Food, glorious food.

We love food, especially the curries in Singapore.   Singaporeans seek out the European type restaurants when they wish to eat out, and there are certainly plenty of foreign restaurants.   And all the chains are here, especially McDonalds.    But we prefer to eat local food, and it is much cheaper.   

The eating areas, once situated out in the open air, are now in food halls in the basement or at the top of the big shopping centres.   We are impressed with the variety and quality of the food, and also notice that fusion foods, i.e. a combination of different pacific rim cultures.    Yesterday I ordered fried rice with some delicious looking vegetables at a Chinese stall and they asked if I would like some curry juice with it.    I tentatively said 'yes' and it was delicious!    Walter had Malaysian curried chicken and potatoes from the same stall.

 Walter enjoying his murtabak (prata combined with mutton and onions) with his curry sauce.   I ate a plain prata with my curry juice.   Today we ate prata with egg and onions and curry sauce.   Simple but delicious!

One of the food halls.

I am sitting by a fountain, and getting ready to drink a very expensive cup of coffee.    Perhaps that is why my nose is red, or it could be the curry sauce.   Definitely not wine inflicted.   The coffee cost $12 (£6).   However, the coffee we had at TGI Friday today cost $20 (£10).    The most expensive so far!     We really  are going to have curtail our coffee drinking.