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Mall Makan: Food in Singapore Shopping Centers

  • Heidee
  • March 8, 2010
The Fountain of Wealth at Suntec City, Singapore.
Beautiful Singapore

Singapore is famous for its shopping centers and sales. Tourists come in droves to snap up branded clothes, electronics and other stuff especially during the annual Great Singapore Sale. But after miles of walking and heavy lifting brought about by this “exercise,”it is but normal – expected, even – for shoppers to feel the need to replenish their energy stores. This is when restaurants and food courts come to the rescue.

First, a little background on Singapore. It is a country, really, and not a city, promise! Despite its size, it is populated with diverse cultures because everyone likes to migrate there for its promise of security, higher pay, and everything that a first world country can offer. Their four major races are Chinese, Malay, Indian and European. With this premise, you can just imagine what their food courts look like.

There are numerous stalls offering assorted kinds of cuisine to cater to the diverse tastes of the different races. It offers choices for people who love their own cuisine and would prefer to stick to it or for those who get bored with eating the same thing every day and would like to experiment. You fancy Indian curry on Monday, Hainanese chicken rice on Tuesday, Indonesian Nasi Lemak on Wednesday? Not a problem! Some food courts also offer Malay, Thai, Korean, Filipino and Western food. All malls have at least one food court, so going hungry or finding nothing that suits you shouldn’t be a problem, unless you’ve spent all your money on sales items or on restaurant coupons, which is an entirely different issue that shouldn’t be tackled in this article.

Singapore's Food StallsOne of the popular mall food courts is Makansutra Gluttons Bay, though technically it’s not located inside but on the outskirts of the Esplanade Mall. No the name is not that movie you are thinking about right now. “Makan”is Malay for “food”or  “to eat”while “sutra”means guide or lessons. The brand is founded by a food anthrolpologist and photojournalist who has been acknowledged by the New York Times as the “food guide maven”.  Makansutra’s stalls offers all sorts of food. A must try is the famous local exotic cuisine called barbeque stingray – grilled, smothered in sambal sauce and served on a bed of banana leaves. It’s the perfect vengeance for Steve Irwin. Just in case you didn’t know, he is Australian TV’s “crocodile hunter”who was pierced to death by a stingray while he was being filmed snorkeling for a show. Makansutra is an excellent place for foreigners to visit because aside from its wide array of Singaporean food that they can try, it also has a good location ” a short walking distance from the Merlion, the icon of Singapore. No one will believe you’ve been to Singapore unless you have a picture with this water-spouting statue as the ultimate proof. On your way there, you should also take a shot with the beautiful backdrop of the Esplanade and the Singapore Flyer which you will be passing. Then you might want to visit Sentosa Island too.. oops, this is not supposed to be the topic of this article. Okay. Moving on. Eating on a library themed food court

Certain food centers not only delight the taste buds but the eyesight as well. Suntec City Mall’s Food Republic, for example, is decorated to look like an old fashioned library with stocked bookshelves painted on its walls, antique-looking candelabras as table centrepieces and chandeliers dangling from the ceiling. Eating there makes you feel as though you’re dining on fine cuisine instead of the three-dollar meal that you bought from one of the stalls. That, or it will make you want to brandish one of your chopsticks like a wand and yell “Avada Kedavra!”at passing people. Just make sure you don’t actually kill someone because Singapore is also known for being strict law-enforcers.

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