Where the architecture exceeded our expectations, the culinary experience fell a little flat. Singapore is notoriously expensive and known for its wide-ranging cuisine, but the flavors didn’t keep up with the prices in many of the restaurants we tried. We did find a few gems, and surprisingly some of the best food we had was at the hawker centers, which are basically just food courts where the prices are one-fifth to one-tenth the cost of restaurants and in our experience the food tastes better. We ate at several hawker centers and really enjoyed them all!
Yes, we love to eat out at hawker centers, where you get to taste multicultural flavors. One of my Singaporean friends was honored to conduct an interview with one professor at National University of Singapore as one lecture series on the history of developing hawker centers in Singapore. If you want to watch it, I can certainly send the link to you after you come back to the U.S.
That would be great to see. All three we visited were very good!