We spent just a few days in the island/city/nation of Singapore. It's a nice, shiny, clean, glass skyscraper, Cartier/Gucci pucci kind of place. It's so Western that it leaves one wondering "why leave home?" Maybe if we'd been roughing it in the jungle for weeks on end I would appreciate it but at the time, not so much. Though I did savor a veggie antipasti salad of roasted bell peppers, kalamatas, artichoke hearts, tomatoes and buffalo mozarella all drizzled with balsamic vinaigrette in a restaurant called Spageddi's. I can thank a brief rain storm en route to the botanical gardens for that impromptu stop. You can eat tasty rice and noodle based dishes all day long (and for dirt cheap) but veggies are harder to come by. But, alas, with much chagrin, I must report that
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