Orchids in the Garden
Singapore is THE place to see orchids. Even if you’re only picking up your luggage at the Singapore airport there is an orchid display on the midsection of the luggage carousels. And if […]
Category Archives: Singapore
WPC: Blurred Orchids
Singapore’s Botanical Garden had so many different orchids but my no-manual-controls camera was having a terrible time focusing that day. Afterwards we wandered through one of Singapore’s many malls and discovered […]
Floating Waterlilies in Singapore
Huge floating waterlily pads in a Singapore Botanical Garden pool. Word a Week Photograph Challenge: Float
Angular ‘Durian’ on Singapore’s Harbour
The Esplanade – Theatres on the Bay concert hall/theatre on Singapore Harbour is known locally as ‘The Durians’ because of the spiky angular surface, reminiscent of one of Asia’s favourite fruits. Durian, the fruit. ‘The […]
The Botanical Garden in Singapore
Here is one of my favourite gardens in the world: the Singapore Botanical Garden. Torch ginger. Crazy blooming bananas sprout forth from this rather ordinary banana palm. There was a […]
Review of Banana Leaf Restaurant – Malaysian Cuisine
One of my favourite places to drag our Vancouver visitors is to the Banana Leaf Restaurant. Richard, our latest visitor, has a Singaporean wife, and yearned for the food of […]
roti canai, a flaky flatbread from Malaysia
‘Roti canai’ is an unleavened bread, which may or may not be stuffed with various fillings from potatoes to bananas. We enjoyed it for breakfast, lunch and dinner in Malaysia […]
