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 Tiger Sky Tower- Ascend to the top of this 361-foot (110-meter) tower on Sentosa Island for a breathtaking view of Singapore.
- Old Parliament House.
- Originally designed by George Coleman, the building is considered Singapore's oldest government building.
- Clarke Quay
- The centre of Singapore at its beginning, it has become somewhere to shop, to eat and have a good night out , as well as take a boat.
- Boat Quay
- It was the busiest part of old Singapore and many rows of shophouses for homes and business were built there. These have now been carefully preserved and accommodate bars clubs a and restaurants.
- Chinatown
- This area is a concentration of traditional Chinese architecture and cultural features. Nowadays, it is less important as a community enclave but it still has cultural significance and it has been carefully restored accomodating shops, hotels, bars and businesses.Sections of it have been declared a national heritage site.
- Arab District
- North of Beach and North Bridge Roads, this is a Malay area which observes Islam closely and maintains Islamic traditions carefully. At the centre is the Sultan Mosque, or Masjid Sultan and its streets are named after prominent places in the Moslem world.
- Little India
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Centred on Serangoon Road, this district was granted to the Indian community by Sir Stamford Raffles. It is recognition of the importance of Indians to Singapore from its beginning. Although it has modernized itself over time, the atmosphere and flavours of India pervade it.
- Chijmes Compound
- This was once a French convent school. Now it is a collection of shops , restaurants and bars and still with a beautiful chapel, used now as a banquet hall.
- Singapore Polo Club
- The sport of kings is showcased at this historic clubhouse off Thomson Road. Indeed, Malaysian royals occasionally play on the greens.
- Singapore Cricket Club
- Take a walk around the green Padang and admire this structure's sensational colonial architecture.
- Singapore Turf Club
- Come on a live racing day to experience the pulse of Singaporean gamblers.
- East Coast Sailing Centre, East Coast Parkway
- At this sailing center you can wind-surf and then linger past sunset at the outdoor Pasta Fresca Italian restaurant
- Singapore Grand Prix
- Inaugurated in 2008, it is the first night race in the F1 circuit and it is held in September each year.
- Chinatown Complex Wet Market
- Spy and smell virtually every edible animal, seafood, and plant that makes its way onto a Singapore table. Colorful, hectic, entertaining, and wet. Stalls in the dry area sell such items as clothing and toys.
- Tekka Market
- Near the top of Serangoon Road, is the place to go for spices and seafood. Singaporeans flock here for dried goods, beef, mutton, curry paste, crabs, and freshwater fish. Upstairs at the Tekka Centre you'll find Indian clothing, brassware, linen, and antique knick knacks.
- Ngee Ann City, Orchard
- Anchored by Takashimaya, this complex draws you in with more than 100 specialty stores and the largest bookstore in Southeast Asia.
- Sim Lim Square, Colonial
- More than a hundred stores with everything and anything that can be plugged in.
- The Camera Workshop
- Colonial. Enthusiastic photographers educate, rather than force sales on inexperienced shoppers.
- Club 21, Orchard
- All the best fashion designers are concentrated in this underground store linked to the Hilton Hotel.
- Singapore Polo Club
- The sport of kings is showcased at this historic clubhouse off Thomson Road. Indeed, Malaysian royals occasionally play on the greens.
- Singapore Cricket Club
- Take a walk around the green Padang and admire this structure's sensational colonial architecture.
- Singapore Turf Club
- Come on a live racing day to experience the pulse of Singaporean gamblers.
- East Coast Sailing Centre, East Coast Parkway
- At this sailing center you can wind-surf and then linger past sunset at the many seafood restaurants located nearby.
- Singapore Grand Prix
- Inaugurated in 2008, it is the first night race in the F1 circuit and it is held in September each year.
- Chinatown Complex Wet Market
- Spy and smell virtually every edible animal, seafood, and plant that makes its way onto a Singapore table. Colorful, hectic, entertaining, and wet. Stalls in the dry area sell such items as clothing and toys.
- Tekka Market
- Near the top of Serangoon Road, is the place to go for spices and seafood. Singaporeans flock here for dried goods, beef, mutton, curry paste, crabs, and freshwater fish. Upstairs at the Tekka Centre you'll find Indian clothing, brassware, linen, and antique knick knacks.
- Ngee Ann City, Orchard
- Anchored by Takashimaya, this complex draws you in with more than 100 specialty stores and the largest bookstore in Southeast Asia.
- Sim Lim Square, Colonial
- More than a hundred stores with everything and anything that can be plugged in.
- The Camera Workshop, Colonial
- Enthusiastic photographers educate, rather than force sales on inexperienced shoppers.
- Club 21, Orchard
- All the best fashion designers are concentrated in this underground store linked to the Hilton Hotel.
- Three Singapore Styles
- Doc Cheng's, Raffles Hotel
An Asian fusion restaurant that really gets the theme to work.
Blue Ginger, Tanjong Pagar
This restaurant serves authentic Nonya cuisine, the particular Singaporean version of Chinese food. Decor downstairs contemporary, second floor, period.
Banana Leaf Apolo, Race Course Road, Little India.
This South Indian restaurant serves very spicy curries in banana leaves. - Hawker Centres
- Newton Circus near Orchard Road, is the biggest.
Lau Pa Sat Festival Market (18 Raffles Quay. Raffles Place) is an outdoor centre in the financial district at Raffles Place and Maxwell Road Hawker Centre is near Tanjong Pagar.
Food courts are found in shopping centres with airconditioning and are a bit more expensive.
Noteable ones are Picnic, in Scotts Centre and Food Chain, in the Orchard Emerald.
- Orchard Road (Within walking distance)
- Dubliner's Irish Pub
Pub grub and varieties of beer next door to Lanson Place
Peranakan Place, opposite Somerset MRT
Early 20th century shop houses in Singapore Chinese style accommodating restaurants and bars.
Cuppage Plaza Koek Road
Restaurants, mostly Asian, pubs and bars with dancing.
Chatterbox, in the Meritus Mandarin Hotel
A well-known spot for eating Singapore's famous Chicken Rice dish.
Lawry's Paragon, 290 Orchard Rd
They have a single entrée- standing rib roasts aged for up to 21 days and then slow roasted on beds of rock salt. Also popular is the Spinning Bowl Salad and side dishes.
Pete's Place at the Grand Hyatt, Scott's road
In the basement of the hotel's west wing, it serves hearty Italian food
Mezza9 at the Grand Hyatt, Scott's Road
Here there are nine open kitchens spread around a very contemporary minimalist dining space.
Nude Supper Club
A design feat involving a transparent catwalk over running water and a huge aquarium.
Les Amis, 1 Scott's Road
A high class French restaurant of repute and long standing.
- Dempsy Hill (10 minutes by Taxi, opposite the Botanical Gardens)
- Long Beach Seafood Restaurant
Synonymous with award winning seafood dishes and best known for its invention of the legendary black pepper crab. Founded in 1946, it has five branches, all popular with visitors and locals.
Jumbo@Dempsey
They serve fresh 'live' seafood, Singapore style and especially crab.
Samy's Curry
In a colonial building that used to be the defence ministry, this restaurant, founded in the 50s, has a reputation for good South Indian food. Signature dishes are Masala Chicken, Fish cutlet, Fish Head Curry and Mysore Mutton.
The Prime Society
The steaks are cooked and served on fragrant oak planks - a technique favoured by South Americans -and accompanied by grilled vegetables and fries.
La Fondue
They offer twenty cheeses, twenty meats and seafood in three cooking styles - broth, grill and deep-fry and twenty chocolate fondues. Pastas and mains for lunch and ten varieties of pancakes for breakfast.
Karma Kettle Café and Wine Bistro
Located in a former British barracks building, this is a cosy place producing dishes that are a sort of fusion of Asian and British Raj cuisine.
Angel's Share
700 wine labels in stock with 50 available by the glass along with a specially paired wine cuisine.
Raikuichi Japanese Restaurant
Authentic Japanese food in a comfortable stylish restaurant in the Far East Shopping Centre.
Vintage India
Fine Indian food in Raj style surroundings under chandeliers. Their signature dishes include marinated lamb chops, tiger prawns and tandoori chicken.
Margarita's, 1-19 Dempsey Road
A Tex-Mex restaurant with fresh ingredients, potent chilled margaritas and a verandah.
Go-Go Bambini
Go-Go Bambini is a large indoor children's entertainment centre offering active play in an air-conditioned environment for children aged 0-11 years. There is also a café. (10 mins) - Holland Village
- Wala Wala Café and Bar
Known as Wala to the locals, an iconic watering hole in the neighbourhood for over a decade. The downstairs bar is lit yellow and upstairs there is music and comedy.
Dao Paolo Gastromania
Authentic Italian cuisine in a cosy three-storey shophouse decorated in simple whites and browns. Notable dishes are home-made pastas-fettuccine, ravioli, tagliatelle, taglioni--with your choice of sauces and ingredients.
(15 mins) - Clarke Quay
- Harry's Bar
Harry's Bar is one of a chain of over 30 bars around Singapore. They are cosmopolitan in style aiming for consistent high quality service and good live music.
Ivory - The India Kitchen
This 90- seater restaurant serves Indian cuisine from the Coastal region of India with flavours from the Indian Coastal belt of Goa, Konkan, Malabar, Mangalore, Chettinad, Andhra Pradesh and Bengal. They do buffet lunches.
Shisha's Lounge Bar
an 80-seater cocktail bar with very contemporary music and tapas with the drinks, is under the same roof as Ivory.
Quayside Seafood
A riverfront restaurant serving classical seafood dishes in the Singapore style. It's a well situated place in contemporary design and they do a 15% early bird discount between 5.30 and 7pm.
Clark Quay Indochine
Set in the Quays' oldest building, Indochine is a gallery cum wining and dining concept. The Madam Butterfly restaurant is upstairs, the Bar Cocoon is downstairs and all set about by artefacts. The entrance is flanked by two huge terracotta warrior figures.
Brewerkz Restaurant and Microbrewery
Occupying a prime location on the Singapore River this well-established, full-service restaurant features high quality American, Deep South-style food and a full range of premium beers handcrafted on-site from the 10 hl microbrewery attached to the restaurant.
The Tent Mongolian Fresh Grill
You pick out fresh ingredients that appeal to you and hand them to the chef to cook and they will be grilled on a hotplate. You eat under a tent style ceiling draped with fabric or in an outdoor courtyard.
Crazy Elephant
A well know night spot to blues jam. (10 mins) - Boat Quay
- Jade, Fullerton Hotel CBD.
A high class Chinese restaurant, strikingly designed in the Fullerton Hotel.
Kinara Indian Restaurant
Kinara has riverside tables or you can eat inside the renovated shophouse, decked-out like an ornately decorated Indian residence with copper, iron, teak and sandstone. The food matches the richness of the décor.
Shah Alam, 20 Circular Road
No frills, fast service and very tasty are the features here. It serves the late night and after -the -theatre crowd very well.
Lee Tong Kee, 278 South Bridge Road
Sor har fun - white noodles in sauces - is what they are famous for and they have been serving it since 1948.
Genesis Health Food
Genesis offers a fully vegetarian menu without any animal products. They serve a variety of dishes from almond basil pasta to traditional zha jiang mian - noodles.
Piper's Pies, 252 North Bridge Road
They handmake the pies daily with 100 per cent Australian beef and flakey pastry- and they do 'lamingtons'.
Werner's Oven
This is a German restaurant and bakery run by a German couple since 1988. They serve fresh German bread and pastries, cakes, home-made sausages, crispy pork knuckle and German beer & Wine.
Café Iguana
Every nook and corner of this restaurant cum bar highlights Mexican culture. The bar, known as the 'La Bodeguita del Tequila' exhibits hundred kinds of tequilas.
Gorkha Grill, 21 Smith Street
This small and pleasant restaurant is tucked behind the hawker stalls lining Smith Street. The food is Nepalese with pungent spices and flavourful rice.
Nadezdha, 140 Arab Street
A Russian owner and Russian chefs make this restaurant a rarity in Singapore. The food is hearty and authentic.
BQ Bar
A modern bar in an old shop house by the riverside, it has an open feeling and a friendly atmosphere. It is a particular favourite with expatriates after the office.
Fez Bar, 57 Boat Quay
This is a bar with a Moroccan-theme located above the Kinara Indian Restaurant. Fez feels like an exclusive club yet plays house and R&B.
Harry's Quayside Cafe
A famous jazz bar on Boat Quay, it's a very relaxed place with good river views.
Zouk, Velvet Underground, Phuture, Robertson Quay.
The hip and beautiful gather at these world-class dance clubs, where varying music styles and age groups mix very well.(10 mins)
- National Museum of Singapore, 93 Stamford Road
- Reopened in December 2006 after three years of restoration and reinvention, this architecturally stunning and majestic building is home to the Singapore History Gallery and four Living Galleries - Fashion, Food, Photography and Film. You can see treasures such as the mystery-shrouded Singapore Stone and 14th century gold ornaments unearthed from nearby Fort Canning Hill.
- Asian Civilizations Museum, 1 Empress Place CBD
- The museum's two locations -- one on Armenian Street and the other at Empress Place - showcase pan-Asian culture.
- Chinese Theatre Circle, Chinatown
- Chinese opera is staged here in a way that makes it understandable to everybody, including people who don't speak Chinese.
- NUS Museums, West Coast
- At any one time NUS displays some 1,000 objets d'art from a collection of 10,000 pieces.
- Tan Swie Hian Museum, East Coast
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Singapore's first private art museum has a serious collection by this Singaporean artist.
- The Esplanade. Theatres By The Bay
- The Esplanade has a concert hall, theatres, studios and entertainment spaces staging opera, plays, dance, concerts, recitals pop, rock- the lot-on a prime site in Marina Bay. There are shops, food and drink too.
- The Singapore Symphony Orchestra
- A full-time professional orchestra with 96 members, the SSO performs at the Esplanade Concert Hall, the Victoria Concert Hall and other venues. Performing over 50 symphonic programmes a year, its versatile repertoire spans the all-time favourites and orchestral masterpieces to cutting-edge premieres.
- Festivals
- Singapore has a wide range of festivals spanning the year
Singapore Arts Festival
Singapore River Buskers' Festival
Singapore International Comedy Festival
Singapore International Film Festival
Singapore Writers' Festival
Singapore Food Festival
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