Indian Vegetarian Restaurant, Conveniently in Central Singapore, Has Delicious Halwa

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Nalan Restaurant is easy to reach. You walk underground from City Hall station which is on both the red north-south line and the green east-west line.



The restaurant sits beside the central fountains which are at the bottom of the staircase circling up to the level above where you find the food court.
Here are the fountains.

our friends had found a table by the wall, which I prefer. Last time we had a table of six in the centre.


Nalan vegetarian restaurant. Photo by Angela Lansbury. Copyright.

We started with drinks. You can have sweet or salty or mango lassi. I opted for rose milk which is rarer.


Rose milk and mango lassi. Photo by Angela Lansbury. Copyright.

We were given two menus. The simpler one is easier to follow. You can have a South Indian thali or a North Indian Thali.



South Indian Thali at Nalan. Photo by Angela Lansbury. Copyright.

Thali
If you can't decide just goes for the Thali, a tray of mixed food. In the centre was including white rice which got compliments.  Several flavours of food - enough to share around.

Finally, one small white cup contained the most delicious carrot dessert, a yellow liquid with teeny orange shredded carrot at the base.


Carrot halwa dessert. Nalan vegetarian restaurant. Photo by Angela Lansbury. Copyright.

I avoided Masala dosai which contains potato, which I love, and ordered last time I visited here.  But often in a thin crunchy pancake. I wanted a bread which was more chewy. And to try something new.

I opted for one of the set meals, six and seven sounded similar. The dearer one, number 6, contained potato.

My friend ordered garlic bread.

Garlic bread at Nalan vegetarian restaurant. Photo by Angela Lansbury. Copyright.

I finished with a final sip of the carrot dessert and found shredded carrot underneath.



Nalan vegetarian restaurant. Photo by Angela Lansbury. Copyright.

The price was about 25 dollars per couple. We had the two drinks and a bottle of water water, no coffee or tea.

We had phoned and asked to book a table for Sunday lunch time. They said they opened at 10.30 am and no need to book.

I kept the receipt which was handy because it gave me the address if I need to tell anybody else for a repeat visit.

Our friends asked us, "What are you going to do next?"

The signs by the escalator point you to many local attractions including the Peranakan Museum. about the clothes and food of the families combining two cultures, Chinese and Malay, often with a Chinese husband and Malay wife.

Address
13 Stamford Road,
Capitol Piazzo
#B2-54
Singapore 178884
Tel: +65 6336 6404

Useful Websites
Malan
http://www.nalan.com.sg/

MRT
https://landtransportguru.net/city-hall-station/

Singapore
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Angela Lansbury, travel writer and photographer, author and speaker. Please share links to your favourite posts.

How to report an incident on a train?

Long ago I experienced an incident in Harrow, NW London. England, the police told me that if they had a photo of the trouble-maker, it was usually easy to track them down.

Photo Identity
Police Photos
I asked my family about this. Nowadays with social media, it is relatively easy to put up a photo and get the person identified. Back then a simpler method was used. Suppose, for example, a lad threw a bottle, or tried to break into a car, or assaulted somebody in a pub? First, the police have a book of photos of regular offenders they can show you.

School Photos
They can take a photo of the offender around the half a dozen local schools and ask the head teacher, is this person at your school? If the person is a teenager or in their twenties, it might still be possible to identify them from an old end-of-year school photo.

Now, let's move to 21st century Singapore, where every station has video cameras.

After an incident, I was aware that I could not identify which train I was on, because trains run every three minutes and I reckoned it had taken me longer then three minutes to walk along the platform, go up the escalator, and walk to the ticket office and get attention and tell my story. At the end, I was asked, 'When did this happen?'

I said, "I am not sure. I suppose if it ever happens again, I should look at my watch and note the time the incident happens and the time I got off the train."

The station staff member told me, "Your watch may not be sufficiently accurate. What we can do is track you leaving the train and going up the escalator and through the station to work out the time of the train, and then alert staff at the next station or later stations.
(More later.)

Trains line up with the platform glass doors. If you can identify the door on the platform, where you exit, we know where you were on the train.

Reporting People In Incidents
To identify an alleged culprit, victim, or witness, violent person, or sick person, staff may want to know about the person. Try to describe:
Sex 
Race
Language spoken 
Age
Hair: bald, thinning, thick, black, brown, blonde, red, white, straight, curly, ponytail, long, short, below or above ears, parting.
Clothing: colour, style, shoes, trousers, t-shirt, slogan on clothes, hat, gloves. 
Accessories: mobile phone, shopping bag. 
Action: (Molesting, photographing, shouting, swearing, threatening, lurching, collapsing, talking on phone, talking to themselves, singing, aggressive, dazed. 
Position: sitting, standing by door, walking up and down train. 
If you can take a photo without obviously doing so, it's easier for you to report accurately.



See my later post on platform door numbers in Singapore.

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Here are some more posts on stations:

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https://travelwithangelalansbury.blogspot.com/2019/01/cute-musicians-in-cartoons-on-toilet.html

Chinese Decorations and Statues at Toa Payoh in Singapore

Toa Payoh is easy to get to, on the red North-south train line, only four stops north of Orchard (which is the central stop, the Piccadilly of Singapore). Here's the arch you see as you exit from the MRT (mass railway transit).

At the other end, walking towards the community centre, is a pair of amusing statue groups, next to Starbuck coffee shop.

If it rains, inside the indoor mall by the MRT are more decorations and the Popular book and stationery store, as well as Fairprice supermarket.

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