Good food

I’ve not had “roti prata” (yet), but the Hainanese chicken rice, the Chinese dumplings (at Din Tai Fung), the noodle soup (from some place in Food Republic) and the sushi (at Sushi Tei in Ngee Ann City) as well as pretty much any other meal (from nameless places in food courts near the office or hotel) were all quite enjoyable. That’s not what can be said of the smell of the durian I had, but it does taste quite nice (wikipedia references a quote from Anthony Burgess who described it “like eating sweet raspberry blancmange in the lavatory”).     

 Nice weather

The humidity is not quite pleasant, but overall (as long as you stay out of the midday sun) it’s quite nice.     

 Nice people

After all, they invited me here and recommended (and took me to) a number of the aforementioned food places.     

 Good destinations (though with quite pushy sales people and more good food)

Little India, Chinatown. There seem to be more places worth visiting, but as I was here for work for one or another reason I was expected to be in the office pretty much every day (summary: exhausting but it seems to have been worthwhile) that kept me from exploring those.