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China town as the name says its inspired by Chinese culture and this street has a Buddhist temple at the beginning of the street.

Besides the temple you will find loads of street shops which sells Singapore souvenirs at a very very reasonable rate. You can combine 3-4 items and get it at mere 4-5 SGD.

From key rings ,fridge magnets ,t shirts, accessories,clothes,home decor items everything literally.this street is  mostly  crowded with tourists and locals for shopping .

Durian

A very fascinating fruit which we discovered in Chinatown.
Well this is a tropical fruit which is imported from Malaysia to Singapore and is loved by most of the citizen there.This fruit looks like jack fruit and so we tried it,

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How does durian tastes

Well to be frank the very first bite of this fruit was different never tasted something like this, then later on we liked it, it smells pungent  and be identified from far away.

Due to its overpowering smell, durian has been banned , In Singapore, the fruit is banned across all types of public transportation and even taxis have signs to let you know they refuse to carry passengers transporting the smelly fruit.You have to pay a heavy fine for this offence.

So if you are adventurous enough to taste different fruits the you should give it a try

We boarded from clementi MRT and got down at Tanjong pagar and walked our way to Chinatown. We got to see some really beautiful buildings being the contemporary architecture structures.We were really amazed by the beautiful modern structures.on the contrary we noticed a whole street and yes two storied shop houses which are apparently pre historic conserved areas of Singapore.

Things you find in Tras street

So if you have not visited this street till now, you must and explore the unseen beautiful Singapore

We started from Bangalore India at 21:15 IST ( India Standard Time)  indigo flight to reach Singapore at 3:30 am SST ( Singapore Standard Time) with the travel time of 4 hours. Because this was our first time travel to Singapore at night out sleep timings went on a toss. Nevertheless our journey to the magical city was just about to begin so we were damn excited.

We took some rest because we were very tired and we had to adjust with timing of Singapore which is 2.5 hrs ahead IST and 8 hours ahead of GMT ( Greenwich Mean Time). We cant call it jet lag  but we were damn tired because of the journey.

So there is an interesting activity which you can do when you are heading towards the immigration , there is this area where there are crayons on the desk and embossed stencil and some papers to draw on. Well we loved doing this activity.
TRY IT its fun