Singapore: UNESCO Street Food & Cultural Experience
Overview
This Mixed-Group tour highlights the ethnic neighborhoods of Chinatown and Little India, showcasing Singapore's unique diversity. Participants will learn about the history, culture, and heritage that shape the local experience.
- 🍜 Visit 2 UNESCO inscribed hawker centres in Chinatown and Little India.
- 🥡 Sample authentic local cuisines and drinks with historical significance.
- 🚆 Use public transportation between different ethnic quarters for an immersive experience.
- ⚠️ Some dishes may be fast diminishing due to a lack of family successors continuing the trade.
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The experience offers several options. This price includes:
Tour departs at 9am, and guests will go on a 5-hour discovery of the ethnic neighborhoods & experience local food & drink.
Duration: 5 hours
Pickup included
- Professional & accredited host with stories to share
- Beer only
- MRT (Subway) and/or public buses with guidance on how to use it
- Food tasting
- Coffee and/or Tea
- Bottled water
- Soda/Pop
- Hotel pickup and drop-off (Optional / Subjected to Location)
- Gratuities
Meeting point
Return details
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ChinatownYour tour is a fun and educational discovery of 3 ethnic neighbourhoods: Chinatown, Little India and Kampong Glam. You will learn more about its history and experience local living, through walking in the area as well as sampling local street food at UNESCO inscribed hawker centres at Chinatown and Little India, and dessert in the Malay Quarter of Kampong Glam. In Chinatown, you will learn more about the lives of early Chinese immigrants who flocked here in large numbers due to the vibrant community and work opportunities. Businessmen, traders, craftsmen, hawkers and peddlers sought to make a living here. While some found success, many others found themselves succumbed to vices like opium, gambling and prostitution. Remnants of these memories can still be found along the streets of Chinatown and you will get the opportunity to relive the lives of the past in the present day.
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Kampong GelamYour tour is a fun and educational discovery of 3 ethnic neighbourhoods: Chinatown, Little India and Kampong Glam with a street food experience at UNESCO inscribed hawker centres at Chinatown and Little India. In Kampong Glam, you will learn more about how this place came about and that Malay royalty used to govern Singapore, whose palace used to stand in the grounds. Be enthralled by the grand Sultan Mosque that still continues to attract Muslims from all over the island. It is an important focal point for religious, cultural and social activities. During the Muslim fasting month of Ramadan, this area transforms into a popular night market with numerous food stalls as Muslims gather to await the prayer call to break their fast at sunset. You will get to sample locally known desserts by an independently run store in the area while soaking in the old and colourful wall murals that adorn all along the walls of shophouses.
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Little IndiaYour tour is a fun and educational discovery of 3 ethnic neighbourhoods: Chinatown, Little India and Kampong Glam. You will learn more about its history and experience local living, through walking in the area as well as sampling local street food at UNESCO inscribed hawker centres at Chinatown and Little India, and dessert in the Malay Quarter of Kampong Glam. In Little India, you will be absorbed in the vibrancy of colour, sight and sound of flower markets, traditional clothing stores, fruit stalls, incense shops and Hindu temples that still continue to revolve around the lives of the Indian community today. You will feel like you have been transported to another place as your guide shares with you more about the history of the coloured streets, the trades and opportunities that inspired the early Indian community to move here from the original Little India located elsewhere.