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Woke up bright and late this morning around 9am, and walked across the street with my hosts for breakfast at one of the "hawker markets". The place looks like an old-fashioned open-air street market, but every stall serves food. It has the feel of a similar market in Malaysia or Hong Kong. I get the feeling that people have been eating like this for centuries. We had roti prata with a mild curry-- roti prata is a flatbread that is somewhere between a tortilla and Indian naan. We also split three drinks: a soy drink that tasted like nothing I've ever had before, a black "grass jelly" drink, and the juices from a fresh coconut.

We lazed about for a few hours planning a trip to Malaysia, and then went out to do some shopping, eating a kind of Chinese uber-jerky called "bakkwa" and grabbing a bite to eat in the mall's food court. I had laksa, a kind of curry noodle. If you haven't figured it out yet, I love curry.

Many hours later found us in front of the Raffles Hotel, fanciest joint in all Singapore. We went up to the 2nd floor into the appropriately-named Long Bar where I enjoyed the eponymous Singapore Sling before meeting up with a pair of M&W's friends who are engaged. They and their family took us to a dim sum restaurant somewhere and we gorged ourselves. Got home about 11pm and now I'm just getting around to writing about it. It's 2am, I'm tired, and I'm going to bed. More later.