back to singapore
Back in Singapore and headed to Chinatown. When I went to Singapore, it was a few weeks before Chinese New Year so everywhere I went was nicely decorated for New Year. Chinatown was the best. Everything was red with the word 'spring' on it. Bought some souvenirs for family. Chinatown in Singapore is wonderful. No smell, not dirty, not too noisy. I've never been to Chinatown like that. Even Japan's Chinatown is smelly and dirty.
There was interesting food/snack in Chinatown called, tu tu kueh. Made from what? I don't know what's that whit thing but inside, they had coconut and peanut. That's my favorite!! My friends asked me if I had sugar cane juice, I said no so they said I should try so I did. WHAT WAS THAT? I thought I was drinking sweet grass!! It was so gross!! I felt really bad that I couldn't drink it up but it was just too gross.
After Chinatown, took a bus to Orchard rd. Chinese food for dinner. YAAAAY!! My favorite Chinese food, xiolongbao. This restaurant is the most popular ont they said. It's in Paragon mall, B1F, called 'Din Tai Fung'. We waited for 5 minutes. Holy cow! This place is HUGE!!!!! We ordered some dumplings and fried rice. Ohhh... I am HAPPY!!!!! Actually the taste is just like the one I always go in Nagoya. But still.. great!!
After dinner, we went to see Merlion. I have no idea why we walked!!!! We could take subway to get there. I was already tired. And actually they never told me where to go next so I was just following them.
Got to my hotel and said bye to them and went to my room. OOOPS! My new roommate was changing. haha!! When I saw him at noon, he was also changing. He said 'why you always come in when i'm changing!?' Why would I know!? We chatted a bit. He's married to Indonesian woman and was on his way back to Bali. Cool!! Right after he left, other roommate came back. Looked tired, again.
Today was just SO tired. Walking around the city and fell down, even lost my towel. I need a good sleep.
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Changed to this unique hostel. It's actually hotel/hostel. If you want to stay with your friends or family of two or three, they have private room just like hotels but also has dormitory rooms. My room was 3 bed room. With a tiny window, a big TV, a tall but thin locker so you can put everything in it with a key and a comfy bed. The bad thing was they had only one concent and it was under the bed, kind of hard to use. Especially for women who wants to use hairdryer. If someone was sleeping on this bed, you can't actually used it or you'll wake them up. When my roommate was sleeping, I used the one in a common room.
Every floor has common space with books and couches.W
When I went there, they had only 2 computers but I think they have now Wifi. Internet was $1 for 15 minutes or so and very slow. I prefer to use at the different places.
This is a hotel so they give you towels, toothbrush and toothpaste. And they clean your sheets everyday. They have laundry machine at the top of this building (outside). And they also have a nice balcony. You can get a tan, read, relax, drink at night.
They have a elevator but it's a very old style so that they always have some old man to help you out. You can use stairs if you are in a hurry :)
My room was very cheap. $17 per night for dormitory room.
If you take metro from airport, it's on the same line so you don't have to change. I think it was green line..
* A sad news about this hotel.. it's CLOSED so you can't stay here anymore.. so sad :(
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