This time, we headed over to the marina part of downtown Singapore, where highrises are clustered and every other building is a bank. We walked along the pretty promenade along the Singapore River and past Raffles Hotel, which is home to the 'Singapore Sling' drink, though they cost about $9 here so we didn't indulge! There are construction projects underway all over the city, and we couldn't help but laugh at the name of a company on a truck - "Two Wongs Construction". We thought their slogan should be "Two Wongs will make it right!"
Late afternoon, we made our way back to Changi Airport and hopped on an Air Asia flight to Kuching, on the Malaysian side of the island of Borneo. Sounds exotic, doesn't it?! It was a bit of a free-for-all since Air Asia doesn't assign seats on the plane, but 90 minutes later we were on the ground in Malaysia. A quick cab ride later and we were pulling into a hostel right in the central part of Kuching, across the street from the big posh Hilton. For 80 Ringgit, or about $26, we got a private room for the night. We were starving now that it was almost midnight, so we took our chances at finding a food stall down at the riverbank promenade a block away. Success! We had no idea what we ordered from a little noodle cart, but we ended up with two types of wicked spicy Malaysian noodle dishes loaded with chicken and shrimp and just the right amount of chiles. Another blind order at the juice cart and we ended up with a big mug of cold lime juice and a big mug of warm vanilla soy milk that had been sweetened so much that it tasted like tapioca pudding! It was all awesome. Did I mention that the whole thing was $5? Malaysia rocks already, and we've only been here for an hour!
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