Singapore 3- Crabs

Today we had to back track a bit.

We had planned to go to the Treetops walking and then finishing at a country club to swim in the pool with one of Ilisha's good friends Shelby. Really upsetting, but Ilisha seems to have gotten sick with something, fever and dizzy.

Instead she sent me to Singapore National Museum. It was good - I understood why Daddy told me to go to Raffles to have gin sling. Sir Thomas Stamford Raffles discovered Singapore in 1892. Not sure about the gin sling. The opium problems was an interesting point. It was all very interactive, each person with a kindle of sorts, press the number and it tells the story of the area. Each picture is numbered to read the descriptions as well (no one peering over one another to try and see it). 

Though, when I first went, I didn't realise how big it actually was. By the time that I got to the war in 1940s I had a sudden feeling of that was enough. I couldn't take in any more and try to absorb it. So I basically walked through the rest and missed the independence era. 

That's okay though, as this evening I went out with Ilisha's younger brothers Harsha and Akash and her mother to the East Coast for sea food, which was incredibly educational. Not only is Sumati so kind, she is fascinating to listen to, knowledgable but opinionated. I loved it.

The food was so delicious. Though Harsha believes Singapore's national dish is chicken and rice, Sumati said people don't come to Singapore to eat it, they come to eat the crab. And that we did. 

We had black pepper crab then chili crab and then prawns pan fried in oats (cereal prawns) (which sounds weird but was delicious) all overlooking what is a beautiful night view, from all of the ships and tankers out at sea... I'd never seen so many in one place, there must have been over 50, all of them glowing. 

On the way back I learnt that the casinos in Singapore are what is bringing in so much money at the moment. Though they only opened two years ago, they are doing better than the 52 in Las Vegas combined. Isn't that amazing! Sumati puts it to the fact that Chinese/Asians in general love to gamble, it's in their blood. 

Now Ilisha doesn't look to good for tomorrow... I am so hoping she is better, but if not I will still go out in the afternoon, Harsha has promised to guide me.