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PROPERTY
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WHAT'S THE WORD ON YOUR STREET?
THE SUPERLATIVES
Your hands-down favourite
neighbourhood joints are:
Five & Dime for breakfast; we love the
quirky atmosphere and the corned
beef hash is heavenly. We also enjoy
an alfresco iced latte and the real
neighbourhood feel at Baker & Cook.
The Dubliner is great for a Guinness
and, on Friday nights, we enjoy listening
to Lily and Roy sing some of our favourite
songs. Porterhouse on Killiney does
good steaks at half the price of the big
steakhouses in the city, and the owner,
Lawrence, is the nicest guy on the block.
eM by the River , which we like to think
was made for us since my name begins
with an E and my husband’s begins with
an M, is a great place for a late-night
cocktail on the way home from dinner
by the river. We also love walking down
the hill to Bistecca on Mohamed Sultan
for steaks. And at Shiraz Mazzeh I can
satisfy my craving for chicken shawarma
regularly. You won’t find better local food
than at Newton Food Centre. Despite
its reputation as the expensive expat
hawker centre, the food is amazing.
The strangest thing you’ve ever
seen on your street is:
The desolation over Chinese New Year.
It felt apocalyptic to see so few people
on the streets!
We love a good bargain. The best
deal in your neighbourhood is:
At Killiney Curry Puff . A delicious
potato curry puff is $1.40.
The guiltiest pleasure in your
area is:
Breakfast at Wild Honey at Mandarin
Gallery.
One thing you’d never change is:
The row of shophouses and restaurants
on Killiney Road.
But one thing you wouldn’t mind
seeing go is:
The constant construction noise from
new buildings going up all around us.
The city gives you $5 million to
soup up your street. You use it to:
Put in traffic lights or a bridge over the
road at Devonshire and Killiney. Cars
come speeding around the corner
all day long and they don’t stop for
pedestrians.
Why should your neighborhood
be featured in a guidebook?
It’s in the perfect location, right between
Orchard Road and Robertson Quay.
In one direction, great shopping and
dining. In the other, there are great
evening strolls and cocktails to be had.
Most noticeable thing about
your street:
The amount of greenery that surrounds
us. We’ve visited cities all around the
world and many of them feel like a
concrete jungle. I love that we see
lots of trees and flowers in Singapore,
including on top of the building across
from us and on the seven garden levels
of our building. And I love looking across
at the mix of old, red-roofed shophouses
and new, modern buildings.