Glutton's Bay and Durian!

On Friday night we headed to Gluttons Bay for dinner - it has all the best hawker stalls from around Singapore hand-selected by Makansutra (the street-food food guide). We met Jenna & Clark and Jeremy & Sarah (our new found friends from Singapore First Ward) and tried heaps of different foods… BBQ chicken wings, roti bread and chicken and lamb curries, deep fried mozzarella sticks, chicken and lamb satay… everything was so good! Plus, the location is right by the Esplanade - Theatres by the Bay which is Singapore's performing arts centre and the Singapore flyer and right on the water of the Singapore river.

After dinner and dessert, at about 11pm, we decided to try Durian... now, for those of you that don't know, Durian is a fruit that's very popular in Asia... it has a really pungent smell and unique taste... Even Andrew Zimmern from Lifestyle Channel's Bizarre foods couldn't eat it (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=75vm9ik5pjo) … perhaps we were motivated by the fact that the Esplanades by the Bay are shaped like a Durian…

It was a bit of a mission, but we jumped in some cabs to Chinatown and followed our noses to a local Durian vendor... Lehi tried it first, and did quite well really… going back for a second try.

Then I tried it, the first taste wasn't fantastic (as you can tell by my face in the picture), but it actually got sweeter the more of it you ate but left a strange oniony after taste for quite a long time afterwards…

Jeremy and Sarah tried it as well and while they didn't tolerate it quite as well as we did, they managed not to dry heave or spit it out… unlike Clark and Jenna! (I have not posted photos... or the videos of them!)

Jeremy and Sarah headed home not long after the Durian experience, but Clark and Jenna and Lehi and I continued exploring the Chinatown night markets where we also tried some Pomelo… they are basically massive grapefruits… it cost $4 just for a small one…

After a bit more exploring, we decided to call it a night around 1am… believe it or not we were still tasting Durian even after a 1am cheeseburger and brushing our teeth!