Artistry and High Tea

I did mention, a few posts ago, our visit to the Singapore's National Art Gallery and that I'd be posting more about it.

The exhibition that was on at the time of our visit was called "Art and Empire", if I remember correctly and depicted the growth of the British Empire.

The Gallery allows photos to be taken of all items but one, the copyright of which belongs to a certain Japanese gentleman I was told.

So here's a few I enjoyed.

 

This painting, by an unknown artist and entitled "The Departure of King Thibaw and Queen Supalayat from Mandalay at the End of the Third Burma War in 1885" was an especially poignant one for me as we had visited Mandalay and the Palace a few years back.

I have, in fact, a photo of the observation tower with the spiral staircase in the top left of the painting.

Wandering through the Gallery, we stumbled on Violet Oon's restaurant.

Recognising that she had been a contemporary of ours during our student days (though we never knew her personally), and being in need of a good sit-down, we entered the beautifully set up space and had high tea there.

High tea was $53 for the two of us, and quite a bargain we thought, given the ambience of the place and the generous amount of sweet and savoury delights reminding me of my Peranakan heritage.

I thought this tray was cleverly designed, being reminiscent of a tiffin carrier.

Pork bun and sambal sandwich

L to R: Otak, nasi kunyit, pie tee, and buah keluak

The sweets, and I can't remember all the names, though.