Favourite Haunts

Fatty’s
175 Bencoolen Street
#01-31 Burlington Square
Tel 338-1087
Favourite of Singaporeans & ex-pats alike

Bar 2 Bar
46 Neil Road
Tanjong Pagar
Owned by our good friend Muruga

Loyang Valley, our best balcony ever where you could sip a cold G’n’T whilst watching long-tailed parakeets swooping across the sunset

Everyone has a Singapore Sling at the Long Bar; try Sunday brunch in the Billiard Room where, in 1902, Mr. M. C. Phillips missed a shot when a tiger roared from under the billiard table, reputedly the last tiger to be seen in Singapore

Those waiting to eat are a big crowd.
Traditional Chinese proverb

Which just about sums up Singapore - living there for more than two years allowed us to appreciate that Singapore is definitely the capital of Asia when it comes to food!

There are a huge number of restaurants with an almost unlimited variety of cuisine, including Singapore’s own

nonya style, which is the food of the Straits Chinese. One of our favourites is called Fatty’s, which used to be run by a gent called...Fatty, who passed away in 1999. The restaurant is now run by his brothers, one of whom is known as...Skinny. The fact that it is full of Singaporeans in the early evening and ex-pats later on is a good indication that the food is both top notch and authentic. My favourite dishes here are baby kailan in oyster sauce, Indonesian style prawns (very spicy) and deep fried baby octopus.
Holland Village is a good mix of bars and restaurants, with an especially good Thai restaurant, and is mainly frequented by Singaporeans and

expats. Bernie’s Bar on East Coast Road serves what are probably the best frozen margaritas in Asia. Great places for seafood include Newton Circus Hawker Centre, open real late, and East Coast Seafood Centre where you can eat drunken prawns and chilli crab with the bobbing lights of the ships moored out in the roads.