This is Singapore’s mini-Thailand, full of Thai shops, grocers, butchers and eateries. The signs are in Thai, the customers are mostly Thai and the food, clustered on the ground floor, is 100% magnificent like-mother-makes Thai. The atmosphere is often boisterous and drunken and a little rough-house for some. The Isan (northeast) food is best – try the Nong Khai Food & Beer Garden on the ground floor (with the orange sign in Thai and tiny lettering in English), then once you’re fed and boozed up, head for Thai Disco 1 or 2 to complete the evening.