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Your guide to where to stay, eat and the must-see highlights. A heady blend of Chinese, Malay, Indian and Western culture, clean as a whistle and easy to navigate, Singapore is a dream city for foodies.

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20 things that will surprise first-time visitors

20 things that will surprise first-time visitors

Scratch the surface of the Lion City and you have plate-scrapingly-good meals for next to nothing, rich and varied history and pockets of lush jungle.

    The best places to stay

    The best places to stay

    Singapore is full of high-rise business hotels but there are also tropical resorts, budget busters and boutique options.

      The must-do highlights in three days

      The must-do highlights in three days

      A foodie destination with huge events and incredible beauty, Singapore packs a lot into a small space, which means you can too.

        Mermaids at Haw Par Villa.

        Six underrated highlights most visitors miss

        From a building that wouldn’t be out of place in Batman’s fictional Gotham City to a retro museum depicting gruesome hellscapes, you’re in for a surprise.

          Where to eat and drink

          Where to eat and drink

          While the city’s modern-day appeal owes plenty to its rich immigrant past, no where is this more evident than in its cuisine.

            Singapore is trying to attract highly skilled foreign workers to work in the city.

            What to do on a Singapore stopover with kids

            Until our family experienced our first stopover in Singapore, I didn’t realise I’d been doing long-haul flights all wrong.

              The best times to visit

              The best times to visit

              Singaporeans have been known to describe the seasons as: hot, hotter and hottest, but you could also go with wet, wetter and wettest.

                Singaporean chain Toast Box specialises in that most glorious of sweet and savoury dishes, kaya toast.

                Where to eat during a stopover

                The Lion City is like a sprawling outdoor buffet. Here’s how to turn your stopover into an eat-over.

                  Tips for eating at hawker centres

                  Tips for eating at hawker centres

                  The cooking is budget but the quality decent; some hawker stalls are even Michelin-star rated.

                    Matt Moran: Singapore on the menu.

                    Chef Matt Moran names his top places to eat

                    Few places on Earth deliver a better dining experience than Singapore. Acclaimed chef Matt Moran dishes up on where to go and what to order.

                      How to do breakfast, Singaporean style

                      How to do breakfast, Singaporean style

                      It's coffee and toast, but not as you know it. Breakfast in Singapore is full of quirks that you just need to go with.

                        Singapore’s Gardens by the Bay.

                        The seven highlights of Gardens by the Bay

                        This expansive nature park in central Singapore might be famous for its eye-catching Supertrees, but you’ll find much more to see and do.

                          Considered to be the world's first "hotel in a garden", is the 16-storey vegetation enveloped Parkroyal Collection Pickering hotel.

                          Singapore's greenscraper hotels: The best green stays in Asia's greenest city

                          Singapore is fast becoming the home of the vertical garden stay.

                            Singapore is home to three of the world’s most impressive hotel atriums

                            These dizzying architectural masterpieces have their origins with a style that sprung into being in America during the 1960s and ’70s.

                              Locals practice tai chi at Singapore’s Changi Airport.

                              How Singapore found the secrets to a longer life

                              With an average life expectancy of nearly 84, the residents of this city-state can teach us a thing or two about longevity.

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