Day 11 - Vivo City and the meat coma

Today, my brother in law offered to take me to Vivo city, which is across the bridge from Sentosa Island. It's a new shopping centre that is trying to compete with the highly popular and touristy Orchard Rd and Suntec City.

Well, by the looks of it, they weren't doing too well.....



We split up and went abouts our own shopping. We met up 2 hours later, ravenous for some food. There was a new Brazilian Restaurant opened there called Carnivore. We get a table and hit the buffet salad bar. You gotta get some vegetables into you before all the meat comes out:

My veggie plate - with Feijoada (Black bean, pork rib and sausage stew)

The meat hits the plate - Round 1 of many

We sat and gorged for an hour until my stomach was going to burst. We decided to spend another 2 hours shopping since we've covered less than 1/2 of the shopping centre. When we go meet up, I'm still stuffed like a Turkey.

We go and pick up my nephew again, and this time, he's ecstatic to see me. He literally throws himself into my arms and then runs off to grab his bag! Hehe.

We get home and my sister is cooking dinner. I honestly can't put anything in my mouth right now. Instead, I take a nice long long walk to Junction8 where I spend a few hours just walking around and around and around.

On my way back, I grabbed a heap of snacks and drinks for the family as I promised I'll bring something back. I also stopped by the local hawker centre and got a small bowl of yong tau fu noodle soup for dinner. Something nice and light and also low on meat.

Yong Tau Fu rice noodle soup

Day 3 - Last day in Singapore

It was a Monday morning, and luckily my oldest nephew and niece don't have school since its youth day. That meant I got to spend the day with them. After bumming at home all morning and playing with the kids, my sister took me to a local hong kong cafe since we were discussing our favourite hong kong food the night before. Well, I guess I should've been smarter to know that you can't get decent Hong Kong food in Singapore.

I was really craving a ham macaroni soup that I always get in HK. The only thing remotely close to it is their ham and egg instant noodle. They really advertise that its instant noodle, and that its a nissin brand. For $3.50, this is what I got:

It would've cost me like $2 to make that myself....Anyway, we ordered a whole bunch of other food to share amongst us.

Pork Chop Macaroni Soup with egg

Chee Chong Fun with egg

Horlicks toast

Salted fish fried rice

Butter and sugar toast

The food wasn't bad. I just didn't understand why almost everything had an egg.....Oh, and their butter and sugar toast was divine! It might be the fact that I rarely ever eat butter.

We took the kids home just in time for their piano lessons. My brother in law is also on holidays and kindly "volunteered" to look after the kids whilst my sister took me shopping. More like I took her shopping. So far I haven't bought anything from Singapore which even my Sister finds weird. Maybe its the start of my trip and I don't want to spend all my money, maybe theres nothing I like, or maybe I've just matured and grown out of the impulse shopping thing. Who knows? Anyway, my sister decided to book in a pedicure for the both of us. I've never had a pedicure before even though Cookiez keep telling me to go to the salon for one. It was just too hard to take time off work I guess.

Anyway, the minute we got to the salon, we were served hot green tea where we proceeded to soak our tired feet in hot lavendar bubble water, that contained slices of lemon and then sprinkled with rose petals. I sooooo wanted to take a photo of it...but that would just be WEIRD. Even for trigger happy me.

The rest of the pedicure took about 2 hours which involved foot massages, exfoliation of the feet and calves, a spa treatment for the calves then I had my nails painted with nail art. I'd post the photo up....but some people get a bit obsessive about toes around here, so I better not.

By the time we were finished, we were running late to pick up the youngest one from school, so we dashed home and picked up my brother in law and the 2 kids so we could pick up the youngest one on the way to dinner. Poor thing was the last kid there! But he said he knew we would come and get him.

Dinner was at a Brazillian restaurant. I've always meant to go to a Brazillian restaurant, but never had the chance. The thought of someone bringing freshly roasted/grilled meat on a skewer to your table and carving it infront of you really brings the carnivore out in me.

Vegetables to compliment the meat

Cheesy puffy things

Condiments

MMmmmMm Meat!!

I have never eaten so much meat in my life! But it was all sooooooo good! Especially the roasted top side of beef. Me and my brother in law devoured half of their supply. And their chicken hearts. Yes thats right, chicken hearts. Even as an asian I've never tried them before. They're quite firm to the bite and sooooo delicious. Even the kids couldn't stop eating it. Infact, we ate the entire skewer of chicken hearts. Thats about an entire farm of chicken....They also had the most delicious grilled pineapples! Again, we ate all their pineapple.....

After completely stuffing our faces, we headed home where I had a quick shower and packed my bags for my flight. I spent a good hour playing with the kids when it was time to send me to the airport. It was at this stage that my niece started and crying and didn't want me to leave. She started telling me how she's going to miss me so so much, and how much she loves me and doesn't want me to leave. Awwwww I love you too Jessie! This girl is such a sweetheart and it breaks my heart to leave everytime. Despite me promising her I will see her in August on my way back to Sydney, she wouldn't stop crying. Eventually we managed to calm her down and off I was to the airport. However, less than 5mins after leaving, my brother in laws phone rang. It was my niece wanting to speak to me again before I leave. Poor baby was crying on the phone telling me she misses me already. Awwwww I had tears in my eyes :~(

I got to the airport less than 30mins later where I grabbed my boarding pass for Singapore to Frankfurt. Unfortunately, my Alitalia flight wasn't open for me to check in yet. I was basically told that I will need to check in at the transfer counter when I get to Frankfurt.

And that, is the beginning of my 24hours of hell...