Must see, do, eat in Singapore?

[Corrie]

Hello my lovely Local Guides 🙂 I am lucky enough to be spending the next week or so in Singapore and I'd love to hear any recs or tips you may have for me 🙂 

I read @ImperialP's post about The Best Nasi Lemak in Singapore, but if anyone else has any other advice for while I'm on this side of the world, it would be much appreciated 🙂 

This is one of the many birds that have been hollering outside my hotel window tonight... well... they were until this epic thunderstorm started 🙂 

[JessicaA]

Hey @Corrie,

Lucky you!  I have a few friends who live in Singapore and I am happy to share some recco's I've gathered through the years:

Brunch:

1. Artichoke: http://www.artichoke.com.sg/

2. Forty Hands: http://www.40handscoffee.com/

3. Five & Dime http://www.fiveanddime.com.sg/

4. Common Man Roasters 

Stroll:

Yong Siak Street in Tiong Bahru. Get brunch there, have a cupcake at Plain Vanilla Bakery, check out the amazing little independent bookstore Books Actually, walk through the neighborhood!

Gardens by The Bay

Singapore Art Museum Area

Singaporean Food

Uncle Leong Seafood - Please go if you can! http://www.uncleleongseafood.com/ it's a bit out of the way but honestly it's the BEST crab, as attested by our local friends and by our bellies. The salted egg crab is to DIE FOR. also the butter cream crab and teh clay pot crab w noodles. Skip the chilli crab if you've had it before to make room for the others. Go to the branch in Toa Payoh if you can because the salted egg crab is better there.

Lao Pa Sat - Food market in the middle of the CBD. Go for satay at the stall that called themselves BEST SATAY, they actually are the best.  I think they are the second right most stall. Grab a sugar cane with lime or sour plum drink. 

Also go to Tiong Bahru market if you want hawker food for lunch. The Char Siew rice (pork belly with sticky soy sauce on rice) and the chwee kueh (theres only one stand, beside a thai stand, cant miss it) it's like kuchinta-type rice cakes but savory with pickled radish na spicy on top. OMG so good

Dinner/Drinks (Lounge-y/Pubs):

1. The Library - Super dark "secret" bar in Chinatown. You have to go behind a bookshelf to enter and say a password. Every week they put password clues on the Facebook page of the restaurant beside it (which is also a good place for dinner, btw)
Facebook link for password: https://www.facebook.com/KeongSaikSnacks
Yelp page of The Library: http://www.yelp.com.sg/biz/the-library-singapore

2. 28 Hong Kong Street - Another Speakeasy. Not as darkly lit as the first. Nice vibe and they have special cocktails.
http://www.hungrygowhere.com/singapore/28_HongKong_Street/
http://www.28hks.com/

3. Bar Stories & Maison Ikoku - 2 different places but both do bespoke cocktails. So no menu, just tell them what you feel like or what you want to feel like
http://www.yelp.com.sg/biz/bar-stories-singapore-2
http://www.maison-ikkoku.net/

4. Lolla - Fancy pretty date place http://lolla.com.sg/

5. Club Street Social http://www.clubstreetsocial.com/

6. Open Door Policy - dinner/date place http://www.odpsingapore.com/

7. Loof - nice chill rooftop bar in front of Raffles Hotel http://www.loof.com.sg/

8.  Coq & Balls - Pub! http://coqnballs.com/

10. Cufflink Club - They have little toy soldiers in their ice cubes for some drinks, and also zombie eye balls in some. Lounge-y but can get full at night https://www.facebook.com/The.Cufflink.Club

11. Vintage Room - Pretty Art Deco space; awesome mojitos http://thevintageroom.sg/

[Corrie]

@JessicaA THANK YOU!!!!! This is soooooo helpful!!!

[Shirni]

Hi Corrie,

Since it is Chinese New Year this weekend. 

Maybe you would like to drop by to Chinatown and full immerse yourself into the Chinese New Year mood.

We just had a Chinese New Year themed LG event. Here's the details if you wanna replicate it.

Itinerary:
1. Chinatown Visitor Center
2. Buddha Tooth Relic Temple
3 Sri Mariamman Temple
(I know, but we need to make a quick stop here beacause it is Singapore’s oldest Hindu temple 8 Sri Mariamman Temple, built in 1827 and now a national monument)
4. Chinatown Heritage Centre
5. Chinatown Street Market & Food Street
-shopping and food!
Here's the Photo Story Album.
https://goo.gl/photos/UR146fMCUML4chk87

 For more photo, go to the link https://goo.gl/photos/UR146fMCUML4chk87

For more photo, go to the link https://goo.gl/photos/UR146fMCUML4chk87

[NalinK]

well contact @JeslynL maybe? 🙂 am pretty sure you can find plenty of things to do in there 🙂

here some of my favorite places / locations from singapore

1. Old Ford Motor Factory - ( https://goo.gl/maps/KzVjmFsWz2Q2 ) its a historic building in singapore
2. Pulau Ubin - ( https://goo.gl/maps/QktmVF44NGB2 ) - if you love to explore n sight seeing i think is a good place
3. Ketam Mountain Bike Park - ( https://goo.gl/maps/zwqSms45geP2 ) i only been there once it its one of my best experiance 🙂 you can ride around whole park in a bike 🙂

these are my top picks not sure if you are interested in those places 🙂

also if am not mistaken chinese new year happening this weekend. maybe visiting chinatown will me a great idea too 🙂 

enjoy your time in singapore 🙂

cheers !

[carmenara]

Food in Singapore in 3 words; 

Hainanese Chicken Rice. 

Chicken will never be the same again... Oh good plates of this can be gotten at older coffee shops / hawker centres at $3-$3.50. Being such a rice bucket I always ask for extra rice and end up with an entire mountain of food.

As for things to do I have no idea - I'm in Singapore for work and it's a ceaseless cycle of wake@5am-eat-work-eat-sleep for the past decade...