It's more expensive too, though. Zinger meal at KFC is 6.2 sd. (30 php/sd). +50 cents to have iced tea instead of softdrinks. It's a little different: no fries, instead you just have a small coleslaw and a small mashed potato. The zinger and coleslaw taste the same, but the mashed potato is more.. buttery. Maybe it's because they dump gravy on top of it before they serve it.
KFC serves lipton tea with a lemon wedge; it's a lot sweeter than I remember it to be. You'd be surprised; they don't seem to serve rice at KFC. Their 3pc chicken meal is also served with coleslaw and mashed potatoes. Which is weird, because you'd think that Singapore is asian enough to be a rice eating place, right? But actually it seems that it's a bit harder to get rice, and a lot easier to get noodles and dimsum.
Now I guess that is asian.
I see a lot of vending machines! More than in the philippines, anyway. Maybe it's because I work at the technopark at Alexandra road. I'm having a lot of fun dumping coins into the machine that serves cold tea (in cans). There's a great variety of tea drinks here, and I'm not just talking about apple vs lemon. I've had wintermelon tea, ginger-chrysanthemum tea, and white grape tea with aloe bits (I think it's natta, actually). 0.80c per can from the machine at our pantry, or 1.70 at the 7-11 or at a foodcourt.
It's actually a bit odd to think of cents as having value. The convenience of the peso is that you almost never care about fractional units. Half a singapore dollar can still get you some small snack. All these coins can add up. Three small one dollar coins is already equivalent to a hundred pesos. Things can get expensive if you don't learn to keep that in mind.
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I am arriving at work a lot earlier than I did in the Philippines! I am also sleeping a little later. Uh.. Dammit.
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Maybe everyone in singapore can speak english. The accent can be impenetrable sometimes, though. Everything is still vaguely chinese. Well, maybe that's not exactly true. Although most people are chinese, there's also a good number of indians, and malay-muslims walking around.
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I get to walk a lot here... probably because there are actual bus stops and taxi bays. street signs are obeyed here too! If the pedestrian sign is green, the cars will slow down for you! Amazing. Speaking of cars, they drive on the left side around here. It can be confusing on the sidewalk too. I tend to want be on the right, so I do a double take every time I get to a pair of escalators that seem reversed.
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Note: I am busy with work, so blog entiries will be delayed (more than usual).
