Travelogue around Asia Pacific Part II

 Singapore - my team went for a leather making team building for 3hr - starting at 2pm and ended around 5pm with 3 leather products made.    We were taught :the basic knowledge of leather, types of basic leather crafting tools, scoring, cutting and gluing of leather, Saddle stitching, edge finishing & burnishing.  The types of leather available include full grain, top grain, genuine, bicast, and bonded.  Leather finishes include aniline, semi-aniline, brush-colored, degrained, die-cut, embossed, embroidered, handworked, metallic, nappa, nubuck, oily, patent, pigmented, printed, split, suede, and waxy. The leather that we used were vegetable-tanned genuine leather. Genuine leather means it is the lowest quality of all products made out of real leather. Basically, you should read it as: "At least it's genuine leather." busy leather crafting leather name card holder We learn how to saddle stitch which last much longer. In addition to using thicker thread wit...

 Singapore - We had our lunch group gathering at this Italian restaurant along Bussorah Street, and the dishes were sizeable portioned and remarkable delicious.   The seafood was fresh.  Lunch gathering Arancini Balls Delicious arancini balls served golden brown, stuffed with melted mozzarella. Wild Mushroom soup My mushroom soup was creamy, served hot and it was very good.  The blending of the mushroom was authentic. Squid Ink seafood spaghetti I selected mildly spicy and the level was just nice.  The seafood was fresh and the portion was perfect.  The spaghetti was cooked well and tossed skillfully. Eggplant Parmigiana This dish looks like a pizza but in fact is based on eggplant baked and topped  with melted mozzarella and parsley and their homemade tomato sauce. Calzone According to the owner, this is their speciality to served it pizza style looking like a star.   A wonderful lunch served at a secondary school classmate's restauran...