All the yumminess from around Southeast Asia

Don't think I forgot to write about the food! There is so much delicious food around here, I decided to save it for one post (although I did write about the street food festival already).

This is LingZhi, a completely vegetarian Asian restaurant. Vickie and I were in heaven and managed to eat there twice (of course - without the meat eatin' men).

Everything was so delish! And they served shelled boiled peanuts as an appetizer with spicy chili sauce. 

In this picture, the top left corner is tofu stuffed eggplant hot pot that you eat over the buns. The right top is vegetarian braised duck. The bottom picture includes our appetizers- a tofu salad, dumplings, a vegetarian pork-stuffed bun, and the boiled peanuts. Vickie and I had to be rolled out if there- haha!

Our second trip included - top left- breaded edamame tofu (crispy on outside- silky on inside). Top right was our vegetarian satay and a casserole-type fish with cheese, cabbage, and wild yam (link to name). On the bottom are the fabulous boiled peanuts again.

This is my favorite food in Singapore (although above might rival it). This is from Spize. I have written about it before, but here's a quick description. They serve all types of food, but hands down one of the best dishes in Singapore is the murtabak. I get the vegetable one filled with carrots, okra, cauliflower, beans, potatos- all cooked in a fantastic sauce and wrapped in a delicious think pancake (sort of like a crepe). M gets the chicken and cheese one. Both come with a spicy curry sauce for dipping.  

The jucies are also fresh and amazing. I get lime (but you'll remember from past posts- it's not a US or Key lime- it's much smaller and sweeter). M gets carrot juice. 

Some random foods around Singapore - top left is Indian food from Little India. Top right is from a hawker stand in Vivo city - Thunder Tea Rice - it was really good. Bottom left is from a Vietnamese chain, and bottom right was Indian food for breakfast at Fraser Suites. 

This place is ridiculous and a chain in Singapore called Porn (yes- you read that right- it's not a typo. It is Thai food and as you can see, their logo is an elephant bottom and the catch phrase is sexy Thai food. Honestly, M and I weren't too impressed with the food.  

This was the crazy Indian restaurant in Little India, The Jungle Tandoor. It was probably the most touristy place and was coverd in decorations of safari- the servers even wore safari outfits. A little over-the-top, and we actually went their by mistake, which I know is hard to believe- as it is just as crazy from the outside. M thought the upstairs was a different restaurant that may have been connected. But it's all okay, because the food was good anyways!

Here are some yummy treats from our breakfast bar at Fusionopolis. The top is yellow watermelon. For some reason, I really loved it- it was slightly more flavorful and sweeter than red watermelon. 

The aloe vera yogurt was a pleasant surprise for me. They have drinks with aloe vera, and I have never been brace enough to try them- as I usually run aloe on my skin after a sunburn- haha! The yogurt had a pleasant taste- somewhat tangy and slightly flowery or herby. It's actually proving hard to describe. 

Last year, I tried to eat as much Asian food as I could...but wound up losing the taste for it the last week here and didnt eat it for 6 months back in the States. This time- we had a lot of western food- including Mexican, Italian, and pizza. These pictures are from the chain Senor Taco. I love how the placemat at the bottom tells you how to eat a taco- ahh Singapore (although Vickie and I had to ask how to eat some of the food at LingZhi...). The top is a picture of the "salsa." Actually Cafe Iguna and El Patio are better Mexican restaurants over here. Top left- trying to give you some idea of the prices- over $20 for a burrito!!

This is our desserts from 2am Dessert Bar- you guessed it- they serve dessert and cocktails until 2am. The desserts (and cocktails) are expensive- my pairing (a dessert and a Syrah) was $39.00 sing. They were pretty creative and delicious though.

Top left are Kevin's Bengiets - a little denser than the ones you would find in New Orleans, but nice. Top right was M's dessert and probably the most interesting of the four- they were flavored like popcorn but with the consistency of custard (we think). There was also an amazing mango sorbet as a pallet cleanser in between the salty and sweet "popcorn."

Up next, on the bottom left, we have my dessert (chocolate- of course!). It was chocolate mousse with a caramel center resting on chocolate "dirt." The sorbet on the side tasted exactly like gin. Last is Vickie's chocolate cake with vanilla ice cream. 

Kevin had a great time talking with the chef about scotch and even tried several ones he's never heard of- we were in agreement that the ...was great- nice and peaty. The chef treated us really great- and was from Chicago. 

 

These are some interesting foods that I saw around Singapore. The top left are ready-made sausages from 7-11. The top right is a mashed potato machine!!! A mashed potato machine (like a frozen yogurt machine) - also 7-11.  The bottom left are some fun flavors of Lays potato chips -swiss cheese, seaweed, and basil chicken Doritos. The bottom right are actually Auntie Anne's pretzels except with fun Asian flavors like seaweed and sweet chili. I didn't get to try one- I should have though. 

These are some of our foods from Cambodia. Anchor was the Cambodian beer. The top right is some sort of meat dish. The bottom left was the veggie dish Vickie and I split, and the bottom left is how they wrapped up our sandwiches for our picnic - in a banana leaf :)

I think I posted this already, but this was our dinner from the hotel in Cambodia - The Sojourn.  The top left is our wine being chilled with a bouquet of flowers. Top right is Kevin's fancy dish (the prettiest), I think it was a shrimp dish. Bottom left is a veggie curry, and the bottom right are M's scallops.