I bade farewell to two dear friends last night. As Shakespeare once wrote, goodbyes are such sweet sorrows. These two globetrotters doing this HK-Sydney-SG-HK-India-London kinda thing. They’ve been shuttling between these places several times, and god knows whatever cities, in the past couple of months that I can’t quite keep up. So really, that chain I just drew doesn’t quite give the whole picture.
While they were here, we went to the Botanic Gardens and visited the National Orchid Garden within it. Believe it or not, visiting the National Orchid Garden was also a first for me. It’s a really lovely place though. Lots of pretty orchids. After we were done with the orchids, I thought of going to Halia for lunch. But upon looking at the menu, decided it wasn’t too interesting when it came to local flavours. So I thought of something better–I brought them to Samy’s Curry Restaurant at the Singapore Civil Service Club tucked away along Dempsey Road which is a short walk away from the Botanic Gardens.
We had a yummy banana leaf curry lunch with cooling lime juice for drinks. We then walked around the surrounding area and had a look at the furniture shops which peppered the area. Then it was off to Orchard Road for a bit of shopping.
For dinner on Sunday, we went to the No Signboard Restaurant at the Esplanade as one of my friends hadn’t tried Singapore’s famous Fried Chilli Crabs before. So we had that dish, and I also introduced a dish to them which they hadn’t tried before–Fried Cereal Prawns. I’m glad to report they enjoyed their dinner.
Dinner last night was at Soup Restaurant along Smith Street, Chinatown. We went for the set meal which included a soup, garlic prawns, mushroom with broccoli, stir-fried San Yu fish slices, the famous ginger chicken, and dessert. After dinner, we walked along Ann Siang Road and Erskine Road where many new and hip shops have opened recently. Pretty interesting and it’s worth a browse. After-dinner drinks was at IndoChine along Club Street.
And then we said goodbye and I promised to visit them in London sometime where they would be based for quite a fair bit of time. I hear London calling!!!