Have you had a walk around Bugis Street Market?
It may not be a great place to head if you know what you want and are in a hurry, but if you are looking for some aimless interesting walking and shopping, maybe some bargaining or snacking, it’s a good place to be.
You can buy everything from purses to iPhone covers to $1 fruit juices. Do you realize how much fruit has to go into a juicer to make a glass of juice? I recently acquired a juicer and I promise you that a knob of ginger, an apple and three carrots only makes about a third of a glass.
It reminded me of a very small and Asian version of London’s Camden Market with a mix of cheap items, food stalls and slow moving people. There even seemed to be some astrology reading sessions going on just outside the tent. The writing on the tent was in Mandarin, so maybe I will never know.
Unless I have a volunteer to come along and interpret for me.
Bugis Street Market
Fruit Stall at Bugis Market
I’m obsessed with carrot, apple and ginger “smoothies”!!! You and I both know they’re not REALLY smoothies though ;).
I love the Bugis Village area where the market is! It’s a nice surprise it’s still the way it is because Singapore changes and develops very quickly, and even buildings that are gazetted as heritage monuments may still be changed drastically. For example when the cinema complex Cathay Building was last overhauled about 10 years ago to include a mall, only the lower part of the front facade was saved.
The last time I was in the Bugis Street area, I was first visiting the I.T. mall Sim Lim Square at Bencoolen Street. From there, I crossed the road over to Albert Street as it’s nice to take the brief stroll through the Waterloo Street area where there is a bit of a market atmosphere too. Then on through the Bugis Street market, finishing the walk at Bugis Junction mall and it’s air-conditioned comfort haha… and for the Bugis MRT station which has an entrance from there.