Shop till you drop!
Singapore is a Shoppers Paradise and fights hard to maintain its place as a hot spot for bargain hunters.
Other than the mid-year ‘Great Singapore Sale', which runs for some six weeks, there are ongoing Sales in many of the major shopping centers.
Large department stores often have excellent promotions, as do Electrical and IT specialist stores in Sim Lim Square. The popular offered discount is 70% ...which is a good starting point.
Singapore offers many unusual and appealing items for those seeking something ‘special'.
Fine Chinese rosewood furniture is available from many specialist shops. Check out the upper floors in Shaw Centre after which you can ship home that antique Opium Bed you found in a dusty corner - well worth it.
Some of the best finds are Chinese medicinal products (non-melamine tainted), all guaranteed to improve any ailment known under the sun - or under the Great Wall.
Head for Chinatown or around the Bugis area and seek out the many Chinese Medicine shops. The overall array of offerings makes for some great gifts --- it's not everyone who can claim to have received Pterodactyl Toenail cream as the cure for their lumbago!
Hop into The Bencoolen shopping centre (near the Kuan Im Temple) in Bugis and check out the likes of Birds Nest Soup ingredients, Ginseng - some around S$800 a packet - but it's good!
You can even have a ten-minute ‘reading' by Geomancy Astrologers to ensure you know which way your bed should point and exactly how many goldfish you should have at home.
For the gentlemen Tongkat Ali is the Malaysian herb equivalent to Viagra - and doesn't come in blue. Guaranteed to ‘put lead in your pencil' this has to be one of the best buys around.
Check them all out soon!