Today I'm doing another food tour with interspersed cultural information, though this time with a stronger focus on Indian influences. We have a very friendly guide and, once again, a nice little group of participants.
We're visiting a market where it feels like you can get just about anything, probably because Singapore is so well-connected thanks to its huge port, and immigrants from all corners of the world continue to create enough demand for... everything... The durian section is easily detectable by smell from 10 meters away.
Almost everything we are served is delicious and plentiful. Our guide deliberately orders more than we could ever eat, because the surplus food is donated to those in need right there on the spot. There are volunteers on hand to help with this. Hawker Centers, which are visited by the guides who directly accept and distribute the donations. I think that's great!
That day we also visited a few temples. We also saw the Avenue of the Dead, where people used to go to die – surrounded by shops selling coffins, grave goods, and other necessities. Since it was mostly the poor who came here to die, there was practically no medical care.
In Little India, we visit the large department store where an entire, enormous floor is dedicated to Indian clothing of every kind. There must be tens of thousands of items! Right there are also tailors on site, because the clothes are all imported in one size and altered on-site – supposedly in less than an hour…
After the food tour, I ended up in a modern mall and was amazed: there's a bike path 🚲 right through the middle of it!! 😯
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