Singapore eating places
Singapore is a food paradise and eating is a culture of Singaporean. Singapore eating places sell almost every cuisine type from Indian, Chinese, Malay, Peranakans, Arabs, Dutch, French, Italian – you name it you got it. Same as the wide selection of cuisine, there are also a wide range of Singapore eating places for you to choose, from it prices to ambiance and atmosphere. This article will show you the different type of Singapore eating places that you can choose when you are in Singapore.
Coffee Shops
Coffee Shops is one of the common eating places that can be find in most of the housing estate outside the city of Singapore and usually it is located at the ground floor of the housing block. Singaporean not only go to coffee shop for food and drink, it is also a socialize place to chit chat with frinds and a gathering places for neighbour at the housing block. You will be able to see some of retire people seating at the coffee shop chit chat with friends or drinking beer and watching soccer match at the television hanging on the coffee shop wall. Coffee shop is famouse for cheap black coffee come in porcelain cup and usually the stalls that sell drink is managed by the owner of the coffee shop. It opened early in morning to 11pm at night and only a few of coffee shops in Singapore operate 24 hours. .
Hawker centres
Hawker centre is an unique eating place of Singapore. It house dozens of drinks and food stalls under one roof. You will be able to get most of the local Singapore food at hawker centre and you will never run out of choice. It is a place to taste cheap and good local food and it price is comparable to coffee shops. Only hawker centre like Lau Pa Sat and Newton hawker centre that are famous to tourist are more expensive. A suggestion for tourist is to Walk one round to have know all the food that the hawker sell before decide on what to eat. There are also certain unspoken protocols that are practiced at the hawker center that you will need to know. Take a look at our article Hawker centre culture to understand them.
Food courts
Food court is also a common eating place of Singaporean when they dinning out. The different between food court as compare to coffee shop and hawker centre is food court is air conditional and usually found in shopping mall. You can also find food courts at Orchard and in the CBD area. The dishes sell at food court are expensive than coffee shop and hawker centre at housing estate. While hawker centre sell mostly local Singapore food, food court food is more cosmopolitan serving from local food, Japanese, Italian to Korean food. Food court is unlike hawker you will have to carry your own food to your table. Most of the Singapore food courts are operated by a few big food court cooperates like “Kopitiam”, “Ku Fu”, “Republic” (can only find in big shopping centre like Vivo and Orchard road). It operating hours followed the shopping mall operating hour from 9 a.m to 10p.m.
Fast food restaurants
Fast food restaurants are popular eating place for teenagers and family with children. Children like to eat at McDonald because of the happy meal that come with toy. Fast food restaurant is selling the same food as most of the countries, there are McDonald, KFC, Pizza Hut, Burger King and others. Some fast food restaurant like McDonald open for 24 hours.
Cafes
Café is a favourite eating place for youth and working class people. It usually sells western food like sandwiches, paste and pizzas. Café like Starbuck, Coffee Bean, Coffee Club has become an in place to chit chat and socialise with friends for the youth..
Restaurants
Restaurants are most expensive eating places in Singapore . There are all kind of cuisine that you can select. It ranges from Chinese, Japan, Koran, Italic etc…. Recently there are also mid price restaurants selling western food coming out like “Pastamania” which sell pasta that is expensive than western food at hawker or food court but cheaper than normal western food restaurant at the shopping centre and these restaurant is very popular for teenagers
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