WE'RE IN SINGAPORE

Since this blog was created more than 15 years ago, 2.92 million individuals have visited this site from 221 countries.  There there are only 195 actual countries, but there are domains for places like Antarctica, so there are 26 locations not considered to be nations.  For a reason I can't explain, more people/million from Singapore visit this blog site by a very large amount:

• Singapore  75,161
• USA  706
• Canada  450
• Australia  319
• UK  292
• Netherlands 236
• Denmark 216
• France  141
• Germany 140
• Japan  76
• Thailand  50

I will be visiting countries shown in BOLD (blue) print on this global adventure.

The key question is why is Singapore so far ahead?  Maybe because English is the dominant language of the country. But that's also true for many other nations.  Anyone in Singapore:  send me an e-mail if you think you know why.  

PATKENTAK@HOTMAIL.COM   

Perhaps because Singapore is technologically advanced and particularly curious about what I write.

Okay, then, we were yesterday in Japan.  Caught Singapore Air from Narita to Changi.

I asked for beer and sake for my meal.  But the meal did not come for more than an hour after we departed.  That sake is Miyakanbai Junmai Ginjo and made out of 100%Miyama Nishiki rice, where 45% of the exterior was polished off.  Absolutely excellent.

First course was Singapore Chicken Satay with onions, cucumber and spicy peanut sauce.

Added a Suntory Chita Single Grain Japanese Whisky.  This is a course with Sakura flavored soba.  Not the pink color of the noodle.

Watched Killers of the Flower Moon.  Rotten Tomatoes 93%/84%. Robert Niro and Martin Scorsese made their first film, Mean Streets, together in 1973, 51 years ago.

Yuzu Miso Prawn Salad and Rosemary Steak followed.

Flight took 7 hours.

Immigration/customs were complicated by a QR code.  Turned out that we had to have gotten the verifiable code before getting into Singapore. This code is the equivalent of those forms you fill out on an international flight.  But we are too old to understand that, and wouldn't have known how to do it anyway.  So we were sent back to another table where a 12-year old child coached us on what to do.  Well, she looked like someone who was 12.  And, by the way, the Limousine Bus from the Tokyo Westin to Narita Airport also required one of these.  If you're like us and not equipped to enter this current high tech world, reconsider your urge to travel.

Caught a cab to the Marriott Tang Plaza, ariving around 5:15PM.  Cocktail serving in the M Club began at 5:30.  By the time we entered, 48 of the 50 tables were occupied.  Photo below just as we were about to return to our room.  Note the mauve or lavender-colored roses.  Never saw that before.

We have nothing planned for tomorrow.

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