Singapore–June 12, 2023

On a friend’s recommendation, I went to the Peranakan Museum. What is a Peranakan, you might ask? “In Singapore today, the term ‘Peranakan’ generally refers to a person of mixed Chinese and Malay/Indonesian heritage.”

Here are some pictures on the way there.

Staircase at the nearby School of the Arts

I do not think that word means what you think it means.

Wall at the School of the Arts

Museum exterior.

Now, on to the interior of the museum. It’s fairly small, and it’s well curated, but it didn’t do much for me, to be honest.

Closeup of one of the chair backs.

Some wall art near the museum:

It started raining a few minutes after I left, so I took shelter in a food court area at SMU (Singapore Management University, not Southern Methodist University) where I had a really great salad for S$6.00:

Chinatown

For a later meal, I went to the Chinatown Market Complex. I ended up at a stall that had one Michelin star, which, it appears, means “edible but undistinguished.”

From the one-star Michelin place

A sweet bun with BBQ pork interior

This just sounds like a weird dish.

Other views in the Chinatown area:

Signage

Gracious Commuting

OK, here’s more of Bag-Down Benny, Stand-Up Stacey, and their other companions, who are apparently part of some gracious commuting ad campaign.

Bird

I’ve seen several of these black birds with yellow beaks. I have no idea what kind of bird they are. Who do I look like? John Audubon? (Actually, I hope not. Turns out Audubon was a really awful person.)

Later: I think it’s a Javan Myna.