Today is Stu’s birthday. We started the day with a birthday banner from Stephanie and Gabrielle, and moved on to cake toppers and anything else that highlighted Stu was the birthday boy. Everyone did so well – thank you all for coming to Singapore for his “cough cough” birthday (I’m not allowed to put down 50th).
We met my mum and dad and Dave and Joyce in China Town the main aim was to head to the Tintin Shop to have a look. Mum and Dad and Alison and Dennis were very generous and chipped in to buy Stu a collectable Tintin sculpture for his birthday. We will try and get it on the plane as part of our carry on when we come back through Singapore in a couple of weeks.
Mum had read about a Michelin starred chicken rice hawker stall in China Town called Liao Fan Hong Kong Soya Sauce Chicken Rice and I will say it was very delicious. I bought a box of custard tarts from a chinese bakery Down the road so that people could try the egg custard tarts – which we did while we had a drink at a little restaurant/bar on Pagoda Street.
I had my first ever reflexology massage in a shopping centre in China Town – I think at the end the old man tried to turn me into a pretzel he leant on my shoulder and tried to lift my opposite leg up to the shoulder he was leaning on.
Stu’s dinner was another experience of don’t believe what the touts tell you. We’ll leave it at that – mind you the food that I got wasn’t too bad, we wont talk about Stu’s baby octopus which was pretty inedible (deep fried very crunchy and didn’t taste like octopus).
We wandered along Boat Quay until we got to the Fullerton Hotel where we had some amazing cocktails to finish our night. We had missed happy hour by 10 minutes but their cocktails at the Post Bar were the same price as our hotel in Little India and pretty much a standard price around Singapore (outside of happy hour prices). Thank you again Alison for buying Stu his cocktail.
Singapore can be a cheap place to eat and drink (hawker centres) and expensive (kampong glam, boat quay) overall though we have had an amazing time. Tomorrow we go our seperate ways as Stu, Linsey, Craig and I head off to Thailand.
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