How to eat at a club in Singapore

The Tanglin Club, Singapore.

How To Eat At A Club In Singapore
If you belong to a club, such as a country club, or an international club with links to a club, find out if you can have a meal. You will need a letter of introduction from your own club. Just email your club and they will email back atn introduction.

Tanglin Club
For example, the Tanglin Club in Singapore has links with several London clubs and others throughout the world. If you work for a big company, sometimes they give you membership of a club as part of your transfer package, or the company might arrange for group membership, or your colleague or boss in another country might have membership of a club specifically for entertaining. The Tanglin Club used to be very British, but it is increasing its local Chinese membership.

American Club
Across the road from the Tanglin club is the American Club. Large numbers of American expats in Singapore belong to this and will be happy to take you in. Other clubs for expats are the Canadian Club, the British Club, the Japanese Club, the French Club, the Dutch Club.

London Clubs
As members of the Tanglin Club, we were able to visit several clubs in London. The RAF club. A Commonwealth club.

A friend of mine belongs to a Foreign Correspondents club in Hong Kong. She can visit clubs in other countries.

You might belong to other kinds of clubs which don't have premises but which meet in hotels. For example. Toastmasters International. MeetUp will enable you to join a group or start one.

There are various ways of recprocating if a local person invites you to a meal at their club or a restaurant. You can invite them to a meal at a restaurant at your hotel or antoher restaurant. You can take a wrapped gift, as you would if going to a dinner party for a special occasion at somebody's home. At a club you cannot split the bill because the person who is a member is sent a bill at the end of the month and no money changes hands at the club. The members signs. If they are poor, or you cannot reciprocate any other way or you hardly know them, you might just offer to pay your half of the bill in cash (surreptitiously).

Author
Angela Lansbury, travel writer and phtographer, author and speaker.