December 16th, 2009

Our Coffee Shop

We live on the fifth floor of a 25 story building. Virtually all Singaporeans live in high rise apartment buildings, and our neighborhood is full of them.

The areas surrounding the high rises are full of all kinds of shopping. Within a hundred yards of our building is our supermarket, bakery, hair and nail places, hardware stores, Chinese medicine shops, wet market for vegetables and meats, tailors, and lots of little specialty shops.

We also have two outdoor food courts, with stalls selling Chinese, Indian, or Malay dishes. We call them “hawker centres” for big ones, or “coffee shops” for little ones like ours, with 8-16 stalls each.

We can get a decent plate of noodles or rice with meat and veggies for $2-3, and we eat pretty much all our dinners downstairs. I (Jim) also like to sit at the coffee shop on Saturday mornings and read the paper and watch the neighbors go by.

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