Trip to Little India and tips on Shopping

As any Indian looking forward to coming to Singapore would know, we have a small region on this island that looks like India (Tamilnadu to be more precise.) We (7 Gillman Residents) had a great time at Little India on Satureday (12 Aug, 2006). If you get bored from normal calm of Singapore’s other regions, visit Little India and treat your senses to motley collection of sights, sounds, saliva-inducers and shops. Little India is a good place for shopping – especially if you are looking forward to Indian food, Indian spices and exchanging money. The right place to shop for all things Indian and exchange money is Mustafa Centre (close to Farrer Park MRT). There are few stores around Gillman Heights (home to new single graduate students of NUS). Mustafa is not the right place to buy furniture or utensils, especially if you are looking for reasonably priced ones that international students usually want. The right place for that is IKEA store. You should visit Fairprice and Cold Storage if you want to buy veggies and groceries. Take help of someone around to spot these stores.

There are plenty of places of worship in Little India, so they can be of help when you feel homesick. Here are some of the pics that I had taken during the trip.