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| Jackfruit |
When we come to Singapore and hang out here, we mostly eat at local hawker centres. There are any number of these. Singapore is filled with food.
But in addition to food, there are also shops selling everything you need to live well. I have never really gotten into branded shite and it is probably because I did most of my shopping in Town Centres. Neighbourhood shops which sold perfectly good, cheerful towels, shorts, pots and pans... you get the idea. But they also sell a mind boggling variety of fruit and there is probably nowhere in the world where you get a better variety of fruit than in Singapore.
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| Nagka |
Jackfruit recently has developed this reputation for tasting like chicken. Nothing taste less like chicken than jackfruit. The ripe fruit has a taste of its own and the unripe fruit, which is made into a curry, is just amazing. But it doesn't not taste like chicken, neither does it have the texture of chicken. It is ludicrous. My grandmother used to make a dish called nagka lemak - lemak means creamy, but made with coconut, or fat. So it means Creamy Jackfruit. Nangka Lemak sounds better, right?
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| Lychees |
Lychees are from China. But these lychees are huge and very sweet and really juicy. They have glossy dark brown seeds, which remind you of pebbles in a stream. The skin is the kind of skin which a baby dragon might have. The flesh, is all sorts of magical. I love lychees.
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| My dad buying some magoes |
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| Dragon fruit |
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| A walkway |
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| Coconuts |
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| Watermelons |
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| Money for the dead |
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| The front of the shop |
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| Seats for people hangout on |
There are many old people in Singapore now. You can really see it in neighbourhood centres where they gather for the morning.
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| The boys |
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| After eating, the pool |
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| Nasi lemak |
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