Market shopping in Singapore
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Chinatown Complex
Once famously rundown and grungy, Chinatown Complex was inevitably closed for upgrading at the time of writing. Hopefully, when it reopens, the singular charms of its wet market, barking stallholders and famous hawker centre will not be lost – but we have our doubts.
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Bugis Street Market
Lock up your teens. A far cry from its seedy past as Singapore’s most notorious red-light area, the Bugis St market is now a teeming three-level hive of stalls selling clothes, shoes and accessories, plus a few manicurists and nail bars, food stalls and, in a nod to the area’s past, a sex shop.
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Geylang Serai Wet Market
Trundle out to Paya Lebar MRT station, from where it’s a short walk along Sims Ave to the temporary home of Geylang Serai Wet Market. The original market across the street is getting a facelift and has already missed its 2008 reopening deadline. Expect a crowded, traditional Asian wet market with meat hanging on hooks, baskets of sloshing fish, squirming frogs, slippery eels and people haggling over the produce. Watch your step!
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Sungei Road Thieves Market
How and why the authorities allow this kerbside jumble sale to exist is a mystery, but happily it remains, spread out across four streets around a patch of open ground. The array of old geezers hawking random collections of used items makes it an interesting place to wander around, mingle with Singapore’s impoverished underbelly and perhaps throw them a few dollars for some of their wares.
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Raffles Hotel Arcade
Attached to the Raffles Hotel is the swish Raffles Hotel Arcade, which, as you’d expect, is firmly highbrow –designer clothes, galleries, gift shops and beauty salons.
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Geylang Serai Wet Market
Trundle out to Paya Lebar MRT station, from where it’s a short walk along Sims Ave to the temporary home of Geylang Serai Wet Market. The original market across the street is getting a facelift and has already missed its 2008 reopening deadline. Expect a crowded, traditional Asian wet market with meat hanging on hooks, baskets of sloshing fish, squirming frogs, slippery eels and people haggling over the produce. Watch your step!
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