I was told that I'd come to Singapore at the best time of the year, ie. when the rains begin and cool things down. If that's the case, I don't think I'd cope well in the hot season! Even first thing in the morning, my camera was misting up as I tried to take photos, and after 30 minutes in the open I had to keep on taking refuge in one of the many air-conditioned shopping centres where Singaporeans can indulge in their 2 favourite pastimes of shopping and eating. There are so many centres that initially I thought that the numerous "S" symbols on the city map represented bus stops. Some of them are linked together by passageways, or via MRT stations, so you can cover quite a bit of the city centre without having to go outside!
I'm not much of a shopper, so instead I sampled the many food courts, opting mainly for Japanese and Chinese food (though on Sentosa I did have some yummy gnocchi with Tuscan sausage and sage, followed by a divine chocolate volcano pud, mmm). Homemade soba (thick buckwheat) noodles with tempura, "drunken chicken" (cold chicken marinated in alcohol) and hot pot (cooking your own meat and veg in a pot of boiling stock in the middle of the table) were all delicious! The hot pot was particularly fun - like campfire cooking, but without having to eat any reconstituted food or worry about the tent catching fire if you took your eye off the trangia for one moment (I'm not much of a camper either :)
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