinatown is even more crowded now.

If you can withstand the heat from the hawker center, it is definitely worth it. Food at the Chinatown hawker center are well-known to be cheap and delicious. We had Ipoh crayfish hor fun (white broad noodle) for lunch. There is really no word to describe this heavenly dish! The queue at this store was a 30-minutes wait! The Ipoh hor fun taste great with crystanmum tea in a can :)

Ipoh crayfish hor fun
with crystanmum tea in a can

After lunch, we decided to go for coffee so that we can talk in a quiet and comfortable environment. We found a modern-traditional coffee shop. It is a modern cafe which is renovated to look like a traditional coffee shop serving coffee, tea and other light snacks in traditional ways.

Traditional coffee

Dinner was a huge event with Alfred and Cheryl (his wife). We went to Whampoa hawker center. We ordered a couple of local dishes to sample - fried Hokkien noodle, satay bee hoon, rojak, wu-xiang (fried sausages and tofu) and again, sugar cane juice! Rojak is my favorite local food which is made of century-egg, tofu, cuttlefish, cucumber, pineapple and various other fruits and vegetables mixed in a sweet, spicy prawn sauce. Sesame seeds are then sprinkled on top of the mix to make this dish explode with tons of different tastes in your mouth! This rojak in Whampoa hawker center is so good that the international movie star, Chow Yun-fat frequent this store when he is in town.

Alfred and Cheryl

Wu xiang

Rojak

Satay bee hoon

Ended the night with my good friend, Jeffery with a beer at the local pub. We spend a great time recapturing the good, old memories, discussing the present and looking forward to the future...

Jeffery and I