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WHAT'S THE WORD ON YOUR STREET?
THE SUPERLATIVES
Your hands-down favourite
neighbourhood joints are:
Burger Shack
for the best shakes
in Singapore (the burgers aren’t bad
either);
Gastronomia
for great pastries;
and the Thai restaurant in front of our
house on Bukit Timah Road. Beyond
that, I’m embarrassed to say, we
haven’t tried many of the restaurants.
How could I have lived here so long
and not tried more of them? Probably
because there are just too
many
places
we want to try.
You won’t find better local food
than at:
The hawker centre on the corner of
Dunearn and Adam Roads.
The strangest thing you’ve ever
seen on your street is:
The man who rides up on a moped and
parks in our driveway every afternoon.
He gets out and gets into a cab. Comes
back about five-ish minutes later, gets
back on his moped and leaves.
We love a good bargain. The best
deals in your neighbourhood are:
In all the little shops above FairPrice
in Coronation Shopping Plaza. You’ll
find cheap ink for printers, cloth and
other material for sewing, discounted
toys – you can even pick up stamps and
parking vouchers. There’s also a little
grocery store right in front of our house
that sells everything.
The guiltiest pleasure in your
area is:
Starbucks.
One thing you’d never change is:
The amazing houses.
But one thing you wouldn’t mind
seeing go is:
The noise from the street.
The city gives you $5 million to
soup up your street. You use it to:
Build a nicer playground and a pool
(private, just for our family, of course!).
Why should your neighbourhood
be featured in a guidebook?
Because it’s a friendly place to live. I do
love walking up the hill and being able
to stop and pat the dogs and say hello
to everyone who walks past. It has a nice
feeling of community.