Shopping and dining paradise: Singapore garden city travel guide
Date：2014/06/19
For many people, Singapore is a glittering amusement park. It has Asian Disney World that attracted the world tourists, as well as five-star attractions and worth of billions park, clean streets and low crime rate, which make every tourist feel happy to visit here. For westerners, this is a very attractive city, not only because Singapore’s lingua franca- English, but also many foreign residents. Let us follow American online news- to explore the meaningful things other than the high buildings and 5 dining restaurants.
Others than food, Singapore is the world famous shopping center. Everybody’s heard of Orchard Rd, Singapore’s shopping mecca. You will find most what you want here. In this street have a lot of luxury shop such as Louis Vuitton, Gucci and Prada, a lot of discount promotions at high-end shopping mall such as Paragon, Ngee Ann City and The ION.
If you like those featured vintage clothing, may visit to Haji Lane and Sungei Road Thieves Market. In antiques market, you will find some novelty and funky things. If want for ancient treasures, Sungei Road Thieves Market will not let you down. Despite of hustle and bustle in the street and outrageous price, but you will get something goods after exploring.
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This city not only knowing by shopping, but also the famous city parks, museums and zoo. Although these place are overcrowded, but it is worth for you to spending the time there. You can visit to the Garden by the Bay and the Singapore Zoo. An area of 250 square meters garden has renovate recently and planted bloom greenhouse plants (flower dome), and thousand type of plants. Many verge of extinction species. Although these flowers dome surprising enough, but this garden most attractive is the ‘super tree’. These spectacular solar buildings turn the sunlight into energy.
Visitors can walk around the sidewalk on ‘super tree’ (this sidewalk around 50 meter high). Only spend $28, you can enjoy a leisure trip far away from busy city.
Another tourist attraction is the zoo, the building is situated above a reservoir at Seletar (Singapore place name), which the world most attraction. Unlike some United State’s zoo, this zoo is completely open to visitors, mean that, no animal is kept in the cage. There are more than 2500 kinds of animal in the zoo. Open model lead more intimacy between animal and man.
Another attraction is the famous island known as hidden gem, which has not yet been occupied by modern skyscrapers, the Bukit Brown cemetery on the island has more than 100,000 historical graves, this land desolate from 70s, everyway weeds become the habitat for wild animal, this land was once the quiet and peaceful place, but unfortunately, will soon a large number of infrastructure and housing construction here.
To enjoy authentic Singaporean cuisine, try the city top selling food court. You can meet with Singaporean fanatic with food in these multi-ethnic food court. This food court provide over thousand kind of Asian cuisine, whether Malaysian, Indian, Thailand or others. Prices below $10 for no matter what kind of food you choose, and most are supply all over the day. Most popular food court place in Chinatown Maxwell Road, famous chicken rice, and a Buddhist temple located opposite here.
Another attraction is Bharu, located in the trendy district, which Singapore’s famous foods stalls gathering here. Every noon and weekends, the street are always crowded.
If you want to dine with wealthy celebrities, you may wish to visit Jaan restaurant, which ranking in top 10 of Asia’s best restaurant, you can enjoy the delicious in tongue, but also enjoy the beauty of the whole city at 70-storey.
Finally, remember that must taste of Perankan dishes when come to Singapore, Perankan mean the posterity of early immigrant from China and Malaysia, Their food are very spicy. The best Perankan restaurant is located at Candlenut road at Chinatown.
In Singapore, you not only can enjoy the delicious dishes, enjoy the mesmerizing beauty, but also experience the local rich culture activities.