Since hearing about other people shopping, mostly is just as interesting as reading that Paris Hilton’s got a new dog (oh, that actually made headlines not long ago). However, shopping in Asia almost seem to be considered a sport. In addition, Jonas hasn’t really had time to get new clothes since we came here, so we decided to devote the entire weekend finding nice shirts, new sandals and T-shirts for him. I hence started the weekend with a nice lunch with my friend at the big shopping center Wisma Ataria, which is combined with the Japanese Takashimaya and local Ion shopping center on Orchard road, to do some digging for the next day.
Entrance to Ion at Orchard
I also ended up a in a Japanese house ware sale
On the way back to Springbloom, I passed Mustafa center which I’d heard had everything. This was true.
One of the lanes with spices; I think it must be around 1000 different kinds
It was lanes after lanes on floor after floor with clothes, electronics, spices, gold, vegetables, plastic containers, cleaning equipment, oil, flowers, rice, perfume, candy etc etc etc.. Leaving Japan I was actually worried about not having the same selection of goods in Singapore. I can just say that with places like Mustafa center in the pic, there’s actually more to choose from.
Part of the selection of rice; I just wanted white or brown..
At the food section, I seriously didn’t know half of the stuff. I hence cornered several different women in saris (they looked like they knew what they were doing), asking them ‘what is this?’, ‘how do you cook it?’, ‘what does it go with?’ and so on. In the end I had a small fan club at each section wishing me luck and giving me recipes, even waving when I passed. Truly friendly people!
Am still not entirely sure what this is, but one of the women said I could fry it. Probably have some googling to do ;)
I’ve never seen baby peppers before and they are really good!
A full tray of PEALED garlic cloves was just over a dollar; amazing prices
And then I found olives.. For those of you who know me well, no need to say that we currently have green and black olives marinating everywhere ;)
Black olives with oregano and garlic + green ones with lemon and rosmarin; all are topped up with olive oil, salt and pepper
What I thought were beans, lentils and peas were actually peas, beans and lentils.. I think.. Or something like that..
The Saturday was spent working on Jonas’ tan, so we had breakfast and a few hours by the pool.
J by the pool; the tan is coming along slowly but surely as it should
Then we plunged in to Wisma Ataria, went on to Takashimaya and finally Ion, with a quick pit stop at Food Republic for outstanding red and green chicken curry. It was so spicy that I almost lost a contact in my meal, since I was literally sweating on my eyeballs.
Taking a break in between dishes at the Thai restaurant
At 21.30 and after almost eight hours we stumbled in to Din Mae Fung with several bags full of men’s clothing. We had really great food and were disturbing the peace by giggling loudly of tiredness, that we got the evil eye of several of the guests and waiters. This made us giggle even more.
Jonas with a great noodle dish
The next day, we of course also had to fully check out our local shopping mall NEX for male stuff. Walking there I was really fascinated by how clean it was at our neighbor HDB:s (government owned houses) ground floors. This would have been sprayed with tags and outstanding language in Sweden. Here walls are clean or covered by neat paintings in bright colors sponsored by different businesses.
The clean house bases of the HDB:s
Nice motif on a designated wall
Since it’s of course only me who’s food sensitive (bulls***), we started off by having brunch.
Dry dumplings with soup on the side and soy sauce with fresh ginger at NEX
We then finally found sandals for Jonas in his size which has been rather troublesome. He however got two very nice pairs, so he actually now has three pairs in total (I have seven). We then saw the coolest shoes [besides the Converse model in Tokyo with a proper ‘camel toe’ ;)], which have been around for a while, but I haven’t spotted them in a store before. I think they are amazing.
Toe running shoes
To not entirely devote the weekend to the penis population in our relationship, I also got a manicure and pedicure with ‘gold nails’ to my new ‘gold’ sandals. I further invested in three new nail polishes in ‘kiwi’ and ‘cherry’, just because it sounded so nice and summery. It doesn't really get more girlish than that.
Dinner at Food Junction on the 4th floor in NEX
We then went for Chinese dinner at Food Junction, which was followed by the movies with The Rise of the Planet of the Apes. It was actually surprisingly good, although the main ape reminded a bit about a former colleague.
J was also very happy about the drain cleaner; after ten years together, I'm still surprised regarding some of the things which put a smile on his face ;)
The next goal is to take Jonas to Mustafa center. That’ll be very interesting and I pray we get out of there alive.
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