Testing our taste buds in Singapore

Blue eyes has never been to Singapore and we’ve talked about visiting the city country since it’s so close to Malaysia. It’s less than an hour flight and buses take about 6 hours. We decided on Tiger Airways as it was having a promotion for the days we wanted to travel – cost us only 100 euros for 2 persons!

While getting to Singapore is inexpensive, finding accommodation is another matter. Due to space constraint, hotels and hostels in this island are expensive, especially centrally located ones. The few hostels that I wanted to book ran out of rooms but I found out that we have some points on agoda.com that could be redeemed so I booked the Ibis Hotel instead. It wasn’t the cheapest option but it’s located in Bugis, opposite Sim Lim Square (where all the IT stuff could be found!) and within walking distance to the Bugis and Little India MRTs.

On the first day when we arrived, we took it real easy. We checked out the bar at the hotel and had our first Singapore Slings, followed by a lunch/dinner at the nearby Fatty’s restaurant. We didn’t do much for the rest of the evening as we were tired so we called it a night and headed to bed early.

The next day, we decided to head to Orchard to meet Jaime for brunch as well as to check out the picture hanging system at Takashimaya SC. Jaime brought us to Ippodo for some yummy Japanese ramen. It’s my second time there and I thoroughly enjoyed the food 🙂 Blue eyes survived using the chopsticks; in fact he’s getting very good at it!

After checking out the picture hanging system, we decided to rest and have a chat at Cedele. The girls had coffee while blue eyes chose a glass of white wine. We topped the drinks with a slice of walnut carrot cake and the devil’s chocolate cake – YUMS!

Since Jaime has a flight the next day, we parted ways soon after our coffee session. Blue eyes and I headed to Marina Bay to check out the latest addition to the high-rise landscape – the Marina Bay Sands – more about that in the next post.

For dinner, we made plans to meet Paula & Malek, whose wedding we attended in Manila couple of weeks ago. Paula’s working in Singapore and Malek has come to join her after the wedding. They brought us to Boon Tong Kee, a famous chain of chicken rice shop in Singapore. I must say, the chicken rice was quite good! Unfortunately they only serve the broiled chicken instead of the roasted ones, which is my favourite.

After dinner, we headed to Bugis for dessert. Malek knows this dessert place called Ah Chew Desserts, which is along a busy food street in Bugis. We chose different types of dessert and we agreed at the end of it that they were all very good 🙂

Our Singapore adventures so far have been eating and catching up with friends. Next up, we’re gonna head to Sentosa for some beach time and theme park!