{"id":473,"date":"2025-05-24T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2025-05-24T11:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.battina.de\/?p=473"},"modified":"2026-04-15T14:47:23","modified_gmt":"2026-04-15T13:47:23","slug":"little-india","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.battina.de\/en\/southeast-asia-2025\/little-india\/","title":{"rendered":"Little India"},"content":{"rendered":"

Today I'm mainly exploring Little India. The market is very impressive with all its colors and smells. But unexpectedly, there's also quite a bit of street art to admire. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Then we visit a large temple complex. Apparently, for every kind of wish one could have, there's a corresponding deity to worship. Our guide gives us something like incense sticks, which we light as a blessing and place in a designated spot. There are already so many there that thick, foul-smelling clouds of smoke rise up.
I am fascinated by how colorful it all is.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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And here are a few more street art impressions. At the end of the day, we try some durian, and this time I can't manage it because at that moment it looks like raw chicken to me, and with that image in my head, I just couldn't eat it, even though I had eaten durian without any problems before.
Then we get a few typical desserts, one of them also with durian, and that's okay. It won't be my favorite, though. I also found it interesting that they have a legal limit on the sugar content of drinks there, and the cola doesn't taste that different from here, but it only has half the calories \u2013 without any added sweeteners. Why can't we have that here, too?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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A dessert with durian\u2026 takes some getting used to.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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A dessert with mango and rice<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Legally mandated sugar limit \u2013 it's possible<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Heute sehe ich mir vorwiegend Little India an. Der Markt ist sehr beeindruckend mit all seinen Farben und Ger\u00fcchen. Aber unerwarteterweise gibt es dort auch einiges an Street Art zu bestaunen. Dann sehen wir uns eine gro\u00dfe Tempelanlage an. F\u00fcr jede Art Wunsch die man haben k\u00f6nnte gibt es offenbar die passende Gottheit, die man […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-473","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-singapore","category-southeast-asia-2025"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.battina.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/473","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.battina.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.battina.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.battina.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.battina.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=473"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blog.battina.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/473\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":503,"href":"https:\/\/blog.battina.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/473\/revisions\/503"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.battina.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=473"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.battina.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=473"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.battina.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=473"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}