We went to Geylang to sample to food (especially the frogs' legs) and also to see what seems to be the last non-central bit of Singapore that that government hasn't flattened and turned into a concrete jungle. The old shophouses still line the streets and we had some really good food in a place we had reccommended to us. Foreign Guniess (brewed in Singapore) also always amuses me. Geylang is more like what Singapore must have been like before all the redevelopment started.
Geylang is also Singapore's legal red light district. Because it's legal, the area is safe. It was strange for us thinking of the UK etc. where red-light districts are usually in dodgy industrial parts of town and certainly not where you'd want to walk around at night. In Geylang, it's next to all the night shops and street restaurants: so it's very open! Pretty sad seing some the young guys going into one place though...surely they shouldn't really need to pay for it???
On the way back to the MRT station, we stopped off at a Durian Cafe because Brad and I hadn't tried it before. A Durian is a fruit that's banned from buses and the train system because it smells so bad. It also tastes really strange. I quite liked it but lot's of people, as we found out, really hate it.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Geylang_Road_Shophouses.jpg
