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A Singaporean's guide to living in Thailand

Another good breakfast at hotel

Nasi lemak with fish curry
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Went to Jalan Alok for durian

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Beautiful durian patrons
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Black thorn and Musang King
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Durian chendol
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Friend brought us drive along Jalan Alor street food

 
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Visited the tallest building in Malaysia Merdeka 118 and too the lift from 105th floor to lower floor

 
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Last Friday went Caltex to top up the car

Gasoline is now $1.39 per litre while diesel is $1.25 per litre
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Filling up
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Finally paid $91 for 71.49L
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Chilling at an Isaan restaurant on Friday evening



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Grilled chicken
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Cabbage
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Deep fried somtam
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Raw crab somtam
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Hot claypot
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Meats
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So it was time to hit the road once again. This time round is to return home for private reason.

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At the Singapore Airline lounge for breakfast on Saturday.

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Inflight meal - meesiam

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Arrived Singapore had late lunch at Tanglin Halt Market

The famous wanton noodle stall
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Saturday evening had a very good dinner at Tiong Poh Road's Ting Hing Seafood restaurant

Sweet and sour pork ribs
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Stir fry lettuce
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Claypot liver with ginger
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Roast chicken
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Deep fried goby
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Yong Tau Fu
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Crispy Noodles
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Sunday went to my favourite fishball noodle stall at Mei Chin Market Food Centre

Long queue
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The stall
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Our breakfast
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My portion - dry meepok (flat yellow noodle)
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The lontong opposite the fishball noodle stall is very good

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Monday was a public holiday - Deepavali or Dewali. For breakfast we went to my favourite vegetarian beehoon (vermicelli) stall located at the Margaret Drive Food Centre

The refurbished market where I grew up in this area
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Opened in 1960 this market was visited by Queen Elizabeth II in 1972
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Queenstown market with its iconic metal roof
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There's always a queue at this stall
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Breakfast for two
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The $5.50 breakfast
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Can't wait to go back again for this
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This morning breakfast at a local Thai market near home



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2 big soft boiled eggs and 1 kopi-O, the Chinese tea comes free as a standard whenever you order a hot drink total costs $1.40 (35 baht)
 
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Coming back to Singapore.

Took a walk to the Tanglin Halt market



Had breakfast at my favourite prata stall

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On Deepavali went for lunch at a famous prawn noodle shop at East Coast road

Very long queue but it moves fast
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The shop
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The prawn noodle stall
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The ngoh hiang stall next to each other
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Out lunch
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Prawn noodle is so delicious
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Ngoh hiang, really like the pink sauce, very old school
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Deepavali dinner at Holy Crab at Capitol with some Thai colleagues

While waiting for the rest to arrive we started with come bites, SPAM
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Grill octopus
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Crispy pork belly
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Corn with salted eggs
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Main courses starts - Crab of course, this is one and a half kilogram monster

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With fried buns of course
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Steamed broccoli
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Marble goby soup
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Claypot rice with lots of yummy crispy lard
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Burnt vermicelli
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That was a very good dinner
 
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On the last day in Singapore on Wednesday, went to Tiong Bahru Market for breakfast



Lormee stall
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Lormee
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Chwee Kueh stall
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Chwee kueh
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A wonderful breakfast before going home
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On the way to the airport my friend who was sending me stopped by the East Coast hawker centre to have bak kut teh



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Pork leg
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Bak kut teh
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Mix
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Liver soup
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Last time I eaten this there was more that 20 years ago when the original ower was still there now the son took over. Standard seem to have gone down.
 
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On the way home I had one of the best flight meals -

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Basmati rice with lamb curry and daal
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The roti
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Rice and lamb and daal (lamb was so tender)
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Indian dessert
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Coming back from Singapore that weekend here still craving for Nasi Lemak so gotto cook it



I think I over did it
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The nasi lemak rice
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Kambong fish which we call it pla-tu
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Otah which we call it hormuk here
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Kambing rendang, lamb dry curry
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Sambal goreng
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Lontong
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This is lunch
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