Coney Island Again (on Vesak Day)

I went to Coney Island again yesterday.  My first trip there was bitin so I made a mental note to go back and cycle.

I went with J and this time, we didnt walk but cycled.  There were two bicycle shops near Punggol Jetty, one is GoCycle and the other is Jomando.  Gocyle is cheaper, $8 per hour for the ordinary ones but they dont have a drop off point at the East Gate (we wanted to go straight to Ikea after cycling) so we went to Jomando hoping that they do but unfortunately, they have neitehr.   I rented a $10 per hour one, J took the $12 one.  We rented the bikes for 2 hours but they had a promo of 2 +1 so we had a third hour for free.

It was cloudy that day and we're hoping that it wont rain.  The weather was cooperative, it didnt rain when we were cycling.  From end to end, the island is just about 2.4km long.  We followed the main trail and followed the small ones on our way back, dropping by the beach once in a while.

There were a lot of couples doing their photo shoot and I would understand.  The place is beautiful for a rustic setting.

a dog happily swimming in the beach

It took us a little over an hour to finish the entire island. And that's on a very slow pace.

On our way out, rain started to pour so we stopped at the shed near the entrance.  We stayed there for quite some time together with the other cyclists.  We were thinking that such kind of rain wont be stopping anytime soon so when it became just a light drizzle, we cycled back to the shop (and that's how I probably got sick).

We headed to Ikea after where we spent the next couple of hours looking at furnitures and design ideas.

It was a good day all in all.

(All photos and video were by J)

New discovery: Swee Choon Tim Sum

D and I accompanied M who had an endoscopy at Raffles last Saturday.  It was almost 2pm when M's procedure was finished.  We were starving.  M wanted to have some dimsum so we consulted Google and were directed to this place in Jalan Besar.

We walked for about 30 mins.   We saw the place from our afar and our hearts sank because it was already closing.  We checked online and indeed, it says that it closes at 230pm before it opens again from 6pm to 6am.  Sad isnt it?

It's a good thing that we were curious. We still went to see the place and discovered that the restaurant basically covers the entire block!  We checked the second door and upon seeing that there were still a group of people eating, we went in and tried our luck.  And lucky we were indeed!  Last order was at 230pm, we got there at 227pm.

We ordered several dishes.  Everything was good but my favorite was the salted egg yolk bun.  It's heavenly!  The dough was soft and moist but not soggy and the egg yolk filling was just right.  The hakaw and chives dumpling were also good!  Again, everything was good.

After eating, we walked and in a couple of steps, realized that they had a bakery for people who want to take some of the goodies home!  It was indeed a series of fortunate events :)