Gardens by the Bay

The entrance to Cloud Mountain is pretty spectacular - listen for the troup of Japanese schoolgirls as they ooh and ahh in the entrance just behind me...

The other video is the view of these buildings - and the rest of the Gardens - from a distance.

Durian "fruit"

OK - I put fruit in quotes above because this stuff doesn't taste like any fruit you can imagine. It is disgusting. (More here:  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Durian) And it's not only pungent, it's peristent. It's been several hours and I can still smell it. My great fear now is that I might still be smelling of Durian on the airplane...

Below is the rest of the fruit stall, which was very pleasant!

Dinner last night - Traditional Singaporean Chilli Crab! (yes, the spelling is correct: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chilli_crab)

I also had drunken prawns, who are literally submerged in an alcoholic sauce prior to cooking them. Apparently you can tell they are becoming drunk, and only after they are well and fully sauced do you then boil and eat them. Seems humane to me...

And for a vegetable, we had these perfectly cooked green beans with little teeny shrimp (the only reason that's not redundent is because we also had the jumbo prawns above...). You'll have to look very closely, but the little things that seem like maybe crushed peanuts, are actually tiny shrimp that are dried and salted and used for flavoring.

An evening in Little India

Happy Deepavali! 

It ended a few days ago, but the decorations are still up throughout Little India, and the streets remain crowded with vendors with Deepavali specials.

Dinner last night was a north Indian classic - chicken tikka masala, alloo gobi, mattar paneer, saffron rice and naan.  Yumm!

Singapore's Jurong Bird Park

This is a Cassowary.  The entire park is amazing, with a lot of direct interaction with birds, and tons of color.  When you add in the flowers - since park is basically in a jungle - it can be a bit of a sensory overload.  A few more pictures below...