Honeymoon recap part 5: Singapura, Singapura

After 5 nights on an island, Sophia and I were ready to get back to a city. If I’m being honest, I could’ve probably stayed an entire month and been okay with it, but knowing that your vacation has to end at some point, we were glad to get to Singapore and wrap things up.

We decided to end in Singapore so we can meet up with our friend Alyssa who moved there and I always feel like it’s good to end in a city. There’s something really depressing about going straight from the beach/island back to a city. I hadn’t been to Singapore in almost 20 years since I was a kid so it was pretty awesome coming back.

The first thing I noticed when I landed was just how many more skyscrapers there were and how many more are going up right now. The amount of construction was crazy. After the hectic atmosphere of Vietnam and Thailand, it was nice being in a place like Singapore where everything just works quickly and efficiently.

I suppose there’s not a whole lot to see in Singapore. It’s an amazing city to hang out, eat great food, and drink. We did the typical tourist things like have a drink at the top of the Marina Bay Sands and check out the light show. But really we were just there to hang out with Alyssa and eat some amazing food.

We stayed near Chinatown which was perfect as there were some amazing hawker centers within walking distance. As expected, the cocktail bars were absolutely amazing as well. The bar and party scene in Singapore is fantastic. On Friday night, we went out in Hajji Lane which was a cool area that was a bit more rugged but just a great place to start the night drinking outside.

Of course, some of the food highlights were in the hawker centers. We had some amazing chicken rice and char siew at Tiang Baruh hawker center. Having a friend who has lived there for half a year paid off when it came to food. Perhaps one of the best things we ate all trip was the black pepper crab at Long Beach Seafood. On our last night, we went to KEK Seafood for white pepper crab and chili crab. All crabs were absolutely amazing, but I’ll be dreaming about that black pepper crab for awhile.

Our last night was great as we got to hang out with all of Alyssa’s friends for a birthday party. It was hosted a cool bar on the water that overlooks MBS. It was really fun pretending like we were locals. We had a very early flight, so we had to call the night pretty early at 9am.

As always with any good trip, I was definitely a bit sad to leave. Singapore turned out to be the perfect place to end a honeymoon and we had a great time there with old and new friends. We did have one more amazing meal as we went to a sushi bar in the Tokyo airport during our transit.

Perhaps it was fitting that we had some sushi on our way back as we’re planning our next trip to Japan and Korea. Sophia and I agreed that we should start planning that next trip so we have something to look forward to.

This trip was great in many ways for me personally. First I was just feeling really burnt out and needed to recharge my batteries. This trip did that. Secondly, the honeymoon went well and we mixed quite a bit of spending time together with exploring and socializing.

Although my only honeymoon may be over, I know that Sophia and I will have many more “honeymoons” in the future. We’ll continue to travel and explore the world. I don’t think the honeymoon phase will be over for us anytime soon.