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What retail products do you miss from home?
The best bread I have found in Singapore is close to where I work now. In Ikon Village. Give it a try, I am sure you will love it. I am a 'bread-head', I just love good bread and this is brilliant:
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Did you see the guy who brought doner kebab to the masses in the UK died recentlySteve1960 wrote:I have been racking my brains and don't think there is anything I really miss.
Sometimes it takes a little searching (or asking on this forum) and sometimes (more often than not) its a bit expensive but I have found everything I like in the end. Maybe I am just not that adventurous!
The things I thought would be a problem are easily found in Cold Storage. Piccalilli, HP brown sauce, cheese sauce (for cauliflower cheese), OXO cubes.
In fact now that I have a 'UK TV Anywhere' box installed and a large free standing bath tub I would go as far as to say the only thing I miss from the UK is family.
Doner Kebab on a Saturday night after a long stint in the pub watching football..................maybe but my health must be better without it and the six pints of wife beater beforehand.
Can't think of anything else.

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Re: What retail products do you miss from home?
I miss Vitamin Water Zero and Gatorade Light. Only the traditional Vitamin Water and Gatorade are available here.monkton wrote:I remember when we first moved here from the US my wife really missed Vitamin Water (it's since arrived in SG). I still miss certain products that I used to be able to walk into a 7-11 or a supermarket in New York and pick up. What are some items you used to take for granted that you can't find in Singapore?
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Did't even know that Vitamin Water Zero or Gatorade Light exist.BedokAmerican wrote:I miss Vitamin Water Zero and Gatorade Light. Only the traditional Vitamin Water and Gatorade are available here.monkton wrote:I remember when we first moved here from the US my wife really missed Vitamin Water (it's since arrived in SG). I still miss certain products that I used to be able to walk into a 7-11 or a supermarket in New York and pick up. What are some items you used to take for granted that you can't find in Singapore?
Cheese sauce- yes, homemade is better than the sachet.
Maldon salt - for cooking it is $8 here

Re: What retail products do you miss from home?
I don't get the concept of zero-cal rehydration drinks. They work, they rehydrate, due to their sugar content being optimised to pass rapidly into the bloodstream. What next asparin-free asparin?PrimroseHill wrote:Did't even know that Vitamin Water Zero or Gatorade Light exist.
Maldon salt - for cooking it is $8 here
It's like rehydration salts. You take a sachet, and it says 'mix with 250ml of water', it's important. I once knew a dive-guide who would mix them with say 50ml of water as he hated the salty flavour ['Woorrrr, I kin 'ate this minging stuff' hahaha]... missing the point that that he was probably *further* dehydrating himself as a result.
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Maldon salt. I wouldn't bother, unless it's for presentational effect. Otherwise NaCl is NaCl, 50c or $8. [I'd be very interested to see an informed person make a case that there is any value in boutique salt, beyond the cosmetic/visual potential]
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Hehehe....Strong Eagle wrote:Pot!
I never got so into it, that I'd miss it. Well apart from 2-3 years, way back.
Last time I tried it, it was something really bad, 'Super-skunk' or something, GM-grass. Nothing like a simple chilled out puff on home-grown, it was like dropping a tab of acid, and quickly quite frightening. Luckily I understood the concept of tripping, and a 'bad-trip' so could rationalise it.
I mention this only in case it's of use to some parents, who don't realise 'weed' these days is a very very, very very, very different experience to what it was back in say the 70/80s.
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