Review of Siloso Beach Resort

Wanting a short & quick getaway from the grime of Singapore city, I headed to (gasp!) Sentosa Island! Once banished as a pathetic destination by the locals, I must say Sentosa has improved by leaps & bounds. So I decided that we should pick a new resort to cozy up and Siloso Beach Resort was it. We arrived at night so there wasn't much to see and the rather tiny & cramped reception did not help make things better.

The rooms were tastefully furnished. I guess when the furniture is new, it makes the overall experience much more pleasant.

The rooms are nothing out of the ordinary except for the rather fancy designer-looking couch and flat screen TV.The pool was a stunner though. To keep to the theme of the tropics, there is a huge waterfall and you can take it from me that it hurts if you stand right beneath it.

The pool is long enough for swimming laps. But the palm trees & greenery really makes it feel like an lavish & remote island resort in the middle of the Pacific. We also had the pool to ourselves which was heavenly.For dinner, it was salami & ham pizza at Trapizza; an alfresco beachside pizza joint just next to Rasa Sentosa. It was the thin-crust variety and very scrumptious. To cap it all off, oreo cheesecake from the hotel cafe. Sweet.

A foodie trip to Malacca

Or as we spell in in Malay - Melaka. Nothing beats a short foodie trip to Melaka, which is only a 3 hours ride away from Singapore. Much like Penang, it is a food paradise - a smorgasboard of local fast food and scrumptious Baba-Nyonya cuisine.
(From top left; clockwise): Famous chicken rice balls with so-so-tender chicken & fragrant rice; Peranakan-style nasi lemak, rojak with fish cake & special sweet sauce, laksa lemak with heart-stopping coconut-based curry. Yum.

Then comes the Peranakan-inspired cuisine. It is slightly different from the Penang variety but yummy nonetheless. We had our initiation at Nancy's Kitchen off Jonker Street. We could not stop ordering so we just ate our way through the night.

(from top left, clockwise): fish maw soup; pork belly stew; eggplant in sambal sauce; sayur lodeh, wild boar curry, chicken curry with candle nut.

It's belly-heartening to know that all this is only 3 hours away!