It's time to turn your ideas into a tailor-made trip to Singapore

To be honest, we’d fly to Singapore just for the food. This is a city where even the hawker stalls have Michelin stars (really!) and where you can just as easily find a vegan probiotic acai bowl or a gourmet burger as Hainanese chicken rice and fish-head curry. But food is just the beginning.  

Dig beyond Singapore’s towering skyscrapers, luxurious colonial buildings and modern hipster scene and you’ll find a mish-mash of cultural influences bubbling away like a steaming pot of laksa. There’s Little India, festooned with flower garlands and incense. There’s Malay-Muslim Kampong Glam, where old men sip butter coffee beneath golden-domed mosques. Then there’s Chinatown, where cobblers still fix shoes in the square and pastry shops sell moon cakes made to an age-old recipe.  

That said, make no mistake: Singapore is not the place to come for “traditional Asia”. It’s the place to come for non-stop events (from F1 to music festivals), for nights out drinking in trendy cocktail bars, for skyscrapers topped with infinity pools, and for incredible gardens that turn into twinkling wonderlands after dark. Singapore is Asia flying headlong into the future, and as far as we’re concerned, it’s marvelous.