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Cover-Singapore-2nd time.indd 1 28/10/17 4:27 pm Singapore_Guide_ADs.indd 5 27/10/17 3:58 pm SingaporeTHE Guide INSIDE CONTENTS 04 NAVIGATOR Map, apps and information on landmarks and hotels to make your stay in Singapore even more comfortable and delightful. 06 A NATION CITY Our comprehensive eight-page guide and factsheet about Singapore that’s sure to help you visit, stay, enjoy and dine at the finest of places. 16 SINGAPORE IN 45 DISHES A round-up of Singapore’s most popular delicacies, spanning cuisines, bridging budgets and bringing together myriad culinary experiences. 22 12 REASONS TO STAY LONGER Singapore’s not just a stop-over hub or a place to cram in a day. The 2018 calendar is jam-packed with reasons to extend your trip. Here’s how. 26 LAST STOP Much more than just a terminal, Changi Airport is a haven for lovers of the good life, with vibrant food courts, great duty-free shopping outlets and luxurious services.

ON THE COVER Supertrees during sunset at Gardens by the Bay, Singapore

YVETTE CARDOZO / ALAMY Photograph by N Umnajwannaphan/Gettyimages

The Social Tree in Changi Airport, Singapore lets travellers take selfies.

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GETTING STARTED Insider info for the luxury traveller SINGAPORE ARRIVAL Visit www.mfa.gov.sg to apply for a visa. You must apply at least a month ahead of the arrival. Visas take about three working days and a fee of S$30 (agent fees extra). A Woodlands Singapore dollar equals `47.78. Waterfront COMMUTE A well-connected city, Singapore has Park a good network of mass rapid transport, buses Kranji Pulau Ubin and taxis. Visit www.smrt.com.sg or download War Memorial MyTransport for hassle-free travel. Tourist Bollywood Veggies helpline: 00-65-1800-736-2000. Khatib Bongsu Yishun Dam CONNECTIVITY Free public wi-ﬁ is available Sembawang Hot Springs in Singapore. Register your foreign mobile number at a Wireless@SG hotspot and download the apps like GoThere.sg, Singapore Insider (for the ﬁ nest experiences in the city), Republic of Singapore Flying Club Singapore Heritage Trails and Chope Singapore Marriott (a real-time reservations app). Orchard Aerotel Airport Tang Plaza Hotel Street SHOPPING A shopper’s paradise, Singapore Little India Transit Hotel National Museum has the airport, malls (like Vivo City), Clark Quay Changi Airport neighbourhoods (Orchard Road, Bugis, etc) Robertson Naumi and heartlands (Tampines and Queenstown) Quay Hotel Crowne Plaza to keep you busy. Raffles Hotel

Four Seasons Singapore Flyer

Jurong National Fountain of Wealth Gallery Bird Park China Town Esplanade Theatres on the Bay

Merlion Buddha Tooth Relic temple Henderson Waves Bridge The Fullerton Hotel Marina Bay Sands Hotels Attractions Mount Faber ArtScience Museum Gardens by the Bay Golf course Resorts World Sentosa Neighbourhood Tiger Sky Tower Museum W Singapore–Sentosa Cove Islands Shopping Sentosa Island Theme park

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Jurong National Fountain of Wealth Gallery Bird Park China Town Esplanade Theatres on the Bay

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TIONG BAHRU MARINA DELIGHTS BAY One of the ﬁ ve Asian Tigers, Singapore displays a blend of modernity CHINATOWN and tradition. Our eight-page guide and fact sheet is sure to help you CBD A NATIONCity pack-in all the sights, sounds and tastes the ‘garden city’ has to offer. KATONG

SINGAPORE STRAIT

SENTOSA 0 2 MI �3.2 KM� ISLAND LAY OF THE LAND

ORCHARD ROAD Head to this 2.5 kilometre-stretch of road with the largest concentration of shopping malls in the world! You can also enjoy global fare at a host of world-class eateries or spend time in art galleries.

ROBERTSON QUAY Situated along the river, this is now one of Singapore’s most popular nightlife districts. Choose from a wealth of restaurants and bars located here.

COLONIAL DISTRICT Reminiscent of the British-era, the area is packed with famous landmarks like Old Parliament House, Victoria Theatre & Concert Hall, the Old Supreme Court and City Hall.

LITTLE INDIA This most vibrant part of Singapore houses several spectacular temples and bustling shops selling everything from gold jewellery to Hindi music CDs, cheap clothing and souvenirs.

CHINATOWN A plethora of hawker stalls, restaurants and wine bars offer foodies plenty of options for eating and entertainment.

KAMPONG GLAM Funky-meets-quaint with a line-up of trendy boutiques and cocktail bars along this tiled pedestrian area. Mosques and carpet shops give the area a distinct Middle Eastern vibe.

TIONG BAHRU The city’s oldest housing estate is one of the most happening hoods in town with row-after-row of quaint art-deco shophouses and food and Colourful emergency stairs on new Bugis Street Village. NATTHAWAT/GETTYIMAGES lifestyle establishments.

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SINGAPORE STRAIT

SENTOSA 0 2 MI �3.2 KM� ISLAND LAY OF THE LAND

ROBERTSON QUAY Situated along the river, this is now one of Singapore’s most popular nightlife districts. Choose from a wealth of restaurants and bars located here.

COLONIAL DISTRICT Reminiscent of the British-era, the area is packed with famous landmarks like Old Parliament House, Victoria Theatre & Concert Hall, the Old Supreme Court and City Hall.

LITTLE INDIA This most vibrant part of Singapore houses several spectacular temples and bustling shops selling everything from gold jewellery to Hindi music CDs, cheap clothing and souvenirs.

CHINATOWN A plethora of hawker stalls, restaurants and wine bars offer foodies plenty of options for eating and entertainment.

KAMPONG GLAM Funky-meets-quaint with a line-up of trendy boutiques and cocktail bars along this tiled pedestrian area. Mosques and carpet shops give the area a distinct Middle Eastern vibe.

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Singapore Clockwise: The ‘drift’ sculpture Guide in the hotel lobby of Marina Bay Sands; a room in Naumi Hotels; Capella Singapore; Waku Ghin: DELIGHTS marinated botan shrimp with sea urchin and caviar. Opposite: The living room of the two-bedroom garden loft, Cassia Bintan; AWAY Suite, W Singapore, Sentosa Cove; Town Restaurant, The Fullerton Hotel, Singapore. CLOCKWISE: COURTESY OF W; COURTESY OF SOFITEL; COURTESY OF THE FULLERTON STAY of the hotel is old world of the city. While the received a facelift MARINA BAY SANDS charm redux. The rooms and suites off er and now stands as a The triple-towered, Your Humble Abode hotel’s signature Kueh shimmering views of the contemporary boutique 55-storey mega property While the Orient takes pride in humility, we assure you Lapis cake, available sea, the spacious villas, hotel. One of its needs absolutely no at The Fullerton surrounded by verdant novelties are the rooms introduction. It is one of there’s nothing low key about these iconic Singapore hotels. Shop, is a must try. vegetation, come with inspired by global the most iconic buildings Prices start at US$348; an outdoor rain shower, greats. Two suites, in Singapore and is CASSIA BINTAN the hotel’s signature short 25-minute fullertonhotels.com private plunge pool Gabrielle and Camellia reportedly the most Consider the newest contemproary restaurant car ride from the and spacious veranda. are fashioned after Coco expensive standalone, addition to the exclusive Skirt serves Singapore’s Changi Airport. With CAPELLA SINGAPORE Prices start at US$544; Chanel, while the Eden integrated resort ever Laguna Bintan most sought-after steaks. incredible views over the Perched dramatically capellahotels.com and Nirwana are an built. Enjoy views of Integrated Resort your The rooms and suites city and riverside, the atop a cascading hillside ode to Andy Warhol. An the city’s breathtaking home-away-from-home. are classifi ed as per understated elegance with the shimmering NAUMI HOTEL entire fl oor on the third skyline from the Enjoy a relaxed vacation comfort, ranging from South China Sea in the This is an intimate level can be booked by stunning Sands Skypark on Bintan Island, just an Wonderful to Spectacular, background, Capella retreat, which caters to those seeking privacy observation deck or relax hour’s ferry ride from Fabulous, Marvelous, Singapore is the both business and leisure or ladies travelling in the world’s largest Singapore, from the AWAY and WOW. Enjoy preferred address for travellers. What’s more, by themselves. Prices rooftop infi nity pool. comfort of spacious lofts. the mood lighting. people seeking refuge it also off ers sound-proof start at US$280; Prices start at US$419; Make new friends at the Prices start at US$383; from the hectic pace rooms! The property naumihotel.com marinabaysands.com beach club, take a dip in wsingaporesentosacove.com the pool or just unwind. You can also tee-off at THE FULLERTON HOTEL Bintan’s 18-hole golf SINGAPORE RAFFLES SINGAPORE EPITOMISES THE ROMANCE OF THE FAR EAST— AN INTOXICATING BLEND OF LUXURY, course. Prices US$119 Once a post offi ce HISTORY AND COLONIAL DESIGN. IT HAS EVOLVED THROUGH THE LAST 130 YEARS FROM A 10-ROOM BUNGALOW and up; cassia.com originally built in 1928, IN 1887 TO BEING ONE OF THE WORLD’S MOST ICONIC HOTELS TODAY. THE HOTEL IS CURRENTLY UNDERGOING the converted hotel W SINGAPORE—SENTOSA COVE building now sits on A CAREFUL AND SENSITIVE RESTORATION THAT IS BEING CARRIED OUT IN THREE PHASES AND IS SET TO REOPEN

Known for its wow-factor, Marina Bay and is a CLOCKWISE: COURTESY OF MARINA SANDS(2); BAY COURTESY OF NAUMI HOTEL; COURTESY OF CAPELLA HOTELS WITH A GRAND CELEBRATION IN AUTUMN 2018.

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Known for its wow-factor, Marina Bay and is a CLOCKWISE: COURTESY OF MARINA SANDS(2); BAY COURTESY OF NAUMI HOTEL; COURTESY OF CAPELLA HOTELS WITH A GRAND CELEBRATION IN AUTUMN 2018.

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CLOCKWISE: IVAN NESTEROV/ALAMY; COURTESY OF OLIVIER LENOIR; COURTESY OF FABIO GRANATA; COURTESY OF TARUN KALRA fl attractions thatgive you anauthentic These aceinsidersshareinformationon you about withthesehiddengems. Discover theSingaporethey didn’t tell WALKING INTOTHEWHITERABBIT MAKESYOUFEELALMOST REVERENT.” “WITH SOARINGCEILINGS ANDBEAUTIFULSTAINED-GLASSWINDOWS ACCENTUATEDWITHWARMWOOD,BLACKMARBLE ANDBRONZETONES, LOCAL TAKE Go Beyond hard-to-fi 1930s Ebenezer chapel. Collect a tool Singapore Repertory Theatre.” the SingaporeRepertory Relish timeless recipesandtraditions West EndandBroadway atoneofthe House andOldParliament House. avour ofthecity. Object ofVicecollection—unique, of yesteryear atTheWhiteRabbit, buildings inthecivicdistrict like the or two fromThe Warehouseor two Hotel’s “To toanothertime gettransported that theoriginalwarehouse bosses plays andbestsellers fromleading leading theatrecompaniesinAsia, would have used,suchaslighters, and space,checkoutthemajestic The Arts Hall,TheArts Victoria Concert housed inthebeautifully restored ashtrays andfl stages, especially fromLondon’s The Warehouse Hotel nd items, mirror accessories General Manager TARUN KALRA asks. Enjoy classic pork belly rice,whichisfortunately Regis SingaporeandisSingapore’s favourites. Thebest ofSingapore’s Centre, Newton CircusandLau Food Centre,GoldenMileFood Singapore. Try thehumblestreet visit Harry’s andtheeasy-going lush BotanicGardens,whichis leisurely walk, Iheadover tothe food culture canbeexperienced within close proximity toTheStwithin closeproximity easily available of inmost parts delicacies ischarsiuandcrispy Pa Sat.For downtime, Iusually at itslocalhawker centres. My OverEasy. Occasionally, for a favourites includeMaxwell versions ofthese evergreen “One ofmyfavourite local Executive SousChef fi St Regis Singapore rst UNESCO site.” FABIO GRANATA — TARUNKALRA

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O COME ALL YE FAITHFUL! December sees Resorts WorldTM Sentosa transform into a veritable winter Fantastic Island wonderland of Christmas cheer. Hourly snowfall, a festive ﬁ reworks and lights Singapore’s Resorts World™ Sentosa is rightly acclaimed as one the display, Christmas-themed musical best integrated resorts across the length and breadth of Asia. Curious? performances and Santa’s workshop and toy factory are some Here’s just a few fabulous reasons why it should be on your bucket list. of the highlights.

THRILL SEAKERS ADVENTURE COVE WATER PARK OTHER GREAT ATTRACTIONS DINE IN STYLE UNIVERSAL STUDIOS SINGAPORE Strategically placed next S.E.A. AQUARIUM Joël Robuchon Restaurant Tinsel town’s fi rst theme to Universal Studios, A date with over 1,00,000 This is the only restaurant park in Asia gives you Adventure Cove is the marine creatures in Singapore to garner three premium access and perfect foil to the world of belonging to a staggering Michelin stars, serving up a walk on part into coaster and simulations, 800 species awaits you the fi nest in French haute a back catalogue of your especially when it’s at the world-famous cuisine. The degustation menu, paired with fi ne wines, favourite Hollywood baking hot. Its eclectic aquarium. Don’t miss is its signature dish. yarns. Split into seven collection of fast-moving the Open Ocean Habitat L’Atelier de Joël Robuchon action-packed zones, water rides and aqua- with its 36-metre Avant-garde French cuisine a range of state-of-the- bound experiences are viewing panel. that is lovingly prepared at art immersive rides just the ticket to cool off . a live counter has earned and rollercoasters Adrenaline junkies will DOLPHIN ISLAND L’Atelier two Michelin stars takes you up close and have a whale of a time on Your chance to get up and a reputation for cooking up a culinary storm. personal with the best the Riptide Rocket—Asia’s close and personal of the silver screen. fi rst hydro-magnetic with the fascinating Forest Thrill seekers might rollercoaster-cum- Indo-Pacifi c Bottlenose Singapore celebrity chef, Sam Leong, redefi nes Chinese want to unwrap The waterslide—or aboard dolphin. Feed, interact cuisine. His ten-course Revenge of the Mummy the twists, turns and and learn all about them Discovery menu is a tour de or battle the Decepticons disorientating tunnels of in the hands of experts. force for the taste buds. on Transformers The the Spiral Washout and Ride: The Ultimate 3D Whirlpool Washout. Also, Get up close and personal with dolphins at Dolphin Island. Battle, while smaller try snorkelling along the mites will go a bundle Rainbow Reef where you for Shrek 4-D Adventure can swim with fi sh and or Madagascar: A Crate marvel at a rainbow of Adventure. aquatic colour.

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00 27/10/17 3:57pm SingaporeTHE Guide FLASHBACK FAVOURITES FOOD 1 →BEST WANTON MEE STALLS BAK KUT TEH Fei Fei Wanton Mee 62 Joo Chiat Place Kok Kee Wanton Mee 380 Jalan Besar, A slow-cooked pork rib/spare rib Lavender Food Square, #01-06 broth underlined with rich fl avours Parklane Zha Yun Tun Mee House 91 of pepper, garlic, star anise and Bencoolen Street, #01-53, Sunshine Plaza herbs. Choose the one with pork THE ISLAND CITY’S MULTI-ETHNIC ribs, the meat is so tender, just your 3 CHICKEN RICE CULTURE AND HERITAGE HAS LED TO lips can prise it off . 5 One of the many stories of Bak More accurately known as CHAR KWAY TEOW A RICH, DIVERSE FARE THAT INCLUDES Kut Teh’s invention was that during Hainanese chicken rice, this is one Char Kway Teow is another INNOVATIVE LOCAL DISHES AND the olden days of Singapore, a poor, of Singapore’s most well-known signature Singapore noodle dish starving beggar came by a roadside and celebrated dish. No coff ee made with fl at rice noodles with CELEBRATED GLOBAL DELICACIES. in pork noodle store to beg for food. shop in Singapore is complete sweet dark sauce. Stir-fried with THESE ARE OUR 45 ALL-TIME ‘DIE, The stall owner was equally poor, without a chicken rice stall. egg, pork lard, Chinese sausages DIE, MUST TRY’ THINGS TO TASTE THE but wanted to help him. He boiled The whole chicken is steeped in and fi sh cake, Char Kway Teow some of his left over pork bones and sub-boiling pork and chicken bone was intentionally made to be SPIRIT OF SINGAPORE. WE’RE CERTAIN added whatever cheap spices he had stock to absorb the fl avours and loaded in fats because labourers THEY WILL INSPIRE HEATED DEBATES, to fl avour the soup, including star cook. Some shops will also dip the in the past needed a cheap source anise and pepper, which created bird in ice after cooking to create of energy, and what better way WITH A LOT OF INSTANTLY TWEETED a soup resembling tea in colour. a jelly-like fi nish on the chicken’s than this. ALTERNATIVES HASH-TAGGED TO US, Thus, the pork bone tea was born. skin. The rice used is cooked with →BEST CHAR KWAY TEOW STALLS PLUS A FAIR FEW NODS OF AGREEMENT. Another story goes that this was a chicken stock, ginger, garlic and Hill Street Char Kway Teow Blk 16 Bedok tonic invented to ‘reinvigorate’ the occasionally pandan leaves for South Road, #01-187, Bedok South Road AGREE OR DISAGREE, YOU WILL DROOL Chinese coolies that worked in the fragrance. Chilli sauce made with Market & Food Centre Clark Quay area. The other variant garlic and red chilli is served with Outram Park Fried Kway Teow Mee AS YOU READ. Blk 531A Upper Cross Street, #02-17, would be the Klang Bak Kut Teh, the dish, and the dark sauce and Hong Lim Food Centre a dark and more herbal fl avoured heaped spoons of chopped ginger Number 18 Zion Road Fried Kway Teow 45 soup originating from Malaysia. are also topped on it. 70 Zion Road, Zion Riverside Food Centre, #01-17 →BEST PLACES TO TRY Guan Kee Fried Kway Teow Blk 20 Ghim Ya Hua Bak Kut Teh yahuabakkutteh.com →BEST CHICKEN RICE STALLS Moh Road, #01-12, Ghim Moh Market Song Fa Bak Kut Teh songfa.com.sg Boon Tong Kee boontongkee.com.sg and Food Centre Ng Ah Sio Pork Ribs Soup ngahsio.com Ming Kee Chicken Rice & Porridge Leong Kee (Klang) Bak Kut Teh 321 Beach 511 Bishan Street 13 6 Road (closed on Wednesday) Tian Tian Chicken Rice POPIAH ROLLS 1 Kadayanallur St, #01-10, Maxwell Road akan, the Malay word for ‘food’ always inspires Hawker Centre The round Popiah skin is a thin 2 paper-like wheat crepe that rolls up a passionate conversation in Singapore. The way WANTON MEE all the ingredients. A sweet sauce Germans talk about football and Indians talk about Singapore wanton noodleses were called hoisin is lathered on the laid Bollywood stars, Singaporeans (and anyone who has probably infl uenced by HongHong 4 ORANGE CROISSANT out fl at skin thereupon fi llings are eaten Singaporean food long enough) talk about food. Kong cuisine, but have becomeecome a added. Ingredients within a Popiah All you need to do is ask this innocent question in a Singaporean classic dish.. The local typically include small prawns, version is typically eatenn ‘‘dry’,dry’, boiled eggs, Chinese sausage, lettuce gathering: “Where do you get the best chicken rice?” drenched with some light,t, sweet and bean sprouts. That’s it. Be prepared, it may take a round of Iced sauce, slices of pork charr siu and →BEST POPIAH STALLS Milo to calm everyone down. wanton dumplings fi lled with Glory Catering glorycatering.com.sg Chicken rice, chilli crab, kaya toast... the pork, with a small bbowlowl of Jit It Thai San Popiah Blk real taste of Singapore lies as much in the usual soup on the side. The sspicypicy ttypeype 449 Clementi Avenue 3 sees chilli being mixed intonto tthehe A single orangette Qi Ji 109 North Bridge Road, suspects, as it does in innovative dishes found noodles, while the non-spicypicy kkidsids (candied orange peel) is folded #01-17, Funan IT Mall elegantly into Tiong Bahru Bak- Miow Sin Popiah & Carrot Cake everywhere from hawker centres to upscale restaurants. version will have tomato sauce ery’s exemplary croissant. Enough 380 Jalan Besar #01-04, M mixed in. The Malaysian variant is Here are 45 dishes that we think capture said. tiongbahrubakery.com Lavender Food Square all the wonderful fl avours, talents and a darker coloured sauce, sweetesweeterr Ann Chin Popiah Blk 335, Chinatown Complex Market, Smith Street #02-112 passion this city has for food. tasting mee.

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Singapore_Guide_45_Listing-2nd time.indd 16-17 28/10/17 4:33 pm SingaporeTHE Guide FLASHBACK FAVOURITES FOOD 1 →BEST WANTON MEE STALLS BAK KUT TEH Fei Fei Wanton Mee 62 Joo Chiat Place Kok Kee Wanton Mee 380 Jalan Besar, A slow-cooked pork rib/spare rib Lavender Food Square, #01-06 broth underlined with rich fl avours Parklane Zha Yun Tun Mee House 91 of pepper, garlic, star anise and Bencoolen Street, #01-53, Sunshine Plaza herbs. Choose the one with pork THE ISLAND CITY’S MULTI-ETHNIC ribs, the meat is so tender, just your 3 CHICKEN RICE CULTURE AND HERITAGE HAS LED TO lips can prise it off . 5 One of the many stories of Bak More accurately known as CHAR KWAY TEOW A RICH, DIVERSE FARE THAT INCLUDES Kut Teh’s invention was that during Hainanese chicken rice, this is one Char Kway Teow is another INNOVATIVE LOCAL DISHES AND the olden days of Singapore, a poor, of Singapore’s most well-known signature Singapore noodle dish starving beggar came by a roadside and celebrated dish. No coff ee made with fl at rice noodles with CELEBRATED GLOBAL DELICACIES. in pork noodle store to beg for food. shop in Singapore is complete sweet dark sauce. Stir-fried with THESE ARE OUR 45 ALL-TIME ‘DIE, The stall owner was equally poor, without a chicken rice stall. egg, pork lard, Chinese sausages DIE, MUST TRY’ THINGS TO TASTE THE but wanted to help him. He boiled The whole chicken is steeped in and fi sh cake, Char Kway Teow some of his left over pork bones and sub-boiling pork and chicken bone was intentionally made to be SPIRIT OF SINGAPORE. WE’RE CERTAIN added whatever cheap spices he had stock to absorb the fl avours and loaded in fats because labourers THEY WILL INSPIRE HEATED DEBATES, to fl avour the soup, including star cook. Some shops will also dip the in the past needed a cheap source anise and pepper, which created bird in ice after cooking to create of energy, and what better way WITH A LOT OF INSTANTLY TWEETED a soup resembling tea in colour. a jelly-like fi nish on the chicken’s than this. ALTERNATIVES HASH-TAGGED TO US, Thus, the pork bone tea was born. skin. The rice used is cooked with →BEST CHAR KWAY TEOW STALLS PLUS A FAIR FEW NODS OF AGREEMENT. Another story goes that this was a chicken stock, ginger, garlic and Hill Street Char Kway Teow Blk 16 Bedok tonic invented to ‘reinvigorate’ the occasionally pandan leaves for South Road, #01-187, Bedok South Road AGREE OR DISAGREE, YOU WILL DROOL Chinese coolies that worked in the fragrance. Chilli sauce made with Market & Food Centre Clark Quay area. The other variant garlic and red chilli is served with Outram Park Fried Kway Teow Mee AS YOU READ. Blk 531A Upper Cross Street, #02-17, would be the Klang Bak Kut Teh, the dish, and the dark sauce and Hong Lim Food Centre a dark and more herbal fl avoured heaped spoons of chopped ginger Number 18 Zion Road Fried Kway Teow 45 soup originating from Malaysia. are also topped on it. 70 Zion Road, Zion Riverside Food Centre, #01-17 →BEST PLACES TO TRY Guan Kee Fried Kway Teow Blk 20 Ghim Ya Hua Bak Kut Teh yahuabakkutteh.com →BEST CHICKEN RICE STALLS Moh Road, #01-12, Ghim Moh Market Song Fa Bak Kut Teh songfa.com.sg Boon Tong Kee boontongkee.com.sg and Food Centre Ng Ah Sio Pork Ribs Soup ngahsio.com Ming Kee Chicken Rice & Porridge Leong Kee (Klang) Bak Kut Teh 321 Beach 511 Bishan Street 13 6 Road (closed on Wednesday) Tian Tian Chicken Rice POPIAH ROLLS 1 Kadayanallur St, #01-10, Maxwell Road akan, the Malay word for ‘food’ always inspires Hawker Centre The round Popiah skin is a thin 2 paper-like wheat crepe that rolls up a passionate conversation in Singapore. The way WANTON MEE all the ingredients. A sweet sauce Germans talk about football and Indians talk about Singapore wanton noodleses were called hoisin is lathered on the laid Bollywood stars, Singaporeans (and anyone who has probably infl uenced by HongHong 4 ORANGE CROISSANT out fl at skin thereupon fi llings are eaten Singaporean food long enough) talk about food. Kong cuisine, but have becomeecome a added. Ingredients within a Popiah All you need to do is ask this innocent question in a Singaporean classic dish.. The local typically include small prawns, version is typically eatenn ‘‘dry’,dry’, boiled eggs, Chinese sausage, lettuce gathering: “Where do you get the best chicken rice?” drenched with some light,t, sweet and bean sprouts. That’s it. Be prepared, it may take a round of Iced sauce, slices of pork charr siu and →BEST POPIAH STALLS Milo to calm everyone down. wanton dumplings fi lled with Glory Catering glorycatering.com.sg Chicken rice, chilli crab, kaya toast... the pork, with a small bbowlowl of Jit It Thai San Popiah Blk real taste of Singapore lies as much in the usual soup on the side. The sspicypicy ttypeype 449 Clementi Avenue 3 sees chilli being mixed intonto tthehe A single orangette Qi Ji 109 North Bridge Road, suspects, as it does in innovative dishes found noodles, while the non-spicypicy kkidsids (candied orange peel) is folded #01-17, Funan IT Mall elegantly into Tiong Bahru Bak- Miow Sin Popiah & Carrot Cake everywhere from hawker centres to upscale restaurants. version will have tomato sauce ery’s exemplary croissant. Enough 380 Jalan Besar #01-04, M mixed in. The Malaysian variant is Here are 45 dishes that we think capture said. tiongbahrubakery.com Lavender Food Square all the wonderful fl avours, talents and a darker coloured sauce, sweetesweeterr Ann Chin Popiah Blk 335, Chinatown Complex Market, Smith Street #02-112 passion this city has for food. tasting mee.

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Singapore_Guide_45_Listing-2nd time.indd 16-17 28/10/17 4:33 pm SingaporeTHE Guide ASSAM/TANGY FOOD 7 9 16 BAK CHOR MEE CARROT CAKE MILO DINOSAUR, GODZILLA, T-REX… COFFEE SHOP CLASSICS Singapore Fried Carrot cake is FIERY The iced chocolate and Colloquially known as Bak Chor Mee, this is a noodle dish with made with eggs, preserved radish 12 malt-powdered drinks are made Barbecued Sting Ray minced pork, liver, meat balls/ 19 (chai poh) and white radish fl our PEPPER/CHILLI CRAB hot, cooled with ice and then with Sambal the stingray is coated fi sh balls, fi sh cake slices and a cake, which resembles a ‘white Wilin Low may have coined the heaped on with a spoonful of in a spicy sauce and grilled for a signature vinegar braised sauce smokey fl avour. carrot’ and that’s how the name term ‘mod-Sin’, but Chef Han Li Milo powder. The powder sinks that adds some wetness. Variants comes about. Variants include the Guang totally elevated the cuisine into the drink slowly and in include an exclusively soup Chui Kueh is a dense rice cake ‘black’ version, which is with sweet when he opened Labyrinth in clumps, so what you get with your 20 version with home-made noodles that’s topped with savoury preserved sauce (molasses) added, or a crispy 2013. His incredibly elegant, spoon are little pockets of sweet famous at Bedok Blk 85. vegetables. version with the cake fried on top modernist take on Singapore’s cocoa malty goodness. 14 of a beaten egg to create a crust and favourite dishes is a feast for the →BEST MILO STALLS →BEST BAK CHOR MEE STALLS CANTONESE COMFORT CLASSICS Fish Ball Soup is served piping chunks of cake. senses. Chilli crab, for instance, is Nana Teh Tarik 65 Killiney Road Tai Hwa Pork Noodle 21 The list is long, but you must try Blk 466 Crawford Lane #01-12 hot with a side of chillis. →BEST FRIED CARROT CAKE STALLS presented as a beach scene on a Al Ameen Eating House 2-4 Cheong Chin Nam Road the dim sum (baked and fried), 58 Minced Meat Mee 3 Yung Sheng Road, Carrot Cake 20 Kensington Park Road, plate. labyrinth.com.sg Rasa Istimewa Waterfront Restaurant Chinese fusion dishes, steamed rice #03-150, Taman Jurong Market and 22 Hong Kong-Style Wonton Chomp Chomp Food Centre (closed on Food Centre →FOR THE ORIGINAL rasaistimewa.com.sg with scallion oil, crispy Peking duck Noodle Soup has a delicious seafood alternate Tuesdays) Seng Hiang Food Stall (soup variant) Fu Ming Carrot Cake Blk 85 Redhill Lane, Long Beach Seafood or zesty pan-seared Wagyu beef broth, thin egg noodles and wontons Blk 1018 East Coast Parkway Blk 85 Bedok North Street 4, with pork and shrimp fi lling. Redhill Food Centre 10 cubes with sea salt and lime. Fengshan Market & Food Centre Crab Party 98 Yio Chu Kang Road ROJAK Hai Sheng Carrot Cake Blk 724 Ang Mo Kio Kai Garden kaigarden.com.sg Seng Kee Mushroom Minced Pork Ave 6, Market and Food Centre, #01-09 Ban Leong Wah Hoe Seafood Singapore Chinese/Malay Rojak Noodles 49A Serangoon Garden Way, 23 Tuna Murtabak uses a dough He Zhong Carrot Cake 51 Upper Bukit Timah 122 Casuarina Road that is stuffed with minced lamb, egg is a mixture of youtiao (dough Serangoon Garden Market & Food Centre Rd, Bukit Timah Market and Food Centre 15 and onions or tuna and sambal. fritters), bean sprouts, tau 13 RICKSHAW NOODLES OON’S LAKSA pok (beancurd puff s), radish, 17 8 This assembled dish of yellow MEE SIAM Roast Duck Noodle Soup gets ROTI PRATA pineapple, cucumber and roast 24 Violet Oon, Singapore’s Hokkien noodles in pork and its fl avours from the sweet and peanuts, mixed together with a Popular among the Muslim Roti Prata is of Indian origin, answer to Julia Child, may anchovy broth sold by mobile savoury duck, with all its fatty meat. black, fermented prawn paste community as well as Chinese, has a Malay name, and is eaten have built her name on cooking hawkers on trishaws is a thing of sauce. Chilli is optional. Mee Siam has been absorbed by the Chinese! That’s what and teaching Singaporeans Fish Cake is minced fi sh meat the past. However, it can still be into Singapore’s Nonya culture. 25 Singapore racial harmony is how to cook Peranakan food. →BEST ROJAK STALLS pounded till it is springy. found in the lush confi nes of The Mee Siam means Siamese noodles all about. A fried paratha, Roti But at her eponymous bistro, Al Mahboob Indian Rojak Blk 506, Cliff ord Pier at The Fullerton Bay Tampines Ave 4, #01-361 and is vermicelli soaked in a Prata’s popular variants are it is her modern renditions Hotel, where chef Ken Zheng has Chinese Seafood Omelette uses Toa Payoh Rojak Blk 51 Old Airport Road, sweet and spicy gravy fl avoured 26 made by adding cheese, eggs, of Nonya classics that make shrimp, salmon or just any seafood. #01-108, Old Airport Road Food Centre created his own two versions. by tamarind (assam), dried mushroom, onions or even nutella repeat visitors out of us. Try Hoover Rojak 90 Whampoa Drive, #01-06 →BEST NOODLES STALLS shrimp and Tau Cheo (fermented to the batter. The dough is fl ipped her dry laksa, swathed in a Whampoa Food Centre Otak-otak is a grilled cake The Fullerton Bay Hotel bean paste). It usually comes with 27 multiple times into a large thin fragrant laksa pesto and topped made of mashed fi sh mixed with fullertonhotels.com a boiled egg, bean sprouts and layer before folding the edges in. with prawns, tau pok (bean 11 Teo Heng Porridge Stall coconut milk, chilli and spices. tau pok (beancurd puff ) and is Some outlets also fl ip the dough curd puffs) and bean sprouts GYOZA AT THE GYOZA BAR Hong Lim Food Centre, 531A Upper Cross Street garnished with chives. so thin that it turns crispy when and the buah keluak (black The upper level of Ramen fried on the metal pan. These mangrove nut) pasta—a tangle Matsuri at Boat Quay has →BEST MEE SIAM STALLS are called ‘paper’ or ‘tissue’ of smooth angel hair noodles Dju Dju Indonesian Food Blk 304 the little-known Gyoza Bar, Serangoon Ave 2, #01-14 a noodle dish using egg yellow richly fl avoured with the prata. Prata is served with fi sh or reminding us that some of the Killiney Kopitiam killiney-kopitiam.com noodles like the type in Hokkien chicken curry, while some people pungent black nut, chilli padi, best Japanese food is found at Wak Limah Stall 320 Shunfu Road, prawn mee, with a brown, sweet like to have the caramelised minced prawns and coconut obscure spots. Decorated with #02-15, Shunfu Food Centre curry gravy. milk. Violet Oon’s Kitchen banana and sugar version. lanterns, look out for a door →BEST MEE REBUS STALLS →BEST PRATA STALLS 881 Bukit Timah Road with a small signage that says 18 Afandi Hawa & Family Mee Rebus Blk MEE REBUS Thasevi Famous Jalan Kayu Prata →FOR THE ORIGINAL Gyoza Bar. The Yaki Gyoza is 14 Haig Road, #01-21, Haig Road Restaurant 237 & 239 Jalan Kayu 328 Katong Laksa worth every bit of the money, In the past, mobile hawkers would Food Centre Casuarina Curry Restaurant 51/53 East Coast Road one of the best that can be found sell Mee Rebus on the road using Inspirasi stall Blk 207 New Upper Changi casuarinacurry.com Road, #01-11, Bedok Town Centre Market Sungei Road Laksa in Singapore—crispy thin skin, a pole and two hanging baskets— The Roti Prata House Blk 27 Jalan Berseh, #01-100 and Food Centre plump fi llings moist with juice. 246M Upper Thomson Rd Janggut Laksa one basket with the ingredients Selera Kita Blk 58 New Upper Changi ENAQ Restaurant 1 Queensway, Queensway Shopping Pop each into the mouth to and the other with the stove and Road, #01-182, Block 58 Market and Block 303 Jurong East Street 32 Centre, #01-59 experience the burst. gyozabar.sg boiling hot water. Mee Rebus is Food Centre

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Singapore_Guide_45_Listing-2nd time.indd 18-19 28/10/17 4:33 pm SingaporeTHE Guide ASSAM/TANGY FOOD 7 9 16 BAK CHOR MEE CARROT CAKE MILO DINOSAUR, GODZILLA, T-REX… COFFEE SHOP CLASSICS Singapore Fried Carrot cake is FIERY The iced chocolate and Colloquially known as Bak Chor Mee, this is a noodle dish with made with eggs, preserved radish 12 malt-powdered drinks are made Barbecued Sting Ray minced pork, liver, meat balls/ 19 (chai poh) and white radish fl our PEPPER/CHILLI CRAB hot, cooled with ice and then with Sambal the stingray is coated fi sh balls, fi sh cake slices and a cake, which resembles a ‘white Wilin Low may have coined the heaped on with a spoonful of in a spicy sauce and grilled for a signature vinegar braised sauce smokey fl avour. carrot’ and that’s how the name term ‘mod-Sin’, but Chef Han Li Milo powder. The powder sinks that adds some wetness. Variants comes about. Variants include the Guang totally elevated the cuisine into the drink slowly and in include an exclusively soup Chui Kueh is a dense rice cake ‘black’ version, which is with sweet when he opened Labyrinth in clumps, so what you get with your 20 version with home-made noodles that’s topped with savoury preserved sauce (molasses) added, or a crispy 2013. His incredibly elegant, spoon are little pockets of sweet famous at Bedok Blk 85. vegetables. version with the cake fried on top modernist take on Singapore’s cocoa malty goodness. 14 of a beaten egg to create a crust and favourite dishes is a feast for the →BEST MILO STALLS →BEST BAK CHOR MEE STALLS CANTONESE COMFORT CLASSICS Fish Ball Soup is served piping chunks of cake. senses. Chilli crab, for instance, is Nana Teh Tarik 65 Killiney Road Tai Hwa Pork Noodle 21 The list is long, but you must try Blk 466 Crawford Lane #01-12 hot with a side of chillis. →BEST FRIED CARROT CAKE STALLS presented as a beach scene on a Al Ameen Eating House 2-4 Cheong Chin Nam Road the dim sum (baked and fried), 58 Minced Meat Mee 3 Yung Sheng Road, Carrot Cake 20 Kensington Park Road, plate. labyrinth.com.sg Rasa Istimewa Waterfront Restaurant Chinese fusion dishes, steamed rice #03-150, Taman Jurong Market and 22 Hong Kong-Style Wonton Chomp Chomp Food Centre (closed on Food Centre →FOR THE ORIGINAL rasaistimewa.com.sg with scallion oil, crispy Peking duck Noodle Soup has a delicious seafood alternate Tuesdays) Seng Hiang Food Stall (soup variant) Fu Ming Carrot Cake Blk 85 Redhill Lane, Long Beach Seafood or zesty pan-seared Wagyu beef broth, thin egg noodles and wontons Blk 1018 East Coast Parkway Blk 85 Bedok North Street 4, with pork and shrimp fi lling. Redhill Food Centre 10 cubes with sea salt and lime. Fengshan Market & Food Centre Crab Party 98 Yio Chu Kang Road ROJAK Hai Sheng Carrot Cake Blk 724 Ang Mo Kio Kai Garden kaigarden.com.sg Seng Kee Mushroom Minced Pork Ave 6, Market and Food Centre, #01-09 Ban Leong Wah Hoe Seafood Singapore Chinese/Malay Rojak Noodles 49A Serangoon Garden Way, 23 Tuna Murtabak uses a dough He Zhong Carrot Cake 51 Upper Bukit Timah 122 Casuarina Road that is stuffed with minced lamb, egg is a mixture of youtiao (dough Serangoon Garden Market & Food Centre Rd, Bukit Timah Market and Food Centre 15 and onions or tuna and sambal. fritters), bean sprouts, tau 13 RICKSHAW NOODLES OON’S LAKSA pok (beancurd puff s), radish, 17 8 This assembled dish of yellow MEE SIAM Roast Duck Noodle Soup gets ROTI PRATA pineapple, cucumber and roast 24 Violet Oon, Singapore’s Hokkien noodles in pork and its fl avours from the sweet and peanuts, mixed together with a Popular among the Muslim Roti Prata is of Indian origin, answer to Julia Child, may anchovy broth sold by mobile savoury duck, with all its fatty meat. black, fermented prawn paste community as well as Chinese, has a Malay name, and is eaten have built her name on cooking hawkers on trishaws is a thing of sauce. Chilli is optional. Mee Siam has been absorbed by the Chinese! That’s what and teaching Singaporeans Fish Cake is minced fi sh meat the past. However, it can still be into Singapore’s Nonya culture. 25 Singapore racial harmony is how to cook Peranakan food. →BEST ROJAK STALLS pounded till it is springy. found in the lush confi nes of The Mee Siam means Siamese noodles all about. A fried paratha, Roti But at her eponymous bistro, Al Mahboob Indian Rojak Blk 506, Cliff ord Pier at The Fullerton Bay Tampines Ave 4, #01-361 and is vermicelli soaked in a Prata’s popular variants are it is her modern renditions Hotel, where chef Ken Zheng has Chinese Seafood Omelette uses Toa Payoh Rojak Blk 51 Old Airport Road, sweet and spicy gravy fl avoured 26 made by adding cheese, eggs, of Nonya classics that make shrimp, salmon or just any seafood. #01-108, Old Airport Road Food Centre created his own two versions. by tamarind (assam), dried mushroom, onions or even nutella repeat visitors out of us. Try Hoover Rojak 90 Whampoa Drive, #01-06 →BEST NOODLES STALLS shrimp and Tau Cheo (fermented to the batter. The dough is fl ipped her dry laksa, swathed in a Whampoa Food Centre Otak-otak is a grilled cake The Fullerton Bay Hotel bean paste). It usually comes with 27 multiple times into a large thin fragrant laksa pesto and topped made of mashed fi sh mixed with fullertonhotels.com a boiled egg, bean sprouts and layer before folding the edges in. with prawns, tau pok (bean 11 Teo Heng Porridge Stall coconut milk, chilli and spices. tau pok (beancurd puff ) and is Some outlets also fl ip the dough curd puffs) and bean sprouts GYOZA AT THE GYOZA BAR Hong Lim Food Centre, 531A Upper Cross Street garnished with chives. so thin that it turns crispy when and the buah keluak (black The upper level of Ramen fried on the metal pan. These mangrove nut) pasta—a tangle Matsuri at Boat Quay has →BEST MEE SIAM STALLS are called ‘paper’ or ‘tissue’ of smooth angel hair noodles Dju Dju Indonesian Food Blk 304 the little-known Gyoza Bar, Serangoon Ave 2, #01-14 a noodle dish using egg yellow richly fl avoured with the prata. Prata is served with fi sh or reminding us that some of the Killiney Kopitiam killiney-kopitiam.com noodles like the type in Hokkien chicken curry, while some people pungent black nut, chilli padi, best Japanese food is found at Wak Limah Stall 320 Shunfu Road, prawn mee, with a brown, sweet like to have the caramelised minced prawns and coconut obscure spots. Decorated with #02-15, Shunfu Food Centre curry gravy. milk. Violet Oon’s Kitchen banana and sugar version. lanterns, look out for a door →BEST MEE REBUS STALLS →BEST PRATA STALLS 881 Bukit Timah Road with a small signage that says 18 Afandi Hawa & Family Mee Rebus Blk MEE REBUS Thasevi Famous Jalan Kayu Prata →FOR THE ORIGINAL Gyoza Bar. The Yaki Gyoza is 14 Haig Road, #01-21, Haig Road Restaurant 237 & 239 Jalan Kayu 328 Katong Laksa worth every bit of the money, In the past, mobile hawkers would Food Centre Casuarina Curry Restaurant 51/53 East Coast Road one of the best that can be found sell Mee Rebus on the road using Inspirasi stall Blk 207 New Upper Changi casuarinacurry.com Road, #01-11, Bedok Town Centre Market Sungei Road Laksa in Singapore—crispy thin skin, a pole and two hanging baskets— The Roti Prata House Blk 27 Jalan Berseh, #01-100 and Food Centre plump fi llings moist with juice. 246M Upper Thomson Rd Janggut Laksa one basket with the ingredients Selera Kita Blk 58 New Upper Changi ENAQ Restaurant 1 Queensway, Queensway Shopping Pop each into the mouth to and the other with the stove and Road, #01-182, Block 58 Market and Block 303 Jurong East Street 32 Centre, #01-59 experience the burst. gyozabar.sg boiling hot water. Mee Rebus is Food Centre

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Singapore_Guide_45_Listing-2nd time.indd 18-19 28/10/17 4:33 pm SingaporeTHE Guide FESTIVE & FAMILY SWEET FOOD 43 SUGEE CAKE time to get tempted by this sweet 28 31 snack. If you don’t like bread, you 40 BAK KWA TEOCHEW PORRIDGE KAYA TOAST AND SOFT BOILED EGGS can have it sandwiched between What it is: Sweet-salty sheets of We have a signifi cant number of two wafer biscuits. But the bread Set A. That’s all you have to barbecued pork jerky traditionally Teochews in Singapore who have version is the yummiest. And it’s say. They greatly improve any sold around Chinese New Year (but contributed much to the street probably the only thing that still Monday morning: two slices of now, you can get all year round). food we know today. Teochew meat), tossed in kelp, topped with costs only S$1. traditional bread grilled and There is a range of Bak Kwa for porridge is like an introduction sous-vide char siu (barbecued smeared with a layer of ‘kaya’ No other dessert speaks Eurasian more than sugee cake (semolina one to sample at Lim Chee Guan. course to their cuisine, noted for pork), boiled wantons, onsen 38 and featuring four mini blocks almond cake). At Chin Mee Chin Con- limcheeguan.com.sg the fresh seafood and cooking tamago (poached egg) and a crispy 7-UP PORK RIBS/COFFEE RIBS of melting butter. Served with fectionery, it is decadently buttery, methods such as braising and potato-wrapped prawn. The result: The delicacy is also called soft-boiled eggs topped with light dense yet moist with chunks of fi nely 29 steaming. It is comfort food at its a bowl heady with the fl avour of Champagne pork ribs, the name soya sauce and white pepper. If chopped almond in the batter. YUMMY YU SHENG 204 E, East Coast Road fi nest, with dishes such as steamed crustacean. Stall number #01-39, coming from the fi zzy drink used you love boiled dhaba-tea, you’ll This raw fi sh salad is no ordinary pomfret done simply to retain its Amoy Street Hawker Centre to tenderise the meat. Chinese enjoy the Teh (tea with sweet dish, but an auspicious one that natural sweetness. Find it at stalls cooking wine is used as well and the condensed milk) that comes as a is most commonly eaten during such as Teo Heng. combination of bubbles and wine part of Set A. Chinese New Year. Rest of the 37 ICE-CREAM BREAD results in a sweet caramelised pork →BEST KAYA TOAST STALLS 44 year, you can try it at Zhen Zhen 32 dish with crisp skin and tender Good Morning Nanyang Cafe SINGAPORE RAMEN FRENCH HOT CHOCOLATE Porridge. They serve it with slices This is a sandwich made from a meat. Similar in taste, but with the 20 Upper Pickering Street, Hong Lim Green Community Centre Parisian tearoom Angelina has of fresh wolf herring with lettuce, A Noodle Story opened a couple slice of rainbow-coloured sweet heady aroma of Nanyang-style kopi, ginger, fried shallot, toasted sesame, of years ago by two Shatec-trained white bread and a brick-like slab of Ya Kun Kaya Toast 18 China Street #01-01, arrived in Singapore, fi nding are the coff ee pork ribs. Far East Square (there are over 30 outlets of sesame oil and fresh squeezed ‘hawkerpreneurs’ who use modern strawberry or chocolate ice cream. its home at luxury lifestyle mall →BEST COFFEE RIBS STALLS Ya Kun in Singapore) lime. What makes this refreshing European kitchen techniques You can’t miss the slightly crabby Capitol Piazza City Hall. Angelina Por Kee Eating House has a history from 1903, when dish unique is the use of local wolf to make Singaporean dishes. ‘uncles’ selling ice-cream bread on 69 Seng Poh Ln #01-02 41 herring fi sh that is also commonly Inspired by Japanese and Hong Orchard Road. The Ngee Ann City Proust and Coco Chanel were Siang Hee Restaurant Serangoon Garden ONDEH-ONDEH CUPCAKES used to make fi shballs. Maxwell Kong noodles, their fusion dish crossing across Paragon has at least Market & Food Centre, 49A Serangoon customers at the tearoom at There is more than artisanal coff ee Food Centre 1 Kadayanallur Street is unique—noodles styled after three of them permanently parked, Garden Way Rue Du Rivoli. You have to try and brunch plates available at Bak Chor Mee (fl at yellow noodles so while you wait for the pedestrian the old-fashioned hot chocolate this Tiong Bahru cafe. Grab the 30 with mushrooms and minced light to turn green, there’s plenty of 39 L’Africain and Mont Blanc (sweet JANICE WONG’S ECLAIRS ondeh-ondeh cupcake (S$3.50), if STEAMBOAT chestnut purée vermicelli, smooth it is available. The cupcake version From Chocolate Paint in a variety light whipped cream beneath the Try a luxe version of this family- of the traditional Malaysian kueh of colours to eclairs in fantastic layer and meringue as its base). style meal at the Hotpot Kingdom, (dessert) is executed perfectly. MODERN fl avours (from popcorn to Angelina Capitol Galleria #01-82, Marina Bay Sands. From the The icing is pandan fl avoured and pandan) featuring chocolate art 15 Stamford Road famous Chungking—Szechuan hot dusted with coconut shavings, 33 35 reproductions of Matisse paintings, pot, Korean kimchi stone pots to PORK BELLY ROLL AT IZY FRENCH TOAST WITH RUM SABAYON and just like the kueh, the cupcake Janice Wong is Singapore’s queen 45 Macanese stews, you’ll fi nd their has a decadent gula melaka PULUT HITAM CAKE A deceptively simple but More like indulgent bread pudding of desserts. Her sweet boutique, soup bases are a result of long hours centre. The cafe also has cupcake mind-blowing snack of thin than a breakfast dish, this dessert— 2am in Holland Village is an This Ang Mo Kio bakery has been of simmering and super fresh versions of other local desserts sliced meat wrapped around a crafted from buttery brioche that’s experience that bewitches one’s in business since 1982, steadily ingredients. B1-01B, Galleria Level, like Chendol (coconut milk-based generous slice of fresh young made in-house—boasts a custardy mind as much as the taste buds. keeping up with the times, fusing The Shoppes at Marina Bay Sands drink with green jelly-like rice- ginger (to cut the fat). Bar food at interior and a brown brûléed top, 2amdessertbar.com the old with the new seamlessly. its best. Izy izy.com.sg can’t be beat. The quenelle of vanilla fl our noodles) and peanut pancake. The Pulut Hitam cake (black ice-cream served alongside creates a 40 Hands 40handscoff ee.com glutinous rice cake) is one of the 343 fantastic hot-cold contrast too. most popular, with a vanilla sponge FOIEFOIE GGRAS WITH YUZU AT IKYU Fordham & Grand 43 Craig Rd 42 CANDLENUT’S BUAH KELUAK ICE-CREAM base, coconut-fl avoured fresh TheirThe impressive foie gras is cream dotted with glutinous rice marinatedma with saikyo miso 36 An eye-opening combination of and a layer of pulut hitam on top. CEREAL PRAWNS anda then pan-seared, so it has the Peranakan black nut with dark Unlike the original dessert-in-a- a lovely caramelised crust Fried in butter, topped with fried curry chocolate and chilli specks (which bowl version (a thick, sweet stew but is still rare within. The leaves and chilli padi, the prawns are crackle in the mouth like pop of black glutinous rice drizzled accompaniment of raw koh-shin coated in a batter of oats that turn rocks), this salty-sweet dessert’s with coconut milk), this is a light, daikon and fresh wasabi cut crisp when fried. Red House Seafood the stuff of dreams. 331 New Bridge textured cake. Pine Garden’s Cake through the richness. redhouseseafood.com Road, #01-03 Dorsett Residences 529, Ang Mo Kio Ave 10

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Teochew meat), tossed in kelp, topped with costs only S$1. traditional bread grilled and There is a range of Bak Kwa for porridge is like an introduction sous-vide char siu (barbecued smeared with a layer of ‘kaya’ No other dessert speaks Eurasian more than sugee cake (semolina one to sample at Lim Chee Guan. course to their cuisine, noted for pork), boiled wantons, onsen 38 and featuring four mini blocks almond cake). At Chin Mee Chin Con- limcheeguan.com.sg the fresh seafood and cooking tamago (poached egg) and a crispy 7-UP PORK RIBS/COFFEE RIBS of melting butter. Served with fectionery, it is decadently buttery, methods such as braising and potato-wrapped prawn. The result: The delicacy is also called soft-boiled eggs topped with light dense yet moist with chunks of fi nely 29 steaming. It is comfort food at its a bowl heady with the fl avour of Champagne pork ribs, the name soya sauce and white pepper. If chopped almond in the batter. YUMMY YU SHENG 204 E, East Coast Road fi nest, with dishes such as steamed crustacean. Stall number #01-39, coming from the fi zzy drink used you love boiled dhaba-tea, you’ll This raw fi sh salad is no ordinary pomfret done simply to retain its Amoy Street Hawker Centre to tenderise the meat. Chinese enjoy the Teh (tea with sweet dish, but an auspicious one that natural sweetness. Find it at stalls cooking wine is used as well and the condensed milk) that comes as a is most commonly eaten during such as Teo Heng. combination of bubbles and wine part of Set A. Chinese New Year. Rest of the 37 ICE-CREAM BREAD results in a sweet caramelised pork →BEST KAYA TOAST STALLS 44 year, you can try it at Zhen Zhen 32 dish with crisp skin and tender Good Morning Nanyang Cafe SINGAPORE RAMEN FRENCH HOT CHOCOLATE Porridge. They serve it with slices This is a sandwich made from a meat. Similar in taste, but with the 20 Upper Pickering Street, Hong Lim Green Community Centre Parisian tearoom Angelina has of fresh wolf herring with lettuce, A Noodle Story opened a couple slice of rainbow-coloured sweet heady aroma of Nanyang-style kopi, ginger, fried shallot, toasted sesame, of years ago by two Shatec-trained white bread and a brick-like slab of Ya Kun Kaya Toast 18 China Street #01-01, arrived in Singapore, fi nding are the coff ee pork ribs. Far East Square (there are over 30 outlets of sesame oil and fresh squeezed ‘hawkerpreneurs’ who use modern strawberry or chocolate ice cream. its home at luxury lifestyle mall →BEST COFFEE RIBS STALLS Ya Kun in Singapore) lime. What makes this refreshing European kitchen techniques You can’t miss the slightly crabby Capitol Piazza City Hall. Angelina Por Kee Eating House has a history from 1903, when dish unique is the use of local wolf to make Singaporean dishes. ‘uncles’ selling ice-cream bread on 69 Seng Poh Ln #01-02 41 herring fi sh that is also commonly Inspired by Japanese and Hong Orchard Road. The Ngee Ann City Proust and Coco Chanel were Siang Hee Restaurant Serangoon Garden ONDEH-ONDEH CUPCAKES used to make fi shballs. Maxwell Kong noodles, their fusion dish crossing across Paragon has at least Market & Food Centre, 49A Serangoon customers at the tearoom at There is more than artisanal coff ee Food Centre 1 Kadayanallur Street is unique—noodles styled after three of them permanently parked, Garden Way Rue Du Rivoli. You have to try and brunch plates available at Bak Chor Mee (fl at yellow noodles so while you wait for the pedestrian the old-fashioned hot chocolate this Tiong Bahru cafe. Grab the 30 with mushrooms and minced light to turn green, there’s plenty of 39 L’Africain and Mont Blanc (sweet JANICE WONG’S ECLAIRS ondeh-ondeh cupcake (S$3.50), if STEAMBOAT chestnut purée vermicelli, smooth it is available. The cupcake version From Chocolate Paint in a variety light whipped cream beneath the Try a luxe version of this family- of the traditional Malaysian kueh of colours to eclairs in fantastic layer and meringue as its base). style meal at the Hotpot Kingdom, (dessert) is executed perfectly. MODERN fl avours (from popcorn to Angelina Capitol Galleria #01-82, Marina Bay Sands. From the The icing is pandan fl avoured and pandan) featuring chocolate art 15 Stamford Road famous Chungking—Szechuan hot dusted with coconut shavings, 33 35 reproductions of Matisse paintings, pot, Korean kimchi stone pots to PORK BELLY ROLL AT IZY FRENCH TOAST WITH RUM SABAYON and just like the kueh, the cupcake Janice Wong is Singapore’s queen 45 Macanese stews, you’ll fi nd their has a decadent gula melaka PULUT HITAM CAKE A deceptively simple but More like indulgent bread pudding of desserts. Her sweet boutique, soup bases are a result of long hours centre. The cafe also has cupcake mind-blowing snack of thin than a breakfast dish, this dessert— 2am in Holland Village is an This Ang Mo Kio bakery has been of simmering and super fresh versions of other local desserts sliced meat wrapped around a crafted from buttery brioche that’s experience that bewitches one’s in business since 1982, steadily ingredients. B1-01B, Galleria Level, like Chendol (coconut milk-based generous slice of fresh young made in-house—boasts a custardy mind as much as the taste buds. keeping up with the times, fusing The Shoppes at Marina Bay Sands drink with green jelly-like rice- ginger (to cut the fat). Bar food at interior and a brown brûléed top, 2amdessertbar.com the old with the new seamlessly. its best. Izy izy.com.sg can’t be beat. The quenelle of vanilla fl our noodles) and peanut pancake. The Pulut Hitam cake (black ice-cream served alongside creates a 40 Hands 40handscoff ee.com glutinous rice cake) is one of the 343 fantastic hot-cold contrast too. most popular, with a vanilla sponge FOIEFOIE GGRAS WITH YUZU AT IKYU Fordham & Grand 43 Craig Rd 42 CANDLENUT’S BUAH KELUAK ICE-CREAM base, coconut-fl avoured fresh TheirThe impressive foie gras is cream dotted with glutinous rice marinatedma with saikyo miso 36 An eye-opening combination of and a layer of pulut hitam on top. CEREAL PRAWNS anda then pan-seared, so it has the Peranakan black nut with dark Unlike the original dessert-in-a- a lovely caramelised crust Fried in butter, topped with fried curry chocolate and chilli specks (which bowl version (a thick, sweet stew but is still rare within. The leaves and chilli padi, the prawns are crackle in the mouth like pop of black glutinous rice drizzled accompaniment of raw koh-shin coated in a batter of oats that turn rocks), this salty-sweet dessert’s with coconut milk), this is a light, daikon and fresh wasabi cut crisp when fried. Red House Seafood the stuff of dreams. 331 New Bridge textured cake. Pine Garden’s Cake through the richness. redhouseseafood.com Road, #01-03 Dorsett Residences 529, Ang Mo Kio Ave 10

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Singapore_Guide_45_Listing-2nd time.indd 20-21 28/10/17 4:33 pm SingaporeTHE Guide FESTIVALS

Chingay parade, where clowns and magicians, colourful ﬂ oats make scavenger hunts and their way down the street. stand-up comics at the Goes well with… Magners International Chinatown is Comedy Fest. particularly festive Goes well with… during this season, Sentosa Island’s Trick with street markets Eye Museum is ideal for selling decorations and a fun afternoon spent traditional food and taking goofy pictures at music and dance shows the interactive exhibits. at night. funfest.asia visitsingapore.com World Gourmet Singapore Summit Festival of Fun MONTH April 2-29 MONTH March 8-18 Celebrated chefs from Indulge in family fun around the world with SpongeBob, the bring innovative Ninja Turtles and other menus to Singapore’s street performers as top restaurants at local kids make the most a series of specially of the school holidays. curated culinary and The 2017 edition featured wine events. Sample Nickelodeon characters degustation menus, at Clarke Quay, learn about craft

From above: The 3D artworks beers or rare Japanese at Trick Eye Museum, RWS whiskies and sign up for transport you to an imaginative world; St Jeromes Laneway interactive events with Festival hits all the right notes St Jerome’s the Bay, downtown acclaimed master chefs. with acclaimed performers. Singapore’s green lung, Opposite: Chingay Parade Laneway Festival Goes well with… started in 1973 as a MONTH January where an elevated Hit up Singapore’s neighbourhood parade, but Australia’s most popular walkway connects the celebrated hawker later evolved into one of the biggest street parades in Asia. indie music export, futuristic supertrees. centres like Lau Pa Laneway returns to singapore. Sat and Maxwell Food 12 Singapore for its eighth lanewayfestival.com Centre for quick, bit of Chinese heritage. year, with an electrifying easy-on-the-pocket Soak in the festival’s REASONS TO line-up of 15 bands. Chinese fare. worldgourmet electric atmosphere at Big names, including New Year summit.com DBS Marina Regatta, STAY LONGER Anderson, Paak, Mac MONTH February where you can watch DeMarco, Bonobo, The Singapore welcomes Dragon Boat teams compete and War on Drugs and others the Year of the Dog with Festival snack on traditional IN SINGAPORE play at the massive parades, lantern-strung MONTH May rice dumplings. An action-packed calendar of events in outdoor location, The streets, lion dances and Slender, colourful Goes well with… 2018 offers many reasons to linger a few Meadow at Gardens by the a festive vibe. Sample boats painted with Take a bumboat ride days longer in Singapore and indulge Bay, at this much-loved traditional food like dragons race through to the charming island in internationally acclaimed music, art, daylong music festival. pineapple tarts, shrimp the water as drums beat, of Pulau Ubin to sporting and gourmet festivals. Goes well with… rolls and bak kwa (pork ﬂ ags wave and hordes spend a day in lush,

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12 Reasons to Stay_N-2nd time.indd 22-23 28/10/17 4:34 pm SingaporeTHE Guide FESTIVALS

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12 Reasons to Stay_N-2nd time.indd 22-23 28/10/17 4:34 pm SingaporeTHE Guide FESTIVALS

focus on Singapore’s at the National Museum national monuments, and Art Museum, and international and is a major draw. local performance nightfestival.sg artists will interact Goes well with… with audiences through Check out the readings, exhibits and Peranakan Museum, installations, apart from showcasing the unique music and theatre. heritage of the Baba sifa.sg Nyonya community. Goes well with… Catch a performance at Singapore Esplanade—Theatres Grand Prix on the Bay, which hosts MONTH September 14-16 concerts, workshops Top names from the and theatre in halls with motorsport circuit wonderful acoustics. participate in thrilling races at the annual Night Festival Formula 1 Grand MONTH August Prix, held at the With grand light Marina Bay Street installations on iconic Circuit. Apart from Sands at glitzy rooftop heritage buildings, the races, headlining bars such as Cé La Vi music and theatre entertainment acts have and 1-Altitude. Above: The indoor performances and included names such as skating rink at Christmas interactive art exhibits, Ariana Grande, Calvin Singapore Marina Bay Sands; Wonderland Singapore’s nights come Harris, One Republic Esplanade–Theatres MONTH December Wine Fiesta on the Bay; a part of alive for two weekends and many more. MONTH October the famed Taking Experience a tropical in August. Events are singaporegp.sg Now in its 11th year, the Past Forward Christmas at Gardens sculpture at concentrated in the Goes well with… this outdoor wine Peranakan Museum. by the Bay with a Bras Basah-Bugis area, Experience the nightlife event features vino Opposite, from European-style and Night Lights, held around Marina Bay from around the world, above: Three dragon Christmas market FROM TOP: MARCUS MOK/GETTYIMAGES; COURTESY OF ULTRASINGAPORE.COM boats ready to race including France, Italy, at the Singapore complete with mulled Australia and New River Festival; an wine, baked treats, electrifying Zealand, alongside great performance at the dressed up trees and food, at sit-down dinners Ultra Music plenty of yuletide Ultra Goes well with… Festival, Singapore. Music Festival For live acoustic gigs, and wine tastings. Meet cheer. Kids will love MONTH June check out Timbre’s chain with vineyard owners the carousel and posing Among the world’s of restaurants, where and enrol for masterclass with Santa in his largest electronic budding musicians from sessions to brush up cottage, and can even music festivals, Ultra their music academy your wine knowledge. The stretch along outdoor parties along try ice-skating. promises two days of regularly perform. Goes well with… the Singapore River the open-air stretch to Goes well with… top international DJs, Try bespoke cocktails transforms into a celebrate the heritage of Singapore’s iconic electronic, house and Singapore at the charming Bar hotbed of activity as the river. srf.sg shopping stretch techno acts on three International Stories, located in music, art installations, Goes well with… Orchard Road comes stages. Held at Marina Festival of Arts a shophouse on the parties and events Step in for a drink alive with stunning Bay Sands, past editions MONTH July atmospheric Haji Lane. pop up at Boat Quay, at the trendy Beast light displays, street have featured big names Music, dance and winefi esta.com.sg Clarke Quay and & Butterfl ies bar at performers and like Kygo, DeadMau5, theatre come together Robertson Quay. the Philippe Starck- Christmas off ers at AfroJack, Steve Aoki in a month-long Singapore There are LED light designed M Social the many malls. and Tiesto. celebration of the arts. River Festival displays, dragon boat boutique hotel at christmaswonder

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12 Reasons to Stay_N-2nd time.indd 24-25 28/10/17 4:34 pm SingaporeTHE Guide FESTIVALS focus on Singapore’s at the National Museum national monuments, and Art Museum, and international and is a major draw. local performance nightfestival.sg artists will interact Goes well with… with audiences through Check out the readings, exhibits and Peranakan Museum, installations, apart from showcasing the unique music and theatre. heritage of the Baba sifa.sg Nyonya community. Goes well with… Catch a performance at Singapore Esplanade—Theatres Grand Prix on the Bay, which hosts MONTH September 14-16 concerts, workshops Top names from the and theatre in halls with motorsport circuit wonderful acoustics. participate in thrilling races at the annual Night Festival Formula 1 Grand MONTH August Prix, held at the With grand light Marina Bay Street installations on iconic Circuit. Apart from Sands at glitzy rooftop heritage buildings, the races, headlining bars such as Cé La Vi music and theatre entertainment acts have and 1-Altitude. Above: The indoor performances and included names such as skating rink at Christmas interactive art exhibits, Ariana Grande, Calvin Singapore Marina Bay Sands; Wonderland Singapore’s nights come Harris, One Republic Esplanade–Theatres MONTH December Wine Fiesta on the Bay; a part of alive for two weekends and many more. MONTH October the famed Taking Experience a tropical in August. Events are singaporegp.sg Now in its 11th year, the Past Forward Christmas at Gardens sculpture at concentrated in the Goes well with… this outdoor wine Peranakan Museum. by the Bay with a Bras Basah-Bugis area, Experience the nightlife event features vino Opposite, from European-style and Night Lights, held around Marina Bay from around the world, above: Three dragon Christmas market FROM TOP: MARCUS MOK/GETTYIMAGES; COURTESY OF ULTRASINGAPORE.COM boats ready to race including France, Italy, at the Singapore complete with mulled Australia and New River Festival; an wine, baked treats, electrifying Zealand, alongside great performance at the dressed up trees and food, at sit-down dinners Ultra Music plenty of yuletide Ultra Goes well with… Festival, Singapore. Music Festival For live acoustic gigs, and wine tastings. Meet cheer. Kids will love MONTH June check out Timbre’s chain with vineyard owners the carousel and posing Among the world’s of restaurants, where and enrol for masterclass with Santa in his largest electronic budding musicians from sessions to brush up cottage, and can even music festivals, Ultra their music academy your wine knowledge. The stretch along outdoor parties along try ice-skating. promises two days of regularly perform. Goes well with… the Singapore River the open-air stretch to Goes well with… top international DJs, Try bespoke cocktails transforms into a celebrate the heritage of Singapore’s iconic electronic, house and Singapore at the charming Bar hotbed of activity as the river. srf.sg shopping stretch techno acts on three International Stories, located in music, art installations, Goes well with… Orchard Road comes stages. Held at Marina Festival of Arts a shophouse on the parties and events Step in for a drink alive with stunning Bay Sands, past editions MONTH July atmospheric Haji Lane. pop up at Boat Quay, at the trendy Beast light displays, street have featured big names Music, dance and winefi esta.com.sg Clarke Quay and & Butterfl ies bar at performers and like Kygo, DeadMau5, theatre come together Robertson Quay. the Philippe Starck- Christmas off ers at AfroJack, Steve Aoki in a month-long Singapore There are LED light designed M Social the many malls. and Tiesto. celebration of the arts. River Festival displays, dragon boat boutique hotel at christmaswonder

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12 Reasons to Stay_N-2nd time.indd 24-25 28/10/17 4:34 pm SingaporeTHE Guide LAST STOP

Changi Airport You might just want to spare that little more time for your transit home than you thought, as Singapore’s famous airport is an attraction in its own right.

TERMINAL VELOCITY thing to get your lungs Chicken Potstickers, in are all absolutely gratis The airport’s very latest pumping. Flit through particular, have already and reels roll for 24 edition is its super- a 1000 butterfl ies, send become a dish of legend. hours a day. Every day. shiny, state-of-the-art your olfactory senses And, if you’re not in need Terminal 4. Billed as into overdrive with the of sustenance, simply TWISTING BY THE POOL ‘fast and seamless’, the nose of over 700 orchids pull up a bar stool, order If you’re a water baby new terminal employs a or just marvel at the from an eclectic menu and in need of one last facial recognition system intrinsic weirdness of of cocktails and watch a splash in the pool, then to check-in and print sprawling cactus. Once stylish crowd go about your best bet pre-fl ight baggage tags. You can also you’re through with your their day. option for a dip is the kiss goodbye to the horror arboreal overture, chill rooftop pool at T1. of partial undressing by the Kio ponds and sit, ENDLESS MATINEE It’s part of the Aerotel and bag-emptying at mesmerised, as carefree Those of you with a Transit Hotel and costs security, as CT scan carp glisten beneath slightly longer wait or for non-patrons, but with technology uses its x-ray the aquamarine. an unexpected delay will a Jacuzzi, a pool bar and eyes to check your bags fi nd either of Changi’s great views of taxiing through. If the ergonomic PUCK-ER UP two movie theatres a airplanes, it’s small chips design of the terminal or America’s culinary total boon. Screenings to pay. hypnotic kinetic artwork sweetheart and don’t fl oat your pre-fl ight Hollywood’s best buddy, boat, then the 80-plus Wolfgang Puck, recently FREE @ CHANGI bauble packed shops and unleashed his take on the LIFE DOESN’T HAVE TO stalls littered around T4 pre-fl ight refi ned dining COST A DIME… are bound to. experience, Kitchen, at T3, Changi. Billed as • Internet booths for 15 minutes GARDENS OF FIVE SENSES ‘comfort dining’, this • Xbox 360 and PS3 gaming • Catch Z’s in the Snooze Lounges Feel like a little fresh bar-cum-diner is already • Wear them down in the air? Then, a gentle kicking up a storm Children’s Play Area stroll around one of for those in search of • Four hours’ Wi-Fi Changi’s fi ve concept fl avours a little outside • Foot massage gardens could be just the the norm. His Spicy

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