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| cooks making noodles at a nice restaurant and at a less nice restaurant. note the surgical masks in use in the kitchen of the nice restaurant. | |
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| maxwell road food court in chinatown. not surprisingly, singapore's chinatown is the cleanest chinatown i've ever seen. | |
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| fruits and jellies at one stand; chicken necks at another. | |
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| foodies. | |
we visited singapore to rendezvous with my brother sam and his wife for the first few days of june. singapore is a remarkably clean and orderly place; kind of a cross between manhattan and celebration, florida, and not necessarily in a good way. while there is a lot to see (including an excellent national museum), we were there for the food: singapore is filled with hawkers' food courts where you can hop from stall to stall and sample the cuisines of multiple cultures - chinese, malay, indian, indonesian and british. i'd read an article by calvin trillin in a 2007 issue of the new yorker about the food courts and had wanted to go ever since; it was worth the wait.
