Blackpenny Pub and more: Boat Quay: Eat and Drink Like a Colonial
by AKtravelers
....I visited Boat Quay during the day, as a wayward walk on the way to see the Merlion. I actually got there just as the pubs and restaurants were opening up, so I wasn't even hungry enough to give them a sample. Still, the area looked sublime for eating and drinking the night away along the langid Singapore River. There ere old English pubs, just as you would expect from a city that was ruled by London until the early part of my lifetime (1965). But there were also ethnic restaurants of various sorts and even a bar called Eskis which looked like a refrigerator but was actually one of those sub-zero bars that i DEFINITELY would have stopped into if it weren't closed when I meandered through te neighborhood again on my way home.....Boat Quay used to be where all the wharehouses were along the busy Singapore River, and the docks in front of it were usually jammed with sampans. But, as I...