What’s for Dinner?!

To begin, Hawker Centers are AWESOME! It is a food court essentially with a variety of different cuisines. When we first arrived my husband and I at these most days of the week and it was very in expensive. You can get a full plate of food (regular size) for about $ 3.00 to 5.00 Sing which is about $ 2.40 to 4.00 US. Sometimes it is cheaper to eat out (or get it to go) then buying the food and making it yourself. There are some pictures below. Note: these Hawker Centers are everywhere. Oh, they do have a rating system as far as cleanliness; I haven’t seen anything below a ‘B’... I just stick with ‘A’ & ‘B.’

 

plate of food at a Hawker Center

 

 

drink from Hawker Center

avocado, coffee milk - protein drink!?

 

berry shake of some sort

 

take away meal

chicken & rice, green beans

Another meal at a Hawker Center
 

 



 

different view of the same plate of food in the first picture

 

Get this… KFC (Kentucky Fried Chicken) and McDonalds DELIVERS here! I have never been a big fan of McD’s, but that delivery thing I had to try again and again… I found things I like haha. When you get delivery, the people who deliver typically take a motorbike (haven’t seen a car delivery) and they wear insulated backpacks with your food. They have all sorts of compartments in it. Cool Huh. When you come here you may have to consider trying delivery. Haha.

 

picture from the internet of McDonald's delivery bikes

 

another picture from the internet of the delivery backpack they wear

 

There are some fun sit-down restaurants here too, can’t forget them. Ones by the water, some in random places and on the Ferris Wheel (guess that could be considered by the water). Anyways, I am still trying the restaurants here, so I will have another entry at a later date of my favorites. Till my next entry about I don’t know yet… have a blessed day.



Visitors

Hello Everyone!

Well, this entry is about the little visitors that ‘bless us with their presence.’

I came from Colorado to Singapore. Colorado has a dry climate and there are ants, spiders and other bugs that I feel I don't see very often… but Singapore I feel takes the cake. Being in Singapore there are a lot of bugs, Yuck! I am almost convinced that if I can keep our house clean then I can keep down the bug population. Or there is another option. In our house we have visitors and I am not talking about the bugs, although they do like the bugs and I am glad they do. We have lizards and I like when they come in our house, because they eat the unwanted bugs. Granted there have been several times I walk into a room, they scurry and I kind of scream. Haha. They just catch me off guard. When I find a new lizard I have this habit of naming them, who knows if I am naming the same one over and over and over… you get the point. I have a couple of pictures of a couple that I have gotten on camera.

This is Scampers (he Scampers off when you see him). He seems to enjoy hanging out in our hallway and in our room, hopefully he found some (if not all) bugs and spiders to eat! This is him scampering in our hallway. He’s about 3 inches in size.

 

Scampers in the hallway cruising along

 

Scampers in the hallway cruising along reaching a dead end

 

 

This little guy is Teensy (for Teensy Tiny Tim). He lives in our doorway and guards us from unwanted visitors (bugs). He is about an inch and a half long, hence the name.

 

 

Teensy chilling while I was cleaning

 

Teensy chilling while I was cleaning

 

Other visitors are not as friendly as the little lizards, we do have large ones that showed up when it was dry - didn’t rain for about 45 days, so they were coming out for water. Yikes… don’t worry we steered clear!

 

LARGE lizard - steer clear

 

 LARGE lizard - steer clear

 

Here are some of the monkeys. Yeah, when I first came here I was excited to live near monkeys… they are not so nice. One of the first days of us living here I took out our garbage to the trash bins outside of our house. I come inside and the next thing I know there is a monkey climbing on top of the trash bin, lifting the lid, opening garbage bags and throwing the unwanted items on the grass and street and then eating the desired items. What started as one monkey eventually turned into about 7. I stayed indoors yet again. Haha. Below are some photos of some silly monkeys. 

 

See example - They LOVE trash!!!!

 

Chillin

 

Hanging out

 

Well, that is enough about some of the visitors that have graced us with their presence. Hoped you enjoyed it and have a blessed day!!!