Tag: hawker centre
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Eating houses in Singapore | Our public living room
14 August, 2015 One of the most beautiful traits of the coffee houses (or eating houses) in Singapore is that anyone can come in and feel at ease over a hot meal or drink. There is no gender divide: women are just as welcome as men. There is little class consciousness: in fact, strangers across social…
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![15 minutes in a hawker centre in Singapore [Part II]](https://shopkeeperstories.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/06/31.jpg?w=1024)
15 minutes in a hawker centre in Singapore [Part II]
Urban Runway The hawker centre in Singapore is noisy and spontaneous and the centre of gravity for much of our routine social action. In this post, I’d like to present 10 scenes of activity in exactly the same place. Far from the glitz and glamour of Marina Bay Sands, this is the ordinary picture of life that most of…
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![15 minutes in a hawker centre in Singapore [Part I]](https://shopkeeperstories.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/06/15.jpg?w=1024)
15 minutes in a hawker centre in Singapore [Part I]
Urban Runway While drinking a mug of sugarcane juice, I took out my camera to document the people walking by in the exact same spot. This set of photos captures the mix of the crowd from “suits” to “slippers” to “stylish seniors” on bikes. Welcome to the tropics of Singapore! You can see Part II of the…
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