Singapore 2009 Holiday Day 21

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Starbucks, United Square

With checkout at noon, breakfast was a quick one before going back to the room to finalise packing. I had a grande cafe latte with a peppery chicken puff. They were right in saying it was peppery. OCK wasn't open so this had to do.

MOS Burger, Bugis Junction

After checkout, we all headed to Bugis Junction to kill some time. For lunch, I went for a Spicy Teriyaki Chicken set as MOS Burger. It turned out to not be that spicy at all, and I didn't get my promotional fan either, so I should've ordered a normal teriyaki chicken burger. Oh well.

The Coffee Connoisseur, Bugis Junction

LWA wanted to try his wanky coffee from last time again, so we all sat down here and had a drink. I went for a nougat shake, and it tasted like they got a whole bunch of nougat sweets and blended it with icecream and milk. I even got a whole nut at the bottom which suggests they did just that. For close to $10 though, it wasn't worth it.

After light perusing, LWA bought a CD, Wagg bought Famous Amos to take back and CB headed to Citylink. The rest of us went back towards the hotel.

Swensens, United Square

We finally hit the Swensens near our hotel on the last day. Wanting to try something different again, I went for the banana split, which consisted of Neapolitan icecream, strawberry, chocolate and pineapple toppings, with banana and whipped cream. This was quite good actually, something that I would have again.

Popeyes Chicken, Changi Terminal 1 

With Burger King no longer at Terminal 1, the next choice was Popeyes. I ended up getting a 2 piece set, asking for Spicy. The chicken was not spicy at all. Quite a bit more greasy than Singaporean KFC too.

We met up with our two of our three CK cousins and chatted before we left for the departure gate. LWA then did his GST refund which took longer than expected, and we all rushed toward the gate as the screens said "Gate closing". Turns out we still had plenty of time though.

Qantas Plane Food

With so much food already eaten after lunch, I was not in the mood at all for dinner. I ended up choosing the pork, which was served in a creamy savoury sauce, peas, carrots and potato. I ate the hot meal, and gave my cheese, crackers and brownie to CB.

The End.

Singapore 2009 Holiday Day 20

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Toast Box, United Square

The day started off at Toast Box, where I bought a curry chicken with rice for breakfast. Not being a fan of barley, I ordered a Milo Dinosaur instead. The Dinosaur was OK, there was no milk in it though, just water. The curry chicken didn't disappoint and was super tasty.

We then headed to the SITEX expo, where there was a whole bunch of laptops for sale, along with other various electronics and computer bits. We stayed for a couple of hours, I ended up buying a 1.8" 160Gb HDD and caddy for SGD $85 and CK ended up with a new laptop.

Hawker Centre, Bedok Bus/MRT Interchange

After the expo, we headed back to Bedok so we could alight a bus we hadn't heard of to go to Lilliputt. Trying to eat quickly, Mum ordered some Tiong Bahru bao for everybody. I also had a lime juice which was very refreshing in a hot day.


We then caught a bus to go Lilliputt.We played a round of 18 holes and CB ended up winning. After mini golf, we then caught a taxi to Tampines to rellies.

Din Tai Fung, Tampines Mall

We arrived early and put in our request for a large table. By the time our rellies arrived, our table was just getting ready. Some of the things we had included:

Dumpling with soup in the middle. (pork)

Prawn omlette and some noodles.

Stirfried spinach.

A flat piece of pork.

Stirfried sprouty thingies

Some noodles which were slightly sour with peanut. I think their name was Dan Dan Noodles.

Prawn siew mai kind of thing. These had soup in the middle too.

Yam dumpling. It was OK, but the consistency of the yam was a bit funny.

Black sesame seed bao.

Layer cake. This tasted like bao dough, shaped into cake format.

Coffee Bean, Tampines Mall

After dinner, we headed towards a coffee shop for a chat. I had a chocolate ice drink which was pretty good.

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New Victory Restaurant Muslim Food, Bugis

This morning, Dad took us for a Roti Prata breakfast at a place which he ate at when he was younger. We disembarked at Lavender MRT and walked quite a distance down North Bridge Rd. Turns out this place was just behind Golden Landmark Hotel, which is close to Bugis MRT.

The roti bread was cooked with egg, which resulted in it being quite light and tasty. There was two accompanying curry sauces, one hot, one not quite. Both were tasty but the hotter one was definitely the best. I had one and a half serves before I couldn't eat anymore. Everyone ate (8 people) with a few drinks for about $23 SGD.

Afterwards, Mum and Dad bought some ikan bilis from a wholesale market at Bugis. They then headed off to the Chinese Gardens. LWA and I headed to Pagoda Street at Chinatown, as I wanted to buy hanging decorations and LWA wanted trinkets.

I ended up buying 5 wall hangings, and we then headed back towards the hotel. At United Square, LWA had Starbucks, we then looked through game store (which was finally open), and then I had a snack.

McDonalds, United Square


My lunch/snack ended up being a $2 McChicken. I was originally going to have a double cheeseburger but ended up with the salad option. This wasn't the freshest burger by a long shot.

Afterwards, i headed back to the hotel to start packing for the journey home. At 5:30, we met up again to head over to my cousin CK's place.

Old Chang Kee, Toa Payoh


Before going up to CK's flat, I had another snack to tide me over till dinner. Originally, I wanted a couple of chicken wings, but I didn't see any. So I had this Curry-O instead. After, I found the wings on the other side in a different warmer.

KFC, Toa Payoh


After quite a long chat, a few of the guys decided to go and grab dinner, which was KFC. In the end, I believe two family meals were purchased, one with original recipe, the other with a black pepper crust. The black pepper crust was hotter than Australian Hot and Spicy I thought, but the others didn't seem to think so. I much prefer Australian coleslaw as it is not sweet. Their popcorn chicken is weird. All in all, whilst Burger King and McDonalds is pretty similar between the two countries, KFC is vastly different.

I also ended up eating half a packet of longans, which CB brought along.

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A local Cantonese Roast House, United Square

The day started off at 10AM with a brunch at the local Cantonese roast house at United Square. I grabbed a savoury char siu and roast pork rice, whilst some of the others bought porridge or noodles instead. My brunch was OK, the roast pork was a little dry but it all went down well.

We then headed to Ang Mo Kio to check out the shopping centre. At The Coffee Bean, I had an Iced Latte before heading to the games shops.

I ended up buying 3 PS3 games (COD4 Modern Warfare, Scene It and Orange Box) for $130 odd, and 3 packs of 20 oil filter papers for about $2 each.

After Ang Mo Kio, we then headed to Marina Square to meet up with Arnee-ah and Carley-ah who checked into the Pan Pacific for the remainder of the holiday. We checked out their room, which turned out to be pretty swish, and then headed off for a light lunch as it was past 2:30PM.

Dim Sum stall, Marina Square food court

My light lunch consisted of two dishes from the dim sum stall at the top of Marina Square food court. I bought some pork spare ribs and chicken feet. CB also had extra soup from her meal so I had that too.

We then headed back to the hotel to relax until dinner with relatives.

Lotus Vegetarian Restaurant, Quality Hotel

We met up with our cousins, aunts and uncles for a steamboat dinner at a hotel restaurant close to where we were staying. We had two soups in our steamboat, a herbal stock and tom yum, which was quite hot. I had the following things:

Spring rolls, dumplings, prawns, mutton and various types of mushrooms.

A couple of more spring rolls, egg noodles and kway teow. The kway teow was quite good actually.

Chinese cabbage and bok choy.

Coffee icecream.

With some broth from the pot, I was quite full after eating four plates worth of food. I guess I probably ate more than four plates worth, due to the way steamboat operates, I know I ate some of other peoples additions.

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The Toast Box, United Square

The Toast Box was another place at United Square, near the hotel which was open for breakfast. Here, they do more traditional kopi tiam, along with laksa, mee rebus, mee siam and also curry, with the choice of rice or bread. I went for the rice option today ($5.80). I was quite impressed with the curry, with the sauce quite flavourful, and I received quite a few bits of potato and chicken. I was quite full by the end. I wasn't a big fan of the barley though.

After breakfast, LWA, CB and I headed to the Singapore Science Centre, to look at the various displays, but also the Body Works display in particular. The exhibits in this display are actually real humans who had donated their bodies for science when they died, and was actually very interesting. On the way out, I had a light snack to tide me over till the afternoon.

McDonalds, Singapore Science Centre - Jurong

I grabbed a quick snack, a $2 double cheeseburger with extra onion. Within about 4 bites, this was gone. The extra onion made it a little tastier. We then made our way back to the hotel to change before heading to Equinox for high tea.

Equinox High Tea, Swissotel The Stamford

High Tea at the Equinox ($45) starts at 3:30PM and runs until 5:00PM. We received a table right next to the window and started eating straightaway. I had the following:

Duck congee, with added condiments: fried shallot, spring onion and boiled peanuts. This was OK, the duck flavour was quite subtle.

Prawn wontons, roast chicken, har gow and some crumbed fish.

Kaya sandwich, smoked salmon bagel, tuna sandwich, more prawn wontons and crumbed fish.

Curry and roti bread, with some prawns from the thai noodle station.

Scones (with dried fruit inside) with vanilla cream and jam. The scones were very dry and brittle.

Choc mint ice cream. The ice cream was soft and creamy, and quite nice.

Finishing off with savouries, a few more prawn wontons, and a teriyaki chicken stick.

Slightly after 5:00PM, we headed back to the hotel and rested until our cousin Keith picked us up from the hotel. From here, he took us to PS Cafe, which is located near Dempsey Road. This cafe looked a little swish and we sat here for awhile and had desserts.

PS Cafe, Harding Road (near Dempsey Road)

Whilst the others had coffees and cocktails, I had the profiteroles ($16++), which consisted of choux pastry, icecream and a lot of chocolate sauce. There were 5 profiteroles in total, and to me, it was chocolate overkill. Especially since it was dark chocolate.

We then headed to Holland Village to have a look around. There wasn't a lot, mostly eateries, pubs and coffee shops, which we weren't interested in as we weren't hungry. But it was another thing to check off our list.

Afterwards, we were taken to Joo Chiat for durian, where there was a 24 hour durian shop. We had a few different types of durian, I tried the slightly bitter and sweet versions, with my personal preference being the sweet one. No photos as my phone died.

CB had mango instead, and the Indonesian mangoes did not disappoint. I also tried washing my hands with water in a durian shell and it did quite a good job of removing the durian smell from my fingers.

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KFC and Burger King, Velocity Mall

The morning started off with two breakfasts. I had a chicken porridge from KFC, along with a breakfast meal from Burger King (I forget the name). It was a roll with sausage, egg and salad, with little hash brown balls. These were all OK, with the porridge served way too hot to eat.

After breakfast, we headed to City Hall where we split and a group of us went back to Funan. We walked around for an hour before splitting again to meet later that afternoon.

Arneeah, Dad and I headed to Sim Lim. I bought another 1Gb of DDR1 laptop memory, whilst Arneeah was looking for two PS3 games. He eventually got told to jump off the first floor balcony as he aggravated the sales staff who tried to push their dodgy tactics and charge extra GST.

We then headed to a new shopping mall near Bugis where Arneeah found his games at a reasonable price. We also looked at a CD shop there before heading back to City Hall and then towards Marina Square. Once there, I had lunch:

McDonalds, Marina Square

I had a medium McSpicy meal with McWings. With chilli sauce, the fries and McWings went down well, and the McSpicy slid down with ease. Not long after finishing lunch, we met up with the others and progressed to the bowling alley.

We ended up waiting about half an hour before there were two lanes adjacent to each other to be free. We played two games. In both games, I needed to hit a reasonable amount of pins on the 10th frame but failed and choked both times.

Sakae Sushi, Marina Square 

With a group of 10, we were not seated next to the sushi train. Instead, we had to order from the menu, so I took the opportunity to have a bento set with hot tea.


I ended up ordering a deluxe bento set, which consisted of rice, miso, teriyaki salmon, tempura prawns. 

Swensens, Marina Square

After dinner, we walked around a little before heading to Swensens. Here, I went for the Durian Surprise. I didn't seem to get as many attap seeds as last time, but the durian icecream was still as good as ever.