Written in Singapore, for Singapore
Singapore travel & city guide
Amazing Singapore is a long-form editorial guide to eating, walking, riding and spending weekends on the island — written in British and Singapore English for a local audience. We write for people who already know the MRT map, and for visitors who would rather eat where the queue is local than where the coach parks.
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Lead essay
Tissue packets, tray returns and closed Mondays: the unwritten rules of eating in a Singapore hawker centre, written for people who actually live here.
Read the how to eat at a hawker centre without looking like a tourist guide
Queues, kopi orders, wet markets and the plates Singaporeans actually argue about.
Heartland walks, shophouse streets and the estates that tourists skip.
Reservoir loops, kampong islands and the green city after office hours.
MRT habits, park connectors, Changi and when a bus beats a Grab.
Rainy days, public holidays, visiting family and the civic city.
Pulau Serangoon is the scruffy coastal park at the end of Punggol Promenade, open 7am to 7pm, with casuarinas, bikes and no shops. Treat it as a heat-and-water problem, not as a beach day with a cafe.
Last-train timing, Geylang and Joo Chiat supper, prata and wanton mee, and when a 24-hour McDonald's is the honest choice rather than a failure of imagination.
Parents and in-laws who have done the cable car and the theme park do not need another ticketed island. They need one hawker lunch, one nature half-day, one neighbourhood, and a last night that does not panic about the flight.
Read the 48 hours with visiting family who have already done sentosa guide
Punggol MRT and LRT, the waterway terraces, Coney Island at the edge, and a young north-east town built for weekends on a bicycle rather than for a postcard.
Read the punggol and the waterway towns that tourists skip guide
PSI is not a vibe and 2pm is not a suggestion. Indoor sport halls, air-con libraries and a 7am start at MacRitchie will save a Saturday that humidity or smoke would otherwise cancel.
Read the haze, heat and how to plan a weekend around the weather guide
Singapore’s first new town, Margaret Drive hawker, the memory of Tanglin Halt, and a Saturday that looks like the rest of the island rather than a postcard.
Read the queenstown and the case for a heartland weekend guide