Food Feast in Singapore

It's been quite a day... a day characterized by lots of eating...

We saw three different faces of Singapore today. First, we went down to Clarke Quay, which is the main drag along the water lined with restaurants and various bars. It felt like a bit of a Western tourist trap. We then went down to Chinatown. Here, we ate Black Pepper Crab and Sting Ray (yes, sting ray!), and bought a bunch of exotic fruit for dessert (including mangosteen and lychees). We then headed to Little India, walked through a couple of Indian markets and had some excellent and very cheap Indian food from some hawker stalls. Jeremy also ordered something called "Rojak," which he after the fact describes as "twice-fried hot dogs and fish sticks mixed." As you may imagine, he looooved it, and will most likely have to pop one, two, or three immodiums tomorrow (Correction: he already has).


Every gay man in Singapore loves Peter Jeffrey Adams. Weird? We think not... Explanation so that mom is not worried: every homosexual couple that passed us today checked Pete out for at least a solid 5 minutes. Pete would like to add that some girls have also been looking his way (as usual, Pete thinks that every girl in Singapore has, or is, checking him out at all times). Jeremy got hit on by a group of 4 Chinese girls today. Skinhead Jonas has mostly just been intimidating all the locals by looking truly badass at all times (no one is surprised).

Pete has been learning some Chinese and charming the shit out of the locals. Everyone loves the massive white monster throwing out a phrase or two in Mandarin. Jeremy and Pete walk around having scripted conversations in Chinese. When shopkeepers approach us Pete always says "bu-yao," which means "no, we don't want that." Jonas learned how to say dragonfruit in Chinese - "long fu guo." The dragonfruit juice was also pretty awesome. Jonas is pumped to learn that there are actually two types of dragonfruit. The Vietnamese version (which has always been his go-to) has white flesh, whereas the Malaysian variety has purple/pinkish flesh and is a bit sweeter.

One slight issue has come up. Jeremy cannot find his malaria pills! He thinks they're still in his car in my driveway in New Jersey. Either Jeremy will get serious malaria/dengue fever or he will find a nice place to purchase malaria pills OTC in Vietnam. The J Man fears neither man nor disease however, and he has no intent of backing down and stopping the trip. The adventure must go on. Luckily the doctor gave us a few extras so Pete and I will be sharing with him until we can get more in Vietnam.

Our flight out of Singapore to Phnom Penh is at lovely 6:45 AM, and our taxi will be coming to the hostel at 4:30... Hopefully we can get Pete's sleepy ass out of bed and drag him into the cab so we all make it to Cambodia...

Now we're going to check out the nightlife scene at Boat Quay on the waterfront. Hopefully we don't have too many Tigers and can still get up at 4 AM...

To be continued from Cambodia...