Food, food, food...and bananas

Just like the houses, Singaporean cuisine draws on the best of the different regions... fast food comes not just in plastic pots but also on banana leaves! This is a veggie biryani 'meal' with puffed up 'batura' breads, fried rice, 'sambar' lentil soup, pappadum, chickpeas, coleslaw, cocacola and a surprisingly spicey lentil 'dessert' ;0 behind is dosa bread and a load of dips. Not bad for a fiver.

Here people also make much better use of bananas than I do...it's not just the fruit you can eat and the leaves for plates, but the whole tree including the trunk and the fruit that are turned into soups and curries. Below you see the head of the flower and embryonic bananas which surrounds it. Each one starts a few leaves and a blob of honey you can eat these too except the stamen which is discarded and called a "theif" kallan in Tamil!