Trip to Singapore - From Malaysia

Tamil Dhaba in Malaysia - Serve food on Banana leaf.
The place is just minutes away from the Singapore immigration checkpost.




Hello,

After completing the A Famosa resort visit at Malaka in Malaysia we took a bus ride to Singapore. On the way (a longish journey of over 3 hours) we stopped at a Tamil restaurant. Our dear friend Mr. Homi had informed us that we would be stopping over at a authentic Malaysian restaurant for our lunch and we will be served food on banana leaf. All of us were a little apprehensive as we did not have a very good experience with Malaysian food at the A Famosa resort and therefore it was a pleasnt surprise when we landed at a dhaba type croded restaurant serving typical Tamil food. Radhika was pleased and had her best meal of the tour. The food was really very tasty as it was typically Indian. I believe that till before this meal we were having food cooked in palm oil and maybe it was the first time we had food in a medium we were familiar to (I am not sure of this though).

The lady managing the show at the restaurant was speaking very good tamil (according to Radhika it was different from the tamil being spoken by the tamil Malaysians- she talked to her and it transpired that this still had links to chennai).

This restaurant is located almost at the border and soon we were at the checkpost. The immigration and checking was extremely efficient. One lady had a bad experience though: She was said that she has to do what told if she wants to enter the country of the woman who was handling the immigration counter.

The other Cox &Kings group was also there at the same time and in contrast with our group they were having a lot of tiffs amongst themselves and with their Tour Manager. Dr. Singh of our group had travelled from A Famosa till the check post in their bus and they were happy when they could be accommodated again in our bus after the checkpost.

The Singhs were simple people and their kids were well behaved.

The cleanliness is noticeable. Although Malaysia is equally green and efforts are made to keep it clean, the cleanliness of Singapore is sparkling.

I need to add though that this cleanliness also means that you do not even see a bird, leave aside an animal in the streets of Singapore.

The Singapore Hotel is the Grand Central. We meet KR our local guide for Singapore.

Best wishes,
Manoj

To be continued...