Mini Vacation Part 5- Marina Bay, Carnivore and Hediard

The Shoppes at Marina Bay Sands

The Shoppes are in the foreground, hotel behind it (Not our photo). We took the SMRT (Singapore Metro Rail Transit?) from the MRT stop at the ION/Orchard Rd out to Marina Bay and changed trains to the Circle line to get to the Marina Bayfront for the shops and hotel. We actually walked through the hotel (bypassing the huge casino) to get out to boardwalk. Between the hotel lobby and the Shoppes was an indoor waterway with sampans to rent.

We walked on the boardwalk awhile snapping photos. The odd building shaped sort of like a hand is the Science Museum. We were told that the exhibits are actually mostly underground, not up in the “fingers.” Under the Science museum there was a huge pond filled with water lilies. Very pretty place.

On the day of our visit, the water in the bay was bright green, not the dark color in the Internet shot I found.

Science Museum

Water lily ponds under the Science Museum

B's panoramic photo down at the boardwalk

This shopping spot is huge with a capital H. We didn’t even go in any shoppes really, but we peaked in windows. Every brand of watch. All the designers known on the planet probably. Two TWG tea shoppes. We saw the location of a future Gordon Ramsey restaurant.

We did have a fun lunch at a place called Carnivore- a Brazilian Churrascaria. There is a fixed lunch buffet price (steep at $34 SGP plus drinks each). The buffet includes an abundance of salad bar items, typical and not so typical. Then the chef starts bringing out various types/cuts of meat all rotisserie-cooked. He brings the whole rotisserie rod right to the table and tells you what he has and you say yes you want some or no you will pass on this one. They keep bringing meat items until you flip your sign over that means please stop, we’re done. At least that’s how it was explained to us. However, in our experience, the chef keeps bringing meat items after you turn the sign. We got full before he got to the top of the line, most flavorful beef cuts and he wanted us to try them. I forgot to mention that you get a pair of tongs to grab your piece of meat as he cuts it off. The meal concluded with rotisserie-cooked pineapple. Yummy!

There is a famous gourmet food shop in Paris named Hediard. A couple of years ago we visited Hediard on a day of heavy rain where we popped in and out of food and chocolate shops and got soaking wet. I don’t remember what else we may have purchased at Hediard, but I do remember the pâtes de fruits gems. Luscious small fruit jellies with a wide variety of unique as well as ordinary flavors, coated in sugar granules. These are delicious! I digress. Why am I talking about Hediard? Quite by accident, we found a Hediard shop in Singapore and they sold pâtes de fruits. Yippy! And we didn’t have to fly all the way to Paris to get them.