Singapore is a famous free trade port, with world-class commodities. At the same time, as the center of Southeast Asia, there are countless commodities with local characteristics. The rich commodities and good shopping environment attract tourists from all over the world.
Orchard Road and its vicinity are the first choice shopping places for tourists. There are many modern hotels and shopping centers here, with elegant environment and high-grade goods. Renaissance Plaza Building sells first-class brand-name goods, Lucky Shopping Center leads the shopping trend of Orchard Road, Lane Crawford, a British-owned department store, is elegantly decorated, and Isetan Shopping Center is magnificent. On one side of Isetan is the largest shopping center in Singapore with towering twin towers, and on the other side, the famous brand-name goods specialty store street gathers Chanel, Tiffany's and other high-end fashion stores and local department stores Tangs ...
Chinatown is a place full of Chinese life. In the area of Bukit Yala Street, shops of bamboo and rattan products, silk fabrics, Arabic carpets and precious stones are next to each other on both sides of the narrow road, as if walking into the Oriental Night Tan. When you come to Little India, you will immediately be haunted by a strong perfume smell. There are Indian music tapes and CD stores, and there are decoration shops, tribute shops, spice shops, sari shops, gold shops and so on for Indian women.
Singapore is a paradise to buy all kinds of electrical appliances, and all goods are offered at the most favorable prices to satisfy customers' psychology of stressing quality and low price. The shops on Orchard Road sell exquisite Persian, Afghan, China, Pakistani, Indian and Turkish carpets. The most representative local native products, the first soft Buddy cloth, are colorful and exquisitely designed. In addition, there are rattan products from Malaysia, rubies from Myanmar, topaz from India, sapphires and crocodile skin products from Sri Lanka, safflower oil from Chinatown, carpets and characteristic hats in Arabian Street, and so on.
2. Garden City
The roads in Singapore are shaded by trees, and the streets are full of small gardens and lawns. The flowers are green and the air is fresh. It is a small, beautiful, clean and green garden city.
There are all kinds of flowers in Singapore, among which orchids, the national flower, are the most famous. These carefully cared orchids are bright in color and fragrant, leaving a good impression on tourists. The bougainvillea is full of streets and lanes, and even ugly telephone poles are entangled and decorated. The bright red or lavender flowers are attached to the freely extending branches and gently sway in the breeze, and can be opened everywhere even without artificial care. The metal net of some apartments is covered with a lovely flower-Lee Kuan Yew Ivy. The name originated from the fact that former Prime Minister Lee Kuan Yew liked this plant, so Singaporeans competed to cultivate it and named it.
Singapore holds a "Tree Planting Week" every year, and the number and area of trees planted each year are stipulated. This activity is part of the concept of "garden city" advocated by the Singapore government. Planned afforestation has led to many green spaces. The work of collecting garbage is also fruitful. In Singapore, you can hardly see the sight of mosquitoes raging in other tropical countries.
The transparent and quiet sky, exotic flowers and trees, churches with unique styles, sculptures and fountains appearing in the streets from time to time ... make your trip to Singapore enjoyable and unforgettable.
third, the city of food
One of the charms of traveling to Singapore is that you can taste the delicious food from all over the world. There are not only Chinese, Malay and Indian dishes of the three major ethnic groups in Singapore, but also European dishes such as France, Italy and Britain.
There are many kinds of Chinese food, including Cantonese food, Chaozhou food, Fujian food, Sichuan food, Shanghai food, Beijing food, etc. When you taste Chinese food, you can go to the fragrant hall with luxurious atmosphere (Cantonese food), the well-decorated Songyuan Garden (Beijing food), and the inexpensive West Lake snacks (Sichuan food). If you want to try malaysian cuisine and Indian cuisine with unique flavor, you can go to the luxurious and chic Alkcaff Mansion, and you can go to the old-fashioned and elegant Malay restaurant with strong family atmosphere. Muthu's Curry Restaurant, which is famous for its fish head curry, and curry shops everywhere on Happy Valley Road in Little India ...
Afternoon tea is a very popular food culture in Singapore. Cake, sandwich, dim sum and black tea, as an elegant imported culture from Britain, have become the history of colonial times. Among Singaporeans who take pleasure in eating, the amount of afternoon tea is increasing, and the patterns are extremely rich. Snacks include noodles, pizza, fried chicken and Malay snacks, and drinks include China tea, black tea, coffee, soy milk and so on. The long menu reflects the style of Singapore.
If you want to taste Singapore's midnight snack, you should go to the vendor center in Singapore. There is no storefront here, and vendors who are operating everywhere gather together, sometimes called "food center". Such vendor centers are hard to count, and there must be vendors in crowded places. For example, from Newton Circle, a tourist attraction, to the first floor of a high-rise building, there are a group of vendors with local customers. These vendors operate a variety of dishes, ranging from Chinese food, malaysian cuisine food, Indian food to western food and Japanese food. It's cheap and delicious. The "vendor center" is an indispensable page in Singapore's food culture.