My Faves from Giant Supermarket

All 10 items mentioned below come in under $50 in total. It's actually really reasonably priced.

Lexus Biscuits Vegetable flavor $2.60 for 10 individually wrapped portions. You can easily substitute a meal with these biscuit crackers. 

Rex Sambal Sotong $2.60, it only comes in the small cans. The sotong is soo unbelievably soft and juicy and the sambal sauce it comes in is soo delicious.

Marigold Fruit Jellies $1.65 for 2 individual portion sized cups, comes with tiny spoons. These pre-made jellies contain cut fruits and 2 types of soft and hard jellies in 1 cup.

Cadbury Milk Chocolate Bars $5.20, available in a wide range of flavors like cookies & cream etc. When it comes to milk chocolate nothing beats the classics, creamy & smooth flavor.

Allswell Golden Pear with Aloe Vera drink $2.65 for 1L. Like it says on the bottle, refreshing! Allswell also makes local drinks like water chestnut as well as salted juices like plum.

Samyang Chacharoni Instant Noodles $5.90 for 5 packets. This is the instant version of Korea's beloved Jjajang Mian or black bean noodles. Full of rich flavor and texture, really bouncy.

Woh Hup Abalone Sauce $3.95 a bottle. Some abalone or oyster sauces can be too rich and salty but this one is mild and sweet, ready to eat out of the bottle. Try drinking in a spoonful its the same as biting into an abalone.

Giant house brand frozen Samosas $4.65. It's the cheapest you can find and really yummy. It's also halal, most foodstuffs at Giant are halal.

CP Crispy Chicken $6.50, comes in regular and seasonal flavors like Korean Hot & Spicy. Boneless and addictive, I cannot stop eating this so it goes quickly.  

Double Pagoda Garlic Oil $3.40. Garlic oil is milder than raw garlic and goes with everything. Double Pagoda also makes chili oil, ginger oil, shallot oil, szechuan pepper oil and sesame oil.

Ramadan Bazaar

Ramadan Bazaar @ Geylang Serai...this place is huge with tents stretching out across roads, around hawker centers and surrounding one carpark.

This particular bazaar is famous for its more upmarket goods, an interior decorator or hobbyist will have lots of fun going through lace, crystals etc for the home.

Fancy Kueh Lapis too, available in familiar chocolate brand names as well. I think these will make great gifts for malay friends and neighbours.

I am here for the instagram trending foods that you cannot get anywhere else. You see these pics everywhere but which cafe/eatery actually sells it?

Extra long fries with purple sweet potato cheese cream. All the novelty foods tastes sweet like candy - potato candy, meat candy.




The classics like ramly burger, dendeng, chicken wings, kebabs are still around and really tasty I must say.

Familiar green envelops, ketupat decorations and fried snacks make this place festive for the ramadan period. Even fast breaking prayers piped in to all the stores add to the atmosphere.

My dinner of Indian tacos $7 and iced Marsala tea $4 completed this outing. The coconut cream used in these tacos remind me of suntan lotion, hope they didn't actually put that into these edibles.

The Geylang Serai Ramadan bazaar is located outside OneKM shopping center. 

Day Out @ S.E.A. Aquarium

Won this $100 RWS voucher from Walls Ice Cream, double treats! It's easy to get to RWS via public transport, just take the train to Harbourfront where Vivocity s.c. is located and take the Skytrain on the 3rd floor into Sentosa.

Sentosa ticketing counters outside the Skytrain station, where the Fun Pass and Islander Membership applications are at. There is also a Sentosa souvenir shop just next to the Skytrain as well.

But I couldn't use the RWS vouchers here, I can only use the vouchers at the ticketing counter directly outside S.E.A. Aquarium. Its $39 per person, no citizen discounts (available online) or bundle promotions (Mastercard).





S.E.A. Aquarium is located in the same building as Maritime Museum and Adventure Cove Waterpark, just outside the entrance is Royal Albatross where you can pay for a guided tour on deck or join in the dinner cruise.

Inside, its almost similar to the recently closed Underwater World.

The animals are more unusual and scary, at least to me.





Fresh seafood? The big edibles of lobsters, crabs and stingray made me hungry.

 The snack stations don't sell seafood, just sandwiches and corn-dogs.




At the end of the long walkway is this massive auditorium where everyone just parks themselves in front of the giant water tank. There is food, souvenirs and a mascot hanging around to take pictures with kids.





There is also Cat Cora Restaurant. Advanced reservations are required and the set lunch/dinner is fixed.

I like that its all seafood and the interiors are ocean themed.

I got a non-alcoholic mint mojito and milk tea. This restaurant is kinda small with I think 15 tables, it was packed from the time I arrived to the time I left.

At the exit I saw these pure black and pure white fishes, that's pretty unusual. I have never seen a pure white fish before.

More photo souvenirs at the exit.

Press-a-penny machines all around RWS.

On my way back, stopped at Vivocity for some window shopping and more raw fish!



Traditional Chinese Motifs have experienced a resurgence and when I saw Goldheart's BaoBei collection I wanted to cry, absolutely need to have at least one, maybe in the colourful friendship band instead of red. $150 to $950, there is only 1 necklace in the collection and its $550.

SK Jewellery is giving away a traditional Chinese wedding outfit with purchase of Si Dian Jin. Perfect for photo ops and traditional tea ceremony coz otherwise I wouldn't know where to get one.