The Good:

• Food. So much good food!! My particular favorites are the Hainan chicken and duck rice. So goooooodd. Another favourite of mine is the Kaya toast with the runny eggs on the side (with lots of soy sauce and pepper). Topped up with a cup of Kopi (traditional styled coffee), a great start to the day. I only had chili crab the weeks before my departure from Singapore and although I hate de-shelling with a passion, the Chili crabs are worth getting my hands dirty for. I had the chili crab at both Seafood Paradise and Long Beach (by the way Long Beach de-shells for you if you ask) … so yeah!
• Between the great people at work, the friendly bloggers based in Singapore and the amazing (and random) people Ive met on planes, the people I’ve seen and met  while in Singapore has made the experience here that much more amazing.
• Hot hot hot weather, all day, every day. Kind of nice.
• Lo Hei, was a strange and funny new experience for me.

The Bad:

• Things here are relatively more expensive than in Hong Kong. For example I went to UNIQULO the other day and the same pair of jeans were 20% more expensive than they were in Hong Kong (this might have something to do with the Singaporean dollar shooting up like crazy against the Hong Kong dollar, but lets not forget the 7% sales tax in Singapore as well).
• While some foods are tastier, I felt the variety was not as good as in Hong Kong, plus I’m not very good with spicy food :T
• Hot hot hot weather, all day, every day. Kind of  bad if you have to walk around outside for prolonged periods.

The Ugly:

• Starhub sucks

I wish I had time to write a more detailed post, but alas, I’m off to Hong Kong in 10 minutes and New York tomorrow, making a stop in Toronto, then heading back to Hong Kong again. So … lots of airport time, meaning more blog posts?

I was in Taiwan for a quick long weekend trip, it was pretty relaxing. Didn’t do anything special: ate alot, slept alot and free wifi in the hotel room!

As per my usual custom, I went out and tried alot of strange drinks:

• Ice cream beer floats : Ice cream is yummy and beer is not bad either. You would think putting those two together would be a good idea. It is not. Actually the beer was just really bad beer, maybe if it was in something a little more … fruity, it would totally work (I’m gonna have to try this).
• Asparagus juice: sounds bad but tastes pretty amazing (kind of tastes like sugar cane juice)
• Yogurt flavored green tea: uhh gross (apparently it tastes like Calpis, which I hate)
• Yogurt flavored lemon juice: uhhh gross x2

Other things that happened:

• Almost missed my flight (boarding was at like 7, flight was at 7:25. I didnt get to the airport until 7:18)
• Saw fireworks in mid-flight en route to Taipei
• Taipei 101
• Binge eating
• Night market
• Taxi driver felt up my friend
• Also, bought some stuff

The hilight for me was definitely the night market:

Full flickr set here:

We also stopped for dessert at a yoghurt place that just opened near the office.

Theres also a photo of me holding two plates of these… but I’m not going to post that

Edit: cant seem to be able to upload media from my phone atm.. I’ll do it later tonight when I get home

And yes, I finally got the Flickr photostream embeds working (it wont work, however, if you are reading this via an RSS reader like Google Reader or Facebook Notes)

What was I doing there? Nothing in particular I guess… I ate alot of food though! (note: I normally don’t take photos of food. Well I do, but I normally don’t take photos of food and put them up on the net. This time someone made a request so I’ll let it slide. You can find the food-only photos here)

This was my second breakfast of the day. Pineapple bun with a huge ass glob of butter.

Some half cooked eggs with soy sauce and some sort of slat mixture? It was actually quite good

It wasn’t all eating…

… I wandered around Orchard Rd, absolutely amazed at how much things had changed.

Apparently you can play air-guitar for money on the streets -_-; (well its better than sitting there and begging I guess?)

At the scene of the crime where an alien was murdered!

.. subway entrance o_o

Concluded the trip by eating a stingray! (it was quite good)

All in all, a short but satisfying trip!