Chinatown

After a late start (we slept till 9:30am...and for us that is crazy!) we had a small breakfast at the hotel and then travelled by MRT train to Outram Park. From there we walked to Pinnacle at Duxton, a residential apartment complex with a 50th storey rooftop garden. Cost for admission was $6 each an you need a reusable MRT card to allow access. We had to pay the $6 in cash so after getting the money changed we paid and were off on the lift. It’s not super well known and it definitely looked like a side business (it’s run by the apartment management office and when we got there the guy said he was on the phone to a resident and we’d have to come back in 15 minutes). Anyway it was still good to see the views from the top. After that we walked down to Maxwell Food Centre to try the Michelin starred chicken rice from Tian Tian (made famous by the late Anthony Bourdain). $5 got us the most tender poached chicken breast with delicious rice and fiery chilli sauce. Yum! Definitely the best I’ve ever had. Was so hungry we didn’t take a photo. We also got some kway teow noodles to share ($4) and a lime juice and a pineapple juice ($3.80 for both). We then went next door to the City Gallery (free admission). Unfortunately the majority of the gallery was under reconstruction but I snapped a picture of a man working on the 1:43 city scape model. We headed back to the hotel for a little while to cool down and rest (B has a cold). At about 5:30pm we ventured down to Food Opera in ION Orchard for dinner. Beef noodle soup, 10 chicken satay sticks, 2 iced milos and 1 ice kachang (dessert) for approx $25. Everything was delicious, especially the satay sauce (not creamy like at home which is always good for me). We strolled back up to the hotel for a drink in the restaurant to finish off the day.Read more