We should have seen it coming this time. The last MBA get together we had attended snuck up on us and somehow we were walking into our apartment when the sun was coming up. Not quite the case this time, but we still found ourselves bouncing all over the town until later in the evening. School is officially over at the end of this week and since a lot of students are travelling right away, the end of the semester party was this weekend. The party planners had come through again and rented out the 'Wine Mansion' for the evening. It seemed like Keong Saik road, the street it was on, should be renamed 'Wine Street.' While waiting to get in we noticed there were wine bars and shops surrounding the Wine Mansion on both sides of the road. Not sure how we had not made this discovery ourselves in the past year and a half, we seriously must be slipping. As the night progressed, we really felt like we should have known about this place already as the waiters made sure to refill your glass every time it seemed like you were getting low. That type of services is definitely not the norm here. The food spread of pizza, bruschetta, spring rolls and french fries was a little eclectic, but hey, it was an international group and as previously mentioned too many times to count, spring rolls go great with anything.
We were supposed to leave at 10, but they were nice enough to let people start sampling other bottles of wine and stay until midnight. Now of course, is when we start to veer off topic a bit. People wanted to head to Holland Village which was perfect, close to home for the two of us. First though, we needed a snack to complement the previous assortment consumed. No food carts sitting around here so the local advice was to hop into two taxis to get some prata and curry at Spize. Unfortunately, after leaving the friendly confines of the mansion, the service ground to a halt again and what my buddies at the Prata Hut in Empress Market can crank out in 30 seconds took about 20 minutes. The food finally arrived and while tasty, didn't totally cut it..... we needed more.
Luckily we had somehow landed on late night food row and our Singaporean guide walked us 100 meters down the street. Aha, one of the most famous chicken rice restaurants on the island. This was turning into a late night taste of Singapore. All we had ever had was chicken rice at the hawker centers so we were pretty excited. He asked us how hungry we were and everyone kind of nodded, so the full chicken order went in. Turns out when he said full chicken he actually meant, 1 whole chicken. Our eyes had of course been bigger than our stomachs, the pork and prawns didn't help either, but we gave it a pretty valiant effort and polished off most of the food. It was hard not to, the rice was sweeter and the chicken a little more flavorful. Hopefully our local Farrer Road Chicken Rice stand won't take offense to us branching out in other directions. Totally stuffed, and feeling like we were in training for the upcoming Thanksgiving holiday, we threw in the towel. We even made it home this time with significant hours to spare before the neighborhood rooster started crowing. Its probably a good thing these MBA excursions don't happen that frequently and are coming to a close, at some point we may have found ourselves in Indonesia or Malaysia before the evening was over.
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