The Singapore flag.
Singapore is Singapore. A cosmopolitan corner of Asia, lots of Chinese people, like China, Hong Kong and Taiwan, but the food and language are distinctly different. You might hear Singlish from a taxi drivver, the person serving in a shop, local chatting in what sound like English, until a local word dropped into the conversation. Just as British English has adopted words from around the world and from immigrants, Singapore uses words from Malay and Mandarin and Chinese dialects such as Hokkien.
An ad on the MRT in Singapore. To chope means to reserve a table.
What they mean is, when you are in a hawker centre (food court) and have no small pack of tissues to put on the table to reserve a place whilst you queue up for food, you have an alternative. Instead stay home and order food from GrabFood.
Singapore Airlines:
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Angela Lansbury, travel writer and photographer, author and speaker. I have other posts on the Sheraton Hotel, the Botanical Gardens and more. Please share links to your favourite posts.
See my other posts on Singlish and Singapore food.
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