Strange Foods In Singapore and At Changi Airport: durian, kaya and pandan

SINGAPORE
If you are travelling to Singapore, or on a stopover to Australia or anywhere else, look around Singapore or the airport.

Singapore is like one long food festival, with multi-national stalls on the cheap hawker centres and department store food courts.

Pandan Cookies and Cakes
My unfavourite food is the so subtle green pandan cake popular in Singapore which rarely tastes of anything and has no much or crunch. However, try anything once.

Pandan Chiffon cookie at Singapore's Changi Airport. Photo by Angela Lansbury. Copyright.

Pandan cake, Wikipedia.

You will find pandan cake in many bakery counters in kiosks in hawker centres (food courts in the basement of upper floors of shopping malls and department stores).

Durian
Durian comes in many forms. The evil-smelling fruit, like a green football. Cut up into oozing greeny yellow pieces. Horrid, in my opion.

Durian cakes in shopping mall, Singapore. Photos by Angela Lansbury. Copyright.

Yet durian gives a wonderful flavour in ice creams and cakes, like banana, or chestnut.

You can also get chewy durian gums.

Durian gum. Photo by Angela Lansbury. 

And look for a durian topping, a paste squeezed like toothpaste over ice creams from hawker centres.

And this week Durian at the Goodwood Park hotel. On through June and until July.

Kaya Toast
Kaya is coconut jam, yellow and tasty, spread on toast for breakfast or a snack. I've also seen this at the airport.

Useful Websites
visitsingapore.com
singaporeair.com (Singapore Airlines)
https://www.ishopchangi.com
http://www.changiairport.com/en/shop-and-dine.html
http://www.goodwoodparkhotel.com/durian-fiesta-2018-,promotions_viewItem_1341-en.html

Author, Angela Lansbury, travel writer and photographer, author and speaker.