Saturday 27 February 2010

Land of Tesco's

So this wasn't ment to be my first thought for the blog, but there are Tesco's everywhere!
So we're back in Asia now. Started in Singapore which is an amazing city, it is clean, sparkly and has loads of fancy buildings, some colonial and some chinese. Singapore seems to be mainly a chinese city/state with the Chinese making up around 70%of the population. We stayed outside the centre, so our area wasn't so sparkly but was good fun. Whilst there we were proper tourists. We went on an open bus ride, up on the Singapore flyer (which aT 165M beats the London eye by 30m) and also on a boat ride. Singapore has shops galore- more than i think i have seen anywhere else.
Also it is ment to be the food capital of the area. Unfortunatly I think that I made some bad choices as my food wasn't that good. They have a thing for frogs, frog porridge, frog porridge with chilli, ginger frog porridge etc. I didn'[t have frog!
So I thought I'd have an icecream safe bet. NO what i thought was vanilla was DURIAN. AGGHHHHHHHHHH wondered why the ice cream man had a smirk.

We are now in Malaysia. Whata diference to Singapore. THis country is a muslim country and has a totally different vibe. There are a lot more indians here and also a lot of Eurasians due to the portugese infulence in the 15th centurary. This means that the arcitecture is really varied with ancient chinese temples next to HIndu temples turned into mosques. Again really impressive.
Have found the food here to be excellent- really good curries and noodles for breaky.
will up date soon promise.
woo hoo out of OZ

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