The Peranakan Museum

Singapore - Just a short walk down the street, I came across The Peranakan Museum located @ 39 Armenian Street.  After registering, I was asked by the front desk whether I would like to go on a guided tour and I was the only person on this tour.   After about 20 minutes, a Singaporean couple join the tour.

I am a Peranakan and both my parents are Peranakan too.   From young, my parents spoke Malay to my grand parents and relatives.   Walking through this museum brought back fond memories but some of the old traditions are no longer practice by my family.

Beaded table cloth

Wedding gifts

These are the wedding exchange gifts for the bride and groom families.   A pig trotters too is given my the groom family plus jewelry and many more.

Hair combing session

The wedding bed

Unfortunately, I have to cut short the guided tour to pick up my son.  This is one museum all visitors to Singapore should go to.

Singapore Philatelic Museum

Singapore - After dropping off my son @ church I had some time to kill, and decided to walk around Singapore Civic district and came across this big sign that caught my attention ' Free admission for Singapore citizen and PR" for all national museum.  

The Singapore Philatelic Museum is a museum about stamps, situated @ 23-B Coleman Street and houses almost 200 years of Singapore's past in stamps.

Singapore Post scooter

Hello Kitty stamp collection

Heritage room stamps

Letter Box

Singapore Pre WW2 letter boxes

It was a small museum and took me about 30 minutes to view most of the major exhibits.

Shwe Sa Bwe restaurant

Yangon - This restaurant was ranked #1 on TripAdvisor and so I must give it a try.   We arrived on time for our 7.30pm booking.  It's not far from our hotel and also sits on the north shore of the Inya Lake.

Walking through the restaurant gives you a British colonial feeling, a beautifully decorated mansion and is one of the best fine dining in Yangon.   It has a catering training school  and was started as a social enterprise by a French expat Francois Stoupan.   Only a small intake of 22 students graduate per year and they come from all over Myanmar most from disadvantage backgrounds.

Dinner is from set meals of two or three courses.  We choose the 3 course meals.

Kawauchi and me

Salad

My first course was so beautifully and painstaking decorated like a fine artist. The vegetables are nicely placed on a cut out ring of watermelon.

Veal 

The veal was nicely done - rare in the middle and succulent.   Yummy....

Desert

This is art by passionate to be chefs.   The brown crust is meringue crisp and within is the ice-cream.   The ice was still solid sold.     A really good meal.

Lotte Hotel Yangon

Yangon - I was impressed with this newly opened 5-star Hotel in Yangon, very clean and spacious.   Lotte Yangon sits on the bank of the Inya Lake.     This is the largest lake in Yangon and is man-made by the British as a water reservoir between 1882 and 1883 in order to provide a water supply to Yangon.

View from the Hotel Lobby

Hotel Entrance