Dinning Concept
You will always find: Outdoor hawkers, food courts, restaurants of any class and type in quaint little shop houses in niche neighborhoods, shopping centres and malls. And what's in a meal without sweets? Therefore, brand coffee cafes and dessert palors such as Star Buck, Coffee Beans, Olio Dome and Hagen Daaz Ice-cream are easy finds when the need for that sugar-rush is calling!

Among many things...Singapore is well known for its love affair with FOODS! Whether they are local or continental palattes, you can rest assure this "live to dine" attitude is very much alive. It is telling as we even celebrate FOOD FESTIVAL (29 March to 30 April 2002) every year! Just like what you will learn from the introduction to our Nightlife, dinning places are just stone throw away. Starting with local the goodies, you can't miss The Newton Circle Hawkers (Outdoor - Day & Night - mentioned in any self-respecting Singapore Guide) and if you really wish to rough it out along side the locals you ought to try Geyland (Late at night is best from Lorong 20 to12 - Street in Malay). In the heartland is Serangoon Gardens' Chom-Chom (Outdoor - Night only) and in the central buisness district is Lau Pa Sat (Old Market in Hokkien, Chinese - Day & Night). One of the many blessings we leverage from our multi-cultural bliss is a diverse blend of Chinese, Malay, Indian and Peranakan foods. While you are getting stretch-marks around your eyes wandering "what'd I try?".

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Singapore Delights - the MUST try!
Chinese > Hai-Nam Chicken Rice (Usually poached sometimes roasted). Duck Rice. Char-Kua-Tiow (stir-fried Noodle in dark soy sauce with Fish Cake & Shrimp). Mee Pok (Fish Ball Noodle - Dry or Soup). Wonton Mee (Minced Pork & Shrimp Dumbling Noodle with BBQ Pork slices - Dry or Soup). Hokkien Mee (stir-fried Egg-flour Noodle with Seafoods). Chilli Crab. Yong-Tow-Fu (smooth, steamed, dry and deep-fried beancurd with vegetable and other wholesome incredients in soup or rice vermiceili). BBQ Sting Ray. Teo-Chew-Mua (Teochew Porridge with an assortment of dishes). Malay > Nasi Lamak (Pandan Leaf fragranted rice topped with deep-fried anchovy, groundnuts, fish, sunny-side egg & that deverlishly hot fish cake). BBQ Chicken Rice. Satay (skewed pieces of BBQ Chicken, Beef or Mutton with peanut sause - Our Malay friends are Muslims, so Pork is never used). Nasi Padang (Yellow or White rice with an assortment of Malay dishes: Rendang - curry beef & Ikan Bakar - BBQ fish just to name a couple). Mee Soto (Chicken Broth Noodle). Mee Rebus (Noodle in Rebus Herb Gravy). Indian > Roti Prata (Pan-fried flour doe - plain, eggs & onion cubes or stuffed with chicken or mutton). Soup Kambing (Mutton Soup). Mee Goreng (stir-fried noodlees with Motton and minced Shrimp). Fish Head Curry. Chicken, Beef, Mutton or Prawn Curries. Little India (Southern Indian treats) in Serangoon Road offers a lot more excitements and choices too. Don't worry...most outdoor hawker centres are very hygenic! Just enjoy.

Continental, Fine Dinning & Niche Fixes
In Holland V (lovingly referred to here - stands for Villiage) is Cha-Cha-Cha for Mexican food. Just a few doors away, we go to George's Downunder for a spin on a King's or Queen's cut of Sirloin or T-bone. Across the street from HV are Original Sin for Mediterranean vegetarian and Michelangelo for fine-dine Italian. Enjoy colonial Singapore charm (a 1920 relic to be excat) and fine-dine on hilltop splender in the Alkaf Mansion (10 Telok Blangah Green). For a Northen Indian treat, it will be Shahi Marharani located in the Raffles Citiy Shopping Centre (in the CBD area). Ang Siang Hill (Off South Bridge Road) is up and coming! Da Paolo is (in 80 Club Street and also 66 Tanjong Pagar Road) probably the first Italian restaurant in that neighborhood. Another Italian fine dinning restaurant is Prego at the Westin Plaza, Level 1. However if you wish to catch a "cousin belting out Italian operatic tunes" sometimes...you will choose Pasta Fresca by the beach along Marine Parade's East Coast Parkway in the Singapore Surf Club! (Also one to be found in Boat Quay). Back to Cross Street, still on Club Street is IndoChine (say "Sheen" will soon be opened also in the City Hall - Bell Tower neighborhood facing popular Boat Quay across the river). an exquisite blend of Thai, Cambodian, Indonesian and Vietnamese cusines in one brilliantly designed restaurant that also boast a fabulous wine bar on the ground floor. Still further down to Cross Street in the Telok Ayer neighborhood, you will find wholesome and authentic Japanese dinning at Mains' Japanese Meal House on 15 Stanley Street (Off Boon Tat and flanked by Amoy and Cecil Streets). Across from Cross Street is Far East Square. At Mama Africa (at the Telok Ayer Street traffic junction) you'd enjoy yummy dishes from South Africa. Of course, the infamous Orchard Road is not short on dinning ideas either. One in particular which tickles us "borch-rishly" pink is Shaslik Russian restaurant on the 6th floor of Far East Shopping Centre (next to The Hilton). Before your wayward encounter at Top10 in Orchard Tower, get your Margarita fix and hearty cuts of Lamp Chop in the Monkey Cafe (1st floor in the back end of Orchard Tower - also Halal authorised Muslim restaurant). The Blue Ginger at The Heeren Shopping Mall (260 Orchard Road, Unit 05-02C) takes you on a journey of old and new for an experience in Peranakan cusines. Off Orchard Road at Killiney Road is a rare treat to the best Dry Martini in town. You'll find it in the bar at Devonshire Grill which serves a delightful continental mix of French-English cusines (Situated in a shop house compund behind the BP Petrolium Station at Lloyd & Killiney junction). To chill and hang with the surfer-type on weekends, go to Charlie's in the Changi Village. (At the corner end of Changi hawker centre - day wet market). This laid-back restaurant and pub serve both local and export beers with delicious little dishes of Italian garlic and German sausages, fish and chips, honey-glazed chicken wings and chunky potatoe-wedges! Well then, here is wishing all eat-till-your-heart-contend!

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