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When you visit Singapore don’t missed to shop at these places. Almost everything that you can imagine to take back home as souveniers can be found at these popular tourist shopping bazzars. Good bargains and cheap items to hoard for your collections.

Bugis Street
Bugis Street in Singapore is situated above Bugis MRT Station and features Singapore’s first glass-covered, air-conditioned shopping experience. The surrounding areas of Bugis Junction have a vintage ambience which creates nostalgia.

Bugis Street is a place where people shop, dine and entertain to enjoy the divine shopping experience. Bugis Street is every shopper’s paradise as it gives a memorable and refreshing shopping experience worth every visit.

From antic Persian rugs, rattan cane furniture, vintage clothing and antiques or belly dance costumes, yet modern boutiques and ice cream parlours - the beutiful scenes that you’ll when you walk down the road.

Arab Street

Arab Street is the centre of the Muslim community. Many of the shops here reflect the Muslim influence, selling prayer rugs, skull caps and all other necessaries for Muslim worship. You’ll also find traditional batiks from Indonesia and Malaysia. The real glory of Arab Street is the textiles. You can find many exquisitely hand-made by the wax-resist dye method and typically sold in sarong lengths. achine-printed batik with traditional designs is also available by the metre or in ready-made shorts, sundresses, ties, table linen and more.

There are also bales of gorgeous chiffon, silk, cotton georgette and other luxurious fabrics crowd the pavements, in rainbow hues and intensities. Besides fabrics and clothings, the street and the nearby areas also serve a wide range of cuisine and delicacies, from Arab, Turkish, Persian, Mediterranean, Indian and of course traditional Malay cuisine.

Chinatown
Chinatown is the the cultural hub of the Chinese migrants. Chinatown can be divided into four main districts - Kreta Ayer, Telok Ayer, Tanjong Pagar and Bukit Pasoh - each with its own distinctive flavour.

The sights and sounds of Chinatown are like other Chinatowns where you’ll find medical halls with mix snake skin, herbs and spices and other exotic ingredients into potions for all ailments, lots of traditional delicacies like sea cucumbers lie drying in the street, fruit sellers squatting near mounts of rambutans, pungent durians smells, mangosteens and other seasonal fruits.

You can bargains around from beautifully-embroidered kimonos, gold jewellery and T-shirts to pottery and traditional crafts at delightfully hard-to-believe prices.

You can also try to have your future luck read to you by the fortune-tellers who will peer intently at open palms over make-shift tables. Then try the thin slices of pork from barbeque hawker stalls. The food centre is really good and serves varieties of food. Try the claypot food varieties and you cant exactly rem which one is the most deicious because all of them are delicious and good.

Little India
First, you will be greeted by the strong, heady scent of spices and jasmine garlands, followed by the treasure trove of silverware, brassware, ethnic jewellery and colourful silk sarees, dazzling to behold. Traditionally the home of Singapore’s Indian community.

Little India is a great place to look for bargains. Just Walk down Serangoon Rd and the little laneways and go in and out of all the little shops. As you walk along you will be greeted by the beautiful smells of incense and the music of India. Meet the locals, expect to bargain and you will have great fun.

You’ll find almost everything here, from costume jewellery to women’s and men’s wear, beautiful saree shops. They don’t just have to be used as dresses. Hunt through the hanging rails to find beautiful embroidered, sequined women’s tops or skirts, men’s T-shirts and shorts. There are shops devoted to costume jewellery with beautiful bracelets and necklaces. You can even find Bollywood movie or CD and surely you’ll find your favourite movies here. It’s really cheap and you can get 2-3 sets of movies for on less than S$20.

When you stroll around Little India you’ll quickly feel hunggy because of the delicious semll of food is everywhere. There is a wide choice of food with some nice Indian restaurants, cafes and takeaways. Some have authentic Indian food but some Hawker stalls are a bit rough and ready. The food is cheap and good and don’t forget to try the banana leaf lunch set. Don’t get upset if you see people around you don’t use any spoon and fork when they are eating - yes, they just use their fingers to eat.