viv1082
San Francisco
Singapore (read all 2 entries…)
(in Asia)
Worth visiting!
Answers:
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Holland Village
Well, that’s the good thing about living here, though everything else seems expensive especially the housing, cars etc, but the yummy and CHEAP food actually make up for that high cost of living here ;) I really love the food here and so many choices and varieties! You basically can find food everywhere and quite a few places run 24 hours too!
I can check it up for you on the discount if you like, but no promise…She is an Indonesian Chinese who has a home in Singapore and her brothers were all educated here in Singapore too. She always look me up whenever she is coming back here :)
Regarding NEWTON CIRCUS, they have in fact shifted the old Newton Circus food place to another area, hehe, about 5 mins away :P.. The old place is undergoing some renovation now…
Ahem, there’s one thing about in Singapore, though no nasty pollution like other countries, but we do have 1 type of pollution here-which is “noise” pollution, because we are always renovating and building new landscape/shops :P ..Forever drilling and fixing things here :P
Even all our cars here are “NEW” looking because you have to scrape them after driving for 10 years..all for the sake of looking everything sparkling new and clean :P
Btw, didn’t realise it’s a “pain” to take a 5-10 mins walk or crossing, geez, you do sound like a typical Singaporean, though I do know that you are not one ;)
P.S. I don’t remember you telling where you are from? U.K?
zemble
Tokyo
The new/temporary Newton Circus is just as good for me (although I must admit, I have a problem with eating stingrays—it feels like eating the family pet). I’ll be interested to see just how ‘improved’ it is when the renovation finishes.
Does Newton Circus have BGM? I didn’t notice TBH. It made me smile when you mentioned noise pollution—Japan is far, far worse. Japanese people have a real fear of quiet. We just turned down the chance to move to a new flat here for that reason—the flat was fantastic, but the street outside had 24-hour piped background music of the ‘Hammond Organ’ variety. Newton is relaxing in comparison!
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Holland Village
Thanks for your “private” message,appreciate, hehe, so now I know that you have some “connection” with our Singaporean gal ;)
Glad you like our Newton Circus :)...Err, how can eating Stingray be comparable to eating a pet?? Who keeps Stingay as pet??... Ahem, eating Stingray is more than harmless ..as we don’t eat strange things like those in China or Korea(they eat DOG :((.. Esp china, they eat anything that “moves” :P
P.S. I love to eat the Stingray with plenty of hot, hot sambal chilli, the hotter the merrier, and go along with our Tiger Beer in NEWTON CIRCUS, can’t beat that heavenly feeling, yummy :P !
Ya, maybe it’s good idea that you didn’t pick that flat and not live near the “noise” polluted area..I live in the HDB flat in Holland Village area where it’s undergoing some upgrading for the whole area, including the park and the building itself…the project won’t end till end of the year..but now I’m so used to the noise and somehow it now become “music” to my ears when I wake up every morning!.. Hey, but not that kind of ‘Hammond Organ’ variety music you mentioned, I would hate that too ;)
Sorry, what’s BGM and TBH?
zemble
Tokyo
I’ve played (fondled?!) with the rays at Monterey Aquarium! It’s hard to see them as food…. they do go well with that chilli tho’!
BGM: Back-ground music
TBH: To be honest
Marrying Singaporeans is a way to lose taste buds—you end up being unable to taste anything lower than level 9 on the chilli scale.
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Holland Village
Hey, tell me about it ;)
Hahaha, you are funny!! Unable to taste anything lower than level 9 on the chilli scale huh? Ya it’s so true, eating spicy food is very much part of our cultures..can’t help it, we are surrounded with so many kinds of wonderful and spicy cuisine here, Malay, Indian, Thai, Indonesian, Peranakan, own local version etc..
Singaporeans in fact are easy to please when comes to food, we are quite adventurous kind of eater since we grew up having to try so many kinds of ethnic food…but there’s one thing we can be very particular, and that’s chilli sauce!! I had to bring along my own chilli sauce whenever I flew back home to Singapore when studied in the States! The chilli in the North America, esp in the U.S. is very lame, taste more like tomatoes ketchup to us :P
Hehe, no wonder you know so much about Singaporean culture… you are married to one! ;)
