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Singapore: a fascinating city hidden behind a yuppie
When the initial dazzle with Singapore’s modernity, its cleanliness, and its style subsides, the uncomfortable questions start creeping up. You are tempted to ask: how is the country so clean if its...
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Singapore’s Chinatown is kind of gay
No Chinatown should be this clean. Singapore’s Chinatown doesn’t even look like a Chinatown. It’s a trendy neighbourhood in the North American West Coast with some noodle joints sprinkled in. Instead...
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In Singapore, food consumes you
A tragicomedy in three acts . No-one ever goes hungry in Singapore. No-one’s ever given the chance. . Act 1, Scene 1 They call it street food because you can vaguely see the street from your table. Lau...
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Nine underrated things to do in Singapore
Singapore is a trickster, but it doesn’t know it. It makes you think it’s a business city with obsessive-compulsive disorder and no sense of mirth. What a farce. Singaporeans take their pleasure very...
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10 things I learned from Singapore
Why settle for three square meals a day when you can have five or six? . Only tourists should be allowed to lose their money pointlessly in a casino. . Durian is revolting until you spend money on a...
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In As Good as It Gets, Jack Nicholson played an anal, obsessive-compulsive curmudgeon. He was lovable. He had a soul, an undeniable love of pleasures. Singapore is that kind of city. Here are our...
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Gallery: Singapore street fashion
After several months in countries where pyjamas are casual street wear and face masks are as banal as earrings (I’m looking at you, Indochina) it was a delight to arrive in Singapore and walk among...
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