You know you're a Singaporean (overseas) when .....

• Fatum

  9 Nov 06, 02:28

  Originally posted by GameGoddess:

  Eww..
  Chicken feet?! G-r-o-s-s.
  We don't know what knid of crap the chicken's stepped on and it's probably impossible to clean off the crap from every crevice of the chicken's feet unless you're cooking at home and you *know*.
  
  Right in the catergory of :
  - Sea cucumber (A lumpy sea animal that crawls on the ground and feeds on the poo of other sea creatures. The toilet cleaner of the sea!)
  - Curdled animals' blood (Be they pig's blood, monkey's blood, chicken's blood. Just Ew.)
  - Ketchup on watermelons (YES! My friend actually eats it that way! NO NO NO FRICKIN WAY!)
  - Sotong (Maybe i've eaten bad sotong in my past life. But it's so rubbery and fishy.)
  
  

  actually hor ...
  
  for chicken feet, you'd peel off a layer of thick, scaly yellow skin off the feet before you prepare them ... the skin that you eat have never touched the ground before ...
  
  that's why it's so good ...
• jetta

  9 Nov 06, 08:17

  Originally posted by Fatum:

  actually hor ...
  
  for chicken feet, you'd peel off a layer of thick, scaly yellow skin off the feet before you prepare them ... the skin that you eat have never touched the ground before ...
  
  that's why it's so good ...

  *disgusted beyond belief* eeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee
• GameGoddess

  10 Nov 06, 08:55

  Oh..
  ok you actually peel the outer layers is it?
  Then its not as bad as I thought. But I still wouldn't eat it. LOL, I'm a bit squeamish when it comes to food.
  Seeing a bunch of chicken legs sticking out of a bowl..it makes me feel sorry for the chicken.
• jetta

  12 Nov 06, 07:16

  .... you don't tip.
  
  During my initial months here, I found it physically painful to tip. I do tip now but I'm no big tipper.
• udontknowme

  12 Nov 06, 07:20

  hehehe....when u find the 5% GST in singapore NOTHING when compared to the 14% tax u hab to pay
  
  
• jetta

  12 Nov 06, 07:31

  Originally posted by udontknowme:

  hehehe....when u find the 5% GST in singapore NOTHING when compared to the 14% tax u hab to pay
  
  

  it's 14% where you're at?
• udontknowme

  12 Nov 06, 07:34

  Originally posted by jetta:

  it's 14% where you're at?

  hanor
  
  if im not wrong its 15% where LS is
  
  
  gahmen say lower taxes. oni lower 1%!!!!!!! *dies*
  
• jetta

  12 Nov 06, 07:50

  Originally posted by udontknowme:

  hanor
  
  if im not wrong its 15% where LS is
  
  
  gahmen say lower taxes. oni lower 1%!!!!!!! *dies*
  

  What about income tax? What's the cost of living there like?