I spent a couple of days in Singapore on this trip - and had some great meals. I tried the Fullerton Sunday Champagne Brunch with some colleagues. And then ate at a superb Chinese restaurant on Clarke's Quay with some very dear friends from the Bay Area, now settled in Singapore. And I tried the food-court type dining experience at the Grand Hyatt's Straits Kitchen.
The bottomline is this. The dining experience in Singapore is unique and unmatched around the world; for which there are a few reasons. First, the breadth of price options allows a Singapore diner to go from a safe and scrumptious $4.00 meal at a Hawkers Market all the way to upscale world class restaurants (even my India based friends no longer eat at the road-side stalls there). Second, the quality and breadth of food is deep and wide. I found the South Indian food better than in Chennai, the Chinese food just as good as in Shanghai or Beijing. And the Indonesian, Malaysian food unmatched anywhere else. By the way, two cuisines that don’t make this cut are Japanese and French. Still in the broader view, the breadth of available options - type, quality and price segment is absolutely unique in Singapore.
