china, india and arabia

jane showed me around the neat cultural neighborhoods in singapore.
it was like we went to china, india and arabia all in one afternoon!
i loved the bright buildings and shutters and the lanterns in chinatown.
see the laundry hanging out of the windows of that high rise?
we ate lunch at a hole in the wall place known for its homemade noodles.

jane’s husband blake showed us a pretty look-out point up a hill above chinatown.

we went in the buddhist temple right as a ceremony was beginning.

little india was equally as colorful as chinatown.
it was fun to find some things that reminded me of my time in india, like these flower stands:
 
we checked out a bustling wet market in little india. i love southeast asian fruit stands,
even though the extremely pungent durian smell is always pricking our noses!
it started raining right as we got to arab street – but teetered off just enough for a picture with the mosque!
arab street is full of textile shops. we admired the all the patterns as we strolled.
we had dinner on orchard road (kind of like singapore’s 5th avenue) with a group of jane’s friends.
it was so fun to meet them, and the dumplings and fried rice were fantastic!
our last singapore sightseeing stop was clarke quay along the river, all lit up and buzzing at night.
i loved seeing singapore as jane’s city!