FOOD REPUBLIC IN SUNTEC CITY

We were in town on Sunday recently. I've not gone downtown for a while, because I really do not like the crowds. Orchard is good if you want to walk and do some serious shopping but as usual, the crowd just gets bigger! Although there are already plenty of malls in every heartlands in Singapore, Orchard is still a hot favourite to a lot, especially the younger ones, and tourists here on holiday shopping. In recent years, one can walk-shop from one to another mall using the underground linkway. Of course it helps that you can just hop on the mrt to get to the destination linked to the malls without getting wet during rainy season.

To avoid the Orchard crowd, we head straight to Suntec since parking is a 'little' better. Compared to Orchard, you don't need to run back to the first mall where you'd park the car because Suntec is a complex of 5 towers shaped like a palm of a hand, with an enormous waterfall smack right in the centre. And, what i do like about it is that I get to do my ritual of walking round the 'fengshui' water feature, for luck.


WORD HAS IT THAT ON 8PM EACH EVENING, WALK CLOCKWISE 3 ROUNDS AROUND THE CENTRE FOUNTAIN WITH YOUR HANDS STRETCHED OUT TOUCHING THE WATER FOR GOOD LUCK...


How true it is, I don't know but I've been doing this since 1999 when I do go to Suntec...hahaha If not for luck, it certainly does make me seemed a little happier...

It was our usual Suntec shopping, where we'd head first for Carrefour since we do have some general things to get for home. I'd actaully wanted to also check out the convention halls but i'm usually so tired after being in Carrefour so I don't really venture around the mall much.

Most of the things are pretty much the same, except for some new shops and of course the newly opened food court, Food Republic. Food Republic is well known in Singapore for its extravagant interior setting, and ambience in a new age food court. The first Food Republic in Wisma Atria was such a huge success that they started another one in Vivocity. Vivocity's theme was like the old days when Singapore was full of migrants. They used a lot of props to create the wonderful setting. They must have spent a huge amount of startup for that. The cutlery used for all the Food Republic food courts are certainly unlike the others. They settled for the ceramic or glass wares. Gosh, the damages to these must be high! No melamine wares at all and certainly no paper cups etc.


DINNER IN PROGRESS
THE NEWLY OPENED FOOD REPUBLIC IN SUNTEC IS CERTAINLY ONE OF A KIND....THE INTERIOR CONCEPT FOR THIS NEW FOOD COURT IS ONE OF AN OLD ANTIQUE LIBRARY. MOCKUP THICKCOVER BOOKS DON THE WALLS THAT GO UP TO CEILING HIGH.. OLD STYLE LAMP POSTS COMPLEMENT THE DECOR ALONG WITH WENGE OR EARTHLY DARKWOOD COLOURED FURNISHING. It was quite stunning and unique, to be having your dinner in the library. Quite a few tourists were also taking pictures, since it was located just where the Duck tour vehicle were waiting outside the glass doors.



THE SINGAPORE DUCK TOUR BUS
The Duck tour is a ship-motor vehicle that runs both on land and water. Just like a duck. Starting and ending at the Suntec City, it brings you on a little tour around the nearby town and nearby marina and then goes into the water before it comes back up on land. It can get bumpy when it is going down the little steps going into the water...hahaha.. But it can be fun.