Food Courts

When it comes to eating here, arguably the quintessential Singaporean dining experience is the hawker center.  There are many of these hawker centers spread throughout the city and each of them is more or less like a giant food court with many independent stalls.  The key thing about hawker centers is that they're dirt cheap and amazingly delicious at the same time.  Oh and it's cash only so make sure you have enough of that (but honestly a few bucks is more than enough.  It took me a week and a half to find out I live 2 blocks from one, but better late than never!  This particular hawker center (Tiong Bahru Market) takes up the entire 2nd floor of the shopping complex and has 80+ stalls that sell different things:

Many of the individual dishes here are about $2.50 USD meaning if you usually spend about $10 in the US for lunch, you can get 4 different good sized meals here!  I had a local specialty called Char Kway Teow which is a soy sauce noodle based dish.  Very flavorful with sweet chinese sausage, eggs, soft fishcake, and clams:

Along with the large sugarcane juice with lemon, the total damage was $3.85USD.  You can bet I'll be a frequent visitor here!