Today we had a (relatively) quieter day – I was meeting up with a couple of my ex-students, L and M, who live in Singapore. They were in excellent spirits and happily wandered around with us for a few hours.
L has a bit of an obsession about Korea (I think there’s a male popstar involved), so she was very keen to take us to a Korean place for lunch. However, she had also heard that Rendezvous restaurant in the Central shopping centre near Clarke Quay was great too, so we went there. It was tasty – a bit of pick and mix where you choose your meats and vegies and it’s brought to you with a plate of rice. I had a yummy rendang curry, squid/cuttlefish and baked eggplant.
Have bubble tea, will travel
Next was back to the shopping strip of Orchard Rd. We had to go pick up orders from Far East Plaza, so the girls took us to some of their favourite Orchard Rd places, such as the *SCAPE mall where they have flea markets and young designers and stalls, and we HAD to have Bubble Tea (apparently the “real” stuff here will change your life). I’m not 100% sure about changing my life, but the ginger milk tea with pearls I had was pretty nice!
We waved goodbye to the girls at Far East Plaza, and picked up our orders without any dramas – a bit of a sigh of relief since we’re leaving tomorrow morning!
Chinatown
The evening was taken up with a stroll around the Chinatown markets, which were so much less crowded than when we were there on Saturday night! We all bought more trinkets and souvenirs, but surprisingly, none of us had bought shoes today!
Dinner was again at the Chinatown hawker centre, where we stuck to some of our favourites – sugarcane juice, pork rice dumplings and Haianese chicken rice.
A wonderful last night of the trip!
Two Weeks Away 