Just Looking Around Singapore

The City portion of the Country of Singapore (I keep reminding myself to think of Singapore as a country, because it's so small) has  many various neighborhoods and ethnicity. Actually Singaporeans pride themselves on how segregated the various races are.  They claim it keeps them as one.  Seems to work.  Today I found myself in Chinatown.  Last night I had dinner in Little India.  Yesterday I was at the Malakan food market.  Everything is so close and everyone is so mobile because of the size of the city and the public transportation, that it just seems to all make sense.

I'm located in a mid-point between several areas, so it's not a particularly glamorous part of town.  But it has a lot of energy because there is a Kaplan University and Singapore School for the Arts right here, meaning my "hood' abounds with youthful energy.  Here's what it looks like just outside of my hotel and around the first couple of blocks.

I'll do something on food later, but I will note that although there are over a zillion places to eat around here, I wouldn't exactly call it Paris.  Lots of Thai, Korean BBQ, McDonalds, KFC, Indian and bakeries with pastries stuffed with meats or chickens...I think.  And you can get spaghetti at the drop of a coin. But in terms of lovely and quaintly adorned small restaurants, that's not really the case here.
Every interior public space,like office buildings, condo's, malls, are crammed with little places to eat or buy fruit drinks and coffee. The nicer malls have nicer places with lines (ques) waiting for a table, so there is no lack of finding "food court" type environments everywhere.  Spots right off the sidewalk are abundant.