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Feb
2011

Singapore’s incredible, edible opportunities

Spending 24 hours in transit for your next meal isn’t for everyone. All the more so when the equatorial destination is hot and sticky year-round with seasonal variations limited to steady monsoonal rains or blazing sun with intervals of pummeling showers. Welcome to Singapore, the ought-a-be culinary capital of Southeast Asia….. FULL ARTICLE

February 6, Michael C. Zusman, www.oregonlive.com

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Feb
2011

Singapore’s hawker centres: masters of the stir-fry

It was 11 o’clock on a typically muggy morning in Singapore and I was wondering if it was too early to order a plate of chicken rice at the Lau Pa Sat hawker centre. I had finished an all-you-can-eat breakfast at my hotel just a couple of hours earlier, so my stomach wasn’t rumbling, but I had mouth-watering memories of previous visits to Singapore’s masters of the stir-fry….. FULL ARTICLE

February 7, Mark Rowe, www.telegraph.co.uk

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Nov
2010

Exploring the Singapore hawker center

I traveled to Singapore solely for the food. I have no shame in admitting this. Any Singaporean will tell you that their cuisine has more to offer than almost anywhere in the world: just as the population of Singapore is a beautiful mix of cultures and ethnicities, Singaporean cuisine is an exciting mix of many cultures including Malay, Chinese, Indian, and Indonesian. With such a unique mix of so many rich cultures, I knew that Singapore’s cuisine would be an exciting combination of flavors… so straight off the metro from the airport, we headed for one of the country´s larger hawker centers….. FULL ARTICLE

November 13, Amanda Roberts- Jones, www.examiner.com

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