The same but different 1

Welcome to the first of probably many riveting reports on stuff that's not quite the same here as it is back home!

The first thing that I have noticed that's a bit different is breakfast food. First up, porridge, or oatmeal as it is here (porridge is a broth like rice dish with meat/fish here!) is nicer and is actually edible without copious amounts of sugar or additional fruit. There are no extra ingredients so I assume the oat flakes Quakers use are nicer than Irish ones! All-Bran, on the other hand, is even harder to eat here! It looks and tastes much blander than the Irish recipe for some reason.

Milk tends to taste differently depending on the country you're in, but it tastes pretty similar to home here. Singapore imports all its milk from Malaysia and Australia as there's no room for cows here! That does make it pretty expensive and there is a bewildering choice on offer in the supermarket between real, reconstituted, long life and flavoured milk. That's not to mention the soya milk which, unlike Ireland, is cheaper than its dairy counterpart here.