Note: Much of what I’ll be doing in this post is share some trivia on Singapore food and culture. Why do I do know all these information? Well, I spent almost three (3) years there as a foreign worker. That experience has given me enough credibility on the subject, especially on the food.  Read on… 

Ok, the title may be confusing, but read on: There’s a Singapore Food Festival in Orchard Road, SM Mega Mall.

To remove some of the confusion, the original Orchard Road is in Singapore. The Road is a kilometer strip of shopping malls and is filled with shoppers, both foreign and locals. The Orchard Road I’m writing about is a restaurant on the second floor of SM Mega Mall, Mandaluyong City, Philippines. The owners of that restaurant built it to serve hawker-centre-type food. Again, for those that don’t know what a hawker center is, a hawker center is, wait… I’ll just list the three most common food places in Singapore so you understand better:

• Hawker Centre – an organized area of stalls selling all types of local and western food. It is usually near a market, and is a covered structure that has no air-conditioning.
• Coffee Shop - an area usually under an HDB block (the government built housing building similar to the BLISS projects here in the Philippines but definitely better and more expensive) that offers the same food in hawker centers. It’s composed of several stalls that, again, sell local and western food.
• Food Court - an area for dining in malls, or commercial or business buildings that is usually air-conditioned. The food served here is almost the same as in the hawker centers but pricier. Continue reading »