Peninsula Excelsior Hotel Singapore

CommunicAsia 2011 Singapore Kicks Off Tomorrow

Industry leaders from the ICT, software, and cutting edge technology spheres are scheduled to attend. One highlight of the show should be  Bitstream Inc.’s revelation of their all new BOLT mobile browser. The BOLT Android version, which has been in private beta, offers great leveraging technology advantages for user, as well as carriers. The image below from the CommunicAsia 2011 Facebook pages shows preparations for the conference underway.

The Sands Expo and Convention Center will be the venue for the conference, scheduled from tomorrow, June 21 – Friday June 24th. Attendees are encouraged to stay at one of the officials hotels of CommunicAsia 2011, which include; Oxford Hotel, IBIS Singapore on Bencoolen, Hotel Royal @ Queens, Landmark Village Hotel, Parkroyal on Kitchener Road, Peninsula Excelsior Hotel Singapore, Traders Hotel Singapore, M Hotel Singapore, Swissotel Merchant Court Singapore, the  Marina Bay Sands Hotel (the venue – but booked solid), the Marina Mandarin (only the Presidential Suite left), and many more.

Other mainstream players attending the with the nearly 26,000 industry principals include; Nokia Siemens Networks, Fujitsu Asia, SunTec Business Solutions, and even WORK Microwave from here in Germany, among the thousands of others. Some of the technology world’s most brilliant technologies and the people behind them will be at this year’s event. For those interested in the speakers at this year’s conference, here is the full list with profiles .

Peninsula Excelsior Hotel, Singapore: breakfast | Not Delia

Overall, breakfast at the Peninsula Excelsior Hotel is good. It’s worth getting out of bed for, at least. We visited a few months ago and I’m only just now trying to make sense of my notes, but here goes anyway.

There were several stations where you could help yourself to cooked food, tea, coffee, juices, fruit, cereals, etc. Plus they had an egg station where eggs were cooked to order. The fried eggs at the egg station looked pretty good, as did the omelettes.

The hash browns looked great and, unlike in many other places, didn’t taste too salty. The streaky bacon was good. They also had weirdie tomatoes with cheese on top. I thought they were “quite nice”, but Mr ND thought the topping didn’t add very much. The scrambled eggs looked overcooked and were watery. (Why is it so difficult to get properly cooked scrambled eggs in Asia?) The baked beans were OK – Mr ND thought they were “a bit hard, slightly bullety”; they seemed fine to me.

The cooked food station also included several Malay dishes such as nasi lemak.

There were three flavours of juice available: orange, pineapple and grapefruit. I went and found the PJ looked like OJ, and the OJ looked like PJ but turned out to be GJ. I don’t know why they didn’t just label them properly.

The salad bar had a few bits and bobs, like sliced ham, but didn’t look very exciting. There was also a small fruit bar. They had a full range of cereals including a rather soggy-looking muesli with milk.

There was tea and coffee in mugs (which Mr ND was glad to see), and hot milk if wanted. They had two powerful toasters with a choice of sliced brown or white bread. There was also a small selection of Danish pastries – Danish custard, pain au raisins , apple Danish.