Day 13: Singapore trip recap.
Currently on the plane to HK, where I stop for a few hours enroute to Toronto. I can't believe this trip went by so quickly. On the one hand, it feels like all I did was lounge about in B's hotel, wander malls, and eat out, but sitting down now to blog about everything I haven't written about yet, I realize how much I've gotten done on this trip.
Anyways, I think I left off blogging on Saturday 4 days ago, when Barbs friends were still with us. It wound up being a pretty chill day - we went to breakfast at Takashimaya, where among other things we enjoyed banana prata (a freshly made roti filled with bananas then fried) and kaya French toast (kaya being yummy coconut custard spread), which might be some of my favourite foods in Singapore, along with laksa. After a bit of wandering around we headed back to the hotel to rest up, we went to a fish spa at Kenko reflexology near the hotel. It was my second time, having gone the last time I was in Singapore, and it was kind of fun watching people try it for the first time. After getting your feet washed, you basically stick your legs into one of three pools, filled with different types of fish that way dead skin - one with really gentle little fish, one with these little aggressive ones (who provide the most exfoliation and are thus my fave), and then this pool with comparatively massive fish that creep me out. At the end of it, I think my feet felt softer, but I didn't check them before hand so it's hard to tell. They certainly look fabulous now, but that's more because they're freshly pedicured :)
Anyways, after that, B's friends headed out to the airport and B and I did tea at TWG at the ION Orchard. The coconut tea that I had was delicious, but the service was atrocious, to the point that I filed a complaint.
The next day B and I went to Sentosa to enjoy the beaches, since we weren't able to book a trip out of the country. We left the planning kind of late, which normally would have been ok, but everything was fully booked because since it was a holiday weekend (Vesak day). The beaches at Sentosa were pretty nice - super clean, accessible by MRT and then a shuttle, and pretty spacious. Some of them have weird views of the container ships going past into the harbour, but B and I went to this little cove where the beach faced the supposed southern most point of continental Asia.
Monday and Tuesday were pretty chill. Monday we met with B's realtor. Her name is Caron, and she's awesome - though the market here is messed up. It's insanely expensive, and also moves super quickly. We also visited Little India stopping by Mustafa's, this massive store complex. It sells pretty much everything and has awesome bargains, and is particularly well known for it's tech stuff. We had dinner with our cousin at a mall nearby where we ate at this Japanese/Italian place (as in a Japanese interpretation of Italian food) that I loved because it had refillable coke, in addition to an all you can drink coffee station.
Tuesday, B and I checked put the high tea at the Rose Veranda at the Shangrila, which was fantastic and more than made up for our crappy experience at TWG. They even served TWG teas - not the coconut one i liked, but there were 128 other teas yo choose from. There are two prices - for about 40 you just choose one tea to enjoy, and then for an extra 10 you can try as many of the teas as you want. They bring the tea to you perfectly brewed and strained, either hot in a pot, or iced in this massive glass.
It was one of those all you can eat tea buffets, and had sooo much good food. My faves were this shrimp and avocado salad served in cocktail glasses, the yummy roast beef, and the entirety of the dessert bar, especially the yummy scones and the chocolate fountain. Ooo, and the bread pudding.
B went back to work, then we met back up for a quick dinner at Orchard before checking out chinatown - which interestingly includes the oldest Hindu temple in Singapore. I was hoping to catch some Vesak day celebrations, but apparently they all mainly happen in the morning.
Today we met with B's realtor again in the morning, and ended up closing on a place before lunch. Though finding a place to live while I was still around to help with the decision and also to figure out what would need to be shipped from Canada was always the plan, it seems incredible that we actually did it. Especially since all the action pretty much happened at the very last minute.
Anyways, those are pretty much the highlights of the past few days. All that's left of my trip now is a few hours in the Hong Kong airport, where I'll try to get the papers I've been meaning to do all week done, and then the final stretch home. Fingers crossed for another upgrade :)
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Posting from HKIA. All three lounges are closed till later in the morning, but I managed to catch one that still had staff in it, and they packed me a little snack bag to tide me over. And there's a new mcCafe that's opened since last summer that's still open.
Currently on the plane to HK, where I stop for a few hours enroute to Toronto. I can't believe this trip went by so quickly. On the one hand, it feels like all I did was lounge about in B's hotel, wander malls, and eat out, but sitting down now to blog about everything I haven't written about yet, I realize how much I've gotten done on this trip.
Anyways, I think I left off blogging on Saturday 4 days ago, when Barbs friends were still with us. It wound up being a pretty chill day - we went to breakfast at Takashimaya, where among other things we enjoyed banana prata (a freshly made roti filled with bananas then fried) and kaya French toast (kaya being yummy coconut custard spread), which might be some of my favourite foods in Singapore, along with laksa. After a bit of wandering around we headed back to the hotel to rest up, we went to a fish spa at Kenko reflexology near the hotel. It was my second time, having gone the last time I was in Singapore, and it was kind of fun watching people try it for the first time. After getting your feet washed, you basically stick your legs into one of three pools, filled with different types of fish that way dead skin - one with really gentle little fish, one with these little aggressive ones (who provide the most exfoliation and are thus my fave), and then this pool with comparatively massive fish that creep me out. At the end of it, I think my feet felt softer, but I didn't check them before hand so it's hard to tell. They certainly look fabulous now, but that's more because they're freshly pedicured :)
Anyways, after that, B's friends headed out to the airport and B and I did tea at TWG at the ION Orchard. The coconut tea that I had was delicious, but the service was atrocious, to the point that I filed a complaint.
The next day B and I went to Sentosa to enjoy the beaches, since we weren't able to book a trip out of the country. We left the planning kind of late, which normally would have been ok, but everything was fully booked because since it was a holiday weekend (Vesak day). The beaches at Sentosa were pretty nice - super clean, accessible by MRT and then a shuttle, and pretty spacious. Some of them have weird views of the container ships going past into the harbour, but B and I went to this little cove where the beach faced the supposed southern most point of continental Asia.
Monday and Tuesday were pretty chill. Monday we met with B's realtor. Her name is Caron, and she's awesome - though the market here is messed up. It's insanely expensive, and also moves super quickly. We also visited Little India stopping by Mustafa's, this massive store complex. It sells pretty much everything and has awesome bargains, and is particularly well known for it's tech stuff. We had dinner with our cousin at a mall nearby where we ate at this Japanese/Italian place (as in a Japanese interpretation of Italian food) that I loved because it had refillable coke, in addition to an all you can drink coffee station.
Tuesday, B and I checked put the high tea at the Rose Veranda at the Shangrila, which was fantastic and more than made up for our crappy experience at TWG. They even served TWG teas - not the coconut one i liked, but there were 128 other teas yo choose from. There are two prices - for about 40 you just choose one tea to enjoy, and then for an extra 10 you can try as many of the teas as you want. They bring the tea to you perfectly brewed and strained, either hot in a pot, or iced in this massive glass.
It was one of those all you can eat tea buffets, and had sooo much good food. My faves were this shrimp and avocado salad served in cocktail glasses, the yummy roast beef, and the entirety of the dessert bar, especially the yummy scones and the chocolate fountain. Ooo, and the bread pudding.
B went back to work, then we met back up for a quick dinner at Orchard before checking out chinatown - which interestingly includes the oldest Hindu temple in Singapore. I was hoping to catch some Vesak day celebrations, but apparently they all mainly happen in the morning.
Today we met with B's realtor again in the morning, and ended up closing on a place before lunch. Though finding a place to live while I was still around to help with the decision and also to figure out what would need to be shipped from Canada was always the plan, it seems incredible that we actually did it. Especially since all the action pretty much happened at the very last minute.
Anyways, those are pretty much the highlights of the past few days. All that's left of my trip now is a few hours in the Hong Kong airport, where I'll try to get the papers I've been meaning to do all week done, and then the final stretch home. Fingers crossed for another upgrade :)
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Posting from HKIA. All three lounges are closed till later in the morning, but I managed to catch one that still had staff in it, and they packed me a little snack bag to tide me over. And there's a new mcCafe that's opened since last summer that's still open.
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