Let's Eat Magazine - April 2016

In this issue

I'm a boring traveler. Th is is something I discovered during
a recent trip to Singapore where I joined a press trip, which
doubled as a quick three-day break aft er I fi nally left my job of
almost three years.
We were billeted in a gorgeous hotel along Orchard Road, a
location near a strech of shopping malls and hawker stalls that
could easily have been a blackhole for eager travelers. Anyone
with sound time management skills would have taken those few
precious hours aft er work to explore the area but being the lazy
oaf that I am, only took a few trips to Kinokuniya and Basheer to
buy magazines and books. I never really took the time to explore
anything else that I could eat or look at, apart from the bleary
view outside my hotel window (the bed was too cozy anyway).
Hungry and a bit dizzy aft er spending almost two hours at
a bookstore, I stopped at a nearby Shiraz for a bite of kebab—
something that isn't really part of Singapore's staple cuisine. I
thought of the hawker stalls I could have eaten at but was too
paralyzed by my own laziness. I couldn't even be bothered
to walk a few meters away from our hotel to check out what
restaurants I could dine in.
Given the range of coverage our writers have bookmarked
for their stories in this issue, I am inspired to make the most
out of every trip. I hope you do too, as you read our annual
travel special.