[Keithen]

I am trying to find stuff to do in Singapore i haven't ever been. Maybe some cool lans i can play sc2 at or just stuff i shouldn't miss out on. Any help with the above will be greatly appreciated.

[Spud]

Drink beers with Shihao.

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	TAEdgE:
	TARane:
	TADivinity:	hahahah

[Jaywalk]

go to the night zoo man, they have bearded pigs, its ridiculous.

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MooZfY:

LOL bearded pigs FTW!

[Benji]

I am told by a good friend that lives in Singapore that a pretty fun thing you guys do is you get a group of people together and talk about how much you wish you lived in Australia.

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ROOTPetraeus:

New Zealand*

[Keithen]

Originally Posted by xGKingBenji

I am told by a good friend that lives in Singapore that a pretty fun thing you guys do is you get a group of people together and talk about how much you wish you lived in Australia.

I can do that at my house why would i want to do that anyplace else

[cruxBsK]

Eat the food there (its amazing) when I went there with Mrs BsK we went to Singapore flyer, Raffles, the casino building (can't believe I dont remember the name) you can go to the Zoo as has already been suggested, go over to Sentosa island (which was ok depends what you're into it has theme park etc over there) did I mention Eat the food like hawker shop food is (the bomb)

Maybe go do some shopping there plenty of awesome places to go shopping in Singapore maybe meet up with some of the guys from the forum or something at a Lan shop (this all depends on how long you're staying)

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Bugalugs McScruffin:

BsK being a total helpful boss. :D

[nirvAnA]

For foreigners

Day 1: Sentosa (do the lugee/sky lift, visit universal studios, underwater world, etc)
Day 2: Shopping along Orchard Road in the day then visit Marina Bay Sands Casino.
Day 3: Zoo / Clubbing (Butterfactory @ onefullerton or Zouk @ kimseng road). Maybe visit esplanade eat at Makan sutra then walk to Merlion Park / Butterfactory

If you have more days the more "optional stuff" i.e frankly quite boring compared to the ones above:
Day 4 Culture / Art Stuff: Experience chinatown, Little India, Fort Silso@Sentosa or SAM(sg art museum)
Day 5 Nature stuff: View from Mount Faber(nice drive for couples), Cycling at East Coast Park + Waterpark, Henderson wave

Tourist Traps to Avoid: Singapore flyer, "beaches" (sg has one of the worse beaches in the world), night safari (the day zoo is alot better)

And thats it!

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	Sc2Clare:
	cruxBsK:	Nice! the fllyer was ok but it was expensive agree RE beaches

[Sc2Clare]

u r so right nirv...

[crAzerk]

Are you a tourist? Fooood man it's all about the foooood. Find out about the good food places and try them out!

For instance,
Roti Prata at The Prata House (Thomson Road)
Chicken Rice (@ anywhere, really. For expensive ones, try Boon Tong Kee)
Char Kway Teow / Hokkien Mee / Fried Carrot Cake (white and/or black) (@ at hawker centre)

Oh god I feel hungry now

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	|Erasmus|:	making me hungry too... and wanting to go to singapore...
	MooZfY:	PRATA DEI? :p

[Frogmite]

You can go to have a drink at my house. Everybody is always welcome.

BBQ Party + Karaoke + Attica every friday and saturday nights nearby the pool.

If you want to play SC2, we are getting lots of events recently, and for sure lots of events to come.

Originally Posted by xGKingBenji

I am told by a good friend that lives in Singapore that a pretty fun thing you guys do is you get a group of people together and talk about how much you wish you lived in Australia.

Your friend must be australian

[biogenie]

My recommendation:

A Visit to the MarinaBay Sands infinity pool is a MUST GO. If budget is no issue, this is definitely the place to be with the overarching view of the Singapore CBD in front of you as you float in a 1.2Meter pool with the view to FEEL LIKE A BOSS!!! Alternatively, you can simply pay a visit to the club at the same level for a expensive beer, called Ku De Ta.

I know I know, this might sound absolutely silly, but if you would like a view of a the Bay, I would recommend visit Marina Barrage. It is a DAM like structure that is put in place to create the bay as we call it. It has a really nice green roof where people do take their lunch and have a breather. Not many places in Singapore where you can enjoy the beautiful view of the the sea, golf course to the side, Singapore flyer to the edge, Benjamin's Shears bridge in front of you and the Marina Bay Sands as the background of your newest Facebook profile pic, not to forget the yet to open Gardens By The Bay, where it features the Flower Domes. If you are a Sydney-er you would notice the gesture of the architecture would somewhat remind you of the Opera House

Music lover? I would suggest a really good spot for Live Music and a damn good pizza at Timbre @ Subway Station. For location simply google or PM me. It is pretty easy to find. This outdoor music themed spot is where most of my buddies gather. Should weather permit it is always the best spot to be, as beer is well priced and the crowd is pretty good usually.

Food paradise is how some might "proclaim" Singapore to be. So my recommendation for you would be:

Low Budget: - Ask again cause it would be Food Genre specific.

Mid Budget: TGIF; Xiao Long Bao Paradise(Located @ ION Orchard); Steamboat Buffets

High Budget: Seafood(Good names to note: Jumbo Seafood; No Signboard; Little Redhouse); International Buffets(Todai [Beware food poisoning happened a week back but they are known to be good though]; Ritz Carlton[UGLIEST BUILDING IN SINGAPORE]

A simple guide would be to visit HungryGoWhere.com


Hmm.... Touristy stuff aside: A good spot to go to in Singapore would be Mount Faber. Don worry we lie when we called it MOUNT but it is probably the tallest spot in Singapore(natural) It has a nice view and a cool bar at the top where people take the cable car into Sentosa Island.



Orchard Road - Shopping; Eating; Gal watching; Guy watching; lawl~~


Pub Crawl - Ice Bar aka Eski Bar; Double O(Located next to a Church how weird); Loof (on top of Odeon Tower); CHIJMES (many bars in there); Zouk (Club); Zirca (Club); Boat Quay in general.

If you are a Soccer or what I call Football fan TELL ME! i can tell you where the "home" bars are. Not homies, but there are official supportor groups in Singapore who pay bars to host ONLY supports during game nights.

Lastly; LANs


COME ON!!! YOU GO TO SINGAPORE TO LAN!?!?!?!?!?:!?!?!?!

lol.... GooGLe..

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nirvAnA:

[biogenie]

BTW Singaporeans THAT IS HOW YOU SELL SINGAPORE!!!

[biogenie]

Originally Posted by nirvAnA

For foreigners

Day 1: Sentosa (do the lugee/sky lift, visit universal studios, underwater world, etc)
Day 2: Shopping along Orchard Road in the day then visit Marina Bay Sands Casino.
Day 3: Zoo / Clubbing (Butterfactory @ onefullerton or Zouk @ kimseng road). Maybe visit esplanade eat at Makan sutra then walk to Merlion Park / Butterfactory

If you have more days the more "optional stuff" i.e frankly quite boring compared to the ones above:
Day 4 Culture / Art Stuff: Experience chinatown, Little India, Fort Silso@Sentosa or SAM(sg art museum)
Day 5 Nature stuff: View from Mount Faber(nice drive for couples), Cycling at East Coast Park + Waterpark, Henderson wave

Tourist Traps to Avoid: Singapore flyer, "beaches" (sg has one of the worse beaches in the world), night safari (the day zoo is alot better)

And thats it!

Sorry Boss!!

But i beg to defer!!!

Singapore might not have the best beaches BUT WE DO! have some mentionable ones.

First: Siloso Beach. NOT during Zouk Outs, but generally speaking it is a pretty good place to chill out. It has a really expensive Beach Bar that opens at night and a nice laser show that happens around it vicinity as well. So if you need a place to listen to some nice honks of oil tankers passing by; or simply watch the teenagers of Singapore play volley ball. That is the place to be.

Second: As mentioned by a couple Universal Studios Singapore. They are actually talking about Resorts World Singapore. This is the main "resort" you are looking for when you mention Universal. In one of the hotels, Hard Rock Hotel, It has a MAN MADE beach. It is a Silcia composite, sorry I am not a engineer or the supplier who did it, but I can say it is a pretty unique experience. Where you get to hang out in a pool setting with beach all around.

Lastly; Not the proudest touch I would say. But East Coast Park for what it is worth definitely deserves a mention. I know i know it may not have the glorious white sand beaches of Whitehaven or the illustratious outlook of Bondi. But to travel means you want to know more about other countries. East Coast Park has a good pulse to the local culture. Mentioned in my earlier post about food(seafood or hawker stuff) you can find some good food in the area. And ALOT of chalets that line the beaches. Something uniquely Singapore would be how you could rent a bike and ride from the Gardens By The Bay in Marina Bay; through to East Coast Park; Across the Singapore Sailing Clubs into NSRCC(a Golfing Club); into Changi Park Connector and towards Changi VIllage. I could provide more of a detail outlook if you are a Cyclist enthusiast and you could probably see a greater part of Singapore through riding a round

Cheers.

[nirvAnA]

haha no worries its good to share your thoughts, hope to see more opinions from others too and what they think are singapores best stuff to see!

i used to think alot like you before man! I thought silso beach was really nice and i liked canoing there, playing beach soccer/volleyball, etc and i used to think to myself, yay! singapore finally had a nice beach. then i went to the goldcoast and got the shock of my life. the difference is incomparable.

sg beach = brown coarse sand, polluted waters, litter on beach
Australian beaches = white fine sand, clean waters, clean beaches.

I mean first telling thing is you hardly see people swimming in the becahes in singapore. in Australia there are heaps of pple always. the pple really take pride in taking care of their beaches and i wish the same could be said for singapore! the feeling of having you toes steeped in fine white sand is also incredible and something that must be experienced for yourself. Up there with eating "Korean grapes" which taste NOTHING like singapore grapes lol.

yea and i dont want aussies to go to sg thinking our beaches are any good cause its really terrible compared to what they are used to back home. Batam beach is terrible too and I didn't like the bali beaches either and most malaysian beaches are bad apart from the one in Redang where they filmed that Richie Ren movie. Just sharing my perspective from having visited these different beaches.

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biogenie:

ye true true ^____^ but thats why we call their beaches best in the world!

[Fate]

Wow nirvana, biogenie and BSK our singaporean tour guides, maybe you should just get along with them and ask them to show you around those awesome places

[DM.MCZ.Shondy]

Go sentosa universal studio and try out all different type of food in Singapore!
Also go orchard road~ it's rank top shopping street in the world according to a survey by French market consultancy mystery shopping

[Mezza]

Most of the guys have already listed the obviously obvious touristy shit you can do in Singapore like visit the Zoo/BirdPark/Sentosa/Marina Bay Sands and stuff so yeah, you can follow that as a rough guide.

But honestly the national preoccupation in Singapore is to eat and one of the best and coolest things you could experience that's uniquely Singaporean is to hang out with a bunch of guys, hit up a hawker centre and try the local fare.

A hawker centre is basically a place with a ton of foodstalls with a huge variety of stuff at pretty decent prices. Don't expect michelin starred cuisine, airconditioning or waiters. It's pretty no frills but you really get damn good stuff.

Check this list compiled by CNN Go.

http://www.cnngo.com/singapore/none/...without-810208

Now a friend of mine who relocated to New York City returned home after 2 years abroad and managed to sample 80% of the stuff on the list in a mere 8 days. His cholesterol also shot up a billion points, but that's besides the point.

Hitting anyone of these self respecting food centres I'm gonna list below is gonna be able to get you to sample at least a dozen of the things listed there on the CNN list.
1. Newton Hawker Centre (near a subway stop, food's slightly more expensive, but its near town and its good to people watch)
2. Chomp Chomp @ Serangoon Gardens, lots of awesome shit here
3. Maxwell Food Centre (imho more of a morning/day place, the first 2 are DEFINITELY night places), try to raw fish stall with the porridge here, its awesome. There's stuff here at night too, but nothing as stellar as 1. and 2.
4. Changi Village Food Centre, this is bloody way far out on the East of the island, a night place as well, and if you hang around into the wee hours of the morning, you get to see a different species of hookers around the southern car park. They may look like this girl here:

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But they sound like this guy here:

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Consider yourself prewarned. And oh yeah, Changi Village Food Centre is famous for its Nasi Lemak, there's a stall at the corner that usually has a long snaking cue from it its called "International Nasi Lemak" which is kinda retarded because there ain't anything "international" about nasi lemak. But its supposedly the better one among the bunch of fakes in there. The fried chicken wings are pretty good.

5. Bukit Timah Hawker Centre - kinda out of the way, but its a short hop from there to or from Holland Village, which is sorta like a watering hole that's pretty decent.

When you do make your way into these hawker centres, here's the stuff that should be easily found at any of the listed 5
1. Char Kway Teow
2. Carrot cake aka Chai Tow Kuay, its not really a cake, its more like deconstructed radish paste fried with eggs and stuff, there's a version that's "white" and there's the "black" version which has black/sweet soy sauce added. try both for good measure
3. Sambal stingray - must try
4. Fried hokkien mee
5. Rojak
6. Oyster omelette - not really your breakfast omelette at continental breakfasts, but this one is superbly greasy with bits of fried starch that's supposedly as awesome tasting as it is unhealthy
7. Katong laksa - another must try (try to katong laksa variation and not any old variation, go to Katong if you have to)
8. Bak chor mee - basically noodles (basically rice noodles, there's the type that resembles angel hair pasta aka "mee kia" and then there's the type that resembles linguine aka "mee pok") and its tossed with sambal chili, pork floss, slices of liver and lard. there's also a fishball and fishcake variation that also comes with lard and chili.
9. Wanton mee - same as above, but with wantons, the sauce base is different from what you find overseas, which is usually hongkong influenced. The singaporean version has a more liquid base
10. BBQ Chicken Wings - ever watched the show Yen Can Cook (So Can You!)? That duded endorses this shit, you should try it.
11. Satay - BBQed pork/chicken/beef/mutton served with cucumber/onions that are raw, with a spicy/peanut sauce, another iconic singaporean thing
12. The classic hawker centre drinks Sugar Cane Juice, Soya Bean, Chin Chow, Lime Juice, etc. Definite thirst quenchers and for $2-3 a pop, you can get like a towering 1.5L mug of this which is good enough to quench your thirst. Try sugar cane if you haven't before or chin chow, I'm pretty sure you could get soya bean and lime juice overseas easy.
13. Nasi lemak - best variation found where the transvestites are see hawker centre no.4 listed above
14. Popiah - sorta like the vietnamese vegetable/prawn spring rolls, but more savoury
15. Otak - spicy fish paste clapped between leaves and BBQed, good shit
16. Goreng pisang - fried bananas in batter
17. Ice kachang/chendol - local desserts that are towering contraptions built out of ice (you'll need it, we're bloody warm) with syrups and good stuff in its core. usually dessert stalls have tons of options and have huge picture menus so what you see is what you get.

This list is totally non exhaustive and you could probably find more stuff not in hawker centres, and honestly, boot up the CNN list and ask a local or cab driver where to head to for whatever your craving is.

p.s. Singaporean girl-watching is a definite no-no. You'll be appalled, and there are better things to do with your life, like watch your toenails grow. nirvAnA probably can attest to that, after all he married a Korean chick, and definitely not cos she can play Starcraft
p.p.s. JacziE isn't true blue Singaporean per se
p.p.p.s. Our beaches suck. You literally see flecks of foamy crap floating around and washing on shore. Gross.

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[Keithen]

Thanks so much to everyone for the reply's it looks like my time there will be full of good stuff