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Travel: Singapore`s hawker centre food

A culinary carnival A serious but delicious search for the true taste of Singapore I’M in heaven. This is bliss. I have just bitten into a bright green sweet, with coconut shavings scattered atop it. The sweet has released a spurt of cane sugar. Garry, sitting across from me, smiles knowingly. He knows all…

Travel: The Singapore Flyer

FOOTLOOSE Where eagles dare Watching Singapore go about its daily life from the heady heights of the Flyer is an uplifting experience It is 10.20 a.m. and I’m staring at the Merlion. The creature is framed by fat droplets of rain that is furrowing its way down both sides of the spouting statue….

Travel: Fish Reflexology Spa, Singapore

A piscine pedicure The Fish Reflexology Spa at Sentosa is a whole new experience There’s a little Chinese girl in pigtails standing by my shoulder, staring fascinated at my feet. Every few minutes, she lets out a squeal in which apprehension is mixed with delight. When I look down at my feet,…

Travel: Singapore Spas

JETWINGS INTERNATIONAL Pure Hedonism Kick off those shopping shoes and slip into something more comfortable as we take you spa-hopping through the island city of Singapore, home to some of the best spas in the world. For a country that is forever re-defining its tourist attractions, Singapore does one great job. It’s been…

Travel: Singapore`s Orchard Road

POSTCARD FROM SINGAPORE Shop till you drop A ready reckoner for shopping in Orchard Road IT is a lovely long street, dotted with leafy trees, wooden seats at strategic intervals, street stalls selling sumptuous finger food. Once the site of nutmeg and pepper plantations, now Orchard Road is dominated by the many mega malls,…

Travel: Singapore`s Botanical Gardens

In search of the baobab Chasing a childhood chimera, Sheila Kumar walks through Singapore’s beautiful Botanical Gardens I blame it all on Antoine de St Exupery and his “The Little Prince.” Ever since I read that classic, I’ve been wanting to see a baobab tree. And when someone I met at Singapore’s Tony Tanglin Club…