2009 - July 14 (Singapore)

The work day went quickly. I went out for lunch on my own like a big boy, going to the hawker square and getting some Chicken and Rice. This is a Singapore cultural icon. It is just boiled chicken and rice. In Mexico it is Arroz con Pollo. It is simple, filling, and very tasty since the flavor is all from using a lot of chicken to make the broth and then cooking more chicken in the broth to have with the rice. She-Who-Must-Be-Obeyed wanted to have a “team dinner’ with me and Kimberley. So I made reservations for Morton’s of Singapore. We end the day, meet in the martini lounge in the hotel where she has two Cosmopolitans and we head out to dinner. At the restaurant she orders a double Scotch on the rocks. We order dinner and I order a nice Malbec red that the wine steward noted was only normally sold by the glass. I asked him if a bottle could be provided and he said we could get it for 80 Singapore dollars. That was a steal since most of their wines in the restaurant started at 100+ Singapore dollars. I had a 14 ounce bone-in ribeye, mushrooms, green beans, Lyonnais potatoes with enough sautéed onions to really give the potatoes some flavor. Dessert was a Grand Marnier soufflé. I asked the waiter for a glass of their 1948 Chateau LaBaud Armagnac. (Roy, it brought back memories of 100 year old Napoleonic brandy at Windsor Court Hotel in New Orleans many years ago. Makes Louis drink like rot gut whiskey.) I let S-W-M-B-O try it and it made her VO cognac smell like Everclear. She was very envious. It was actually a good night. S-W-M-B-O was not horrible and she was in a good mood when we separated at the hotel.



Early to bed, little rest in anticipation of travel the next day.