{"id":296,"date":"2005-05-27T08:46:15","date_gmt":"2005-05-27T08:46:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/walking-ixus.net\/blog\/?p=296"},"modified":"2005-05-27T08:46:15","modified_gmt":"2005-05-27T08:46:15","slug":"adventures_in_eating_and_smoki","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/walking-ixus.net\/blog\/adventures_in_eating_and_smoki\/","title":{"rendered":"Adventures in Eating (and smoking)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Today turned out pretty full, despite the late start.<br \/>\nWhat started out with a short cigar and water turned into a long drinking session as only cigars and guys do.  You can figure out the topics of conversation.  Booze, cigars, women, money. But not in that order&#8230;<br \/>\nNote to cigar people reading this: The cigar lounge is in the Regent Hotel and it was once a La Casa Del Habano.  Not anymore, but they still sell Habanos and a LOT of scotch!  Macallan is the speciality of the house here.<br \/>\nWound up closing the joint at 2100 and headed out to search for an Indian restaurant called A-1 Restaurant.<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.walking-ixus.net\/blog\/photos\/a-1.html\" onclick=\"window.open('http:\/\/www.walking-ixus.net\/blog\/photos\/a-1.html','popup','width=640,height=480,scrollbars=no,resizable=no,toolbar=no,directories=no,location=no,menubar=no,status=no,left=0,top=0'); return false\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.walking-ixus.net\/blog\/photos\/a-1-thumb.jpg?resize=160%2C120\" width=\"160\" height=\"120\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nAs you can see, I found it. Here&#8217;s how to get here if you&#8217;re so inclined.<br \/>\nTake MRT to Little India.<br \/>\nExit C and walk toward Seragoon<br \/>\nLeft on Seragoon and walk for a good 7 minutes or so.<br \/>\nYou will walk past a mosque.  Make an immediate left.  You&#8217;ll see the sign.<br \/>\nI got there right before closing time.  Ordered some chicken and curry.  Note to you all: wash your hands first!<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.walking-ixus.net\/blog\/photos\/currydinner.html\" onclick=\"window.open('http:\/\/www.walking-ixus.net\/blog\/photos\/currydinner.html','popup','width=640,height=480,scrollbars=no,resizable=no,toolbar=no,directories=no,location=no,menubar=no,status=no,left=0,top=0'); return false\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.walking-ixus.net\/blog\/photos\/currydinner-thumb.jpg?resize=160%2C120\" width=\"160\" height=\"120\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nIt was pretty good lah!<br \/>\nWill be seeing Yi-Lin tomorrow for tea and Truc and San for Monday lunch.  Wonder what I&#8217;m going to be doing Sunday? =P<br \/>\nIt&#8217;s 00:00 now and I&#8217;m all knackered out.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today turned out pretty full, despite the late start. What started out with a short cigar and water turned into a long drinking session as only cigars and guys do. You can figure out the topics of conversation. Booze, cigars, women, money. But not in that order&#8230; Note to cigar people reading this: The cigar &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/walking-ixus.net\/blog\/adventures_in_eating_and_smoki\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Adventures in Eating (and smoking)&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-296","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-2005-05-nrt-hkg-sin"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2mgIi-4M","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/walking-ixus.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/296","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/walking-ixus.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/walking-ixus.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/walking-ixus.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/walking-ixus.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=296"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/walking-ixus.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/296\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/walking-ixus.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=296"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/walking-ixus.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=296"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/walking-ixus.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=296"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}