I never finished my Singapore posts and it has *again* been a long time since the last one! These are what I have been wanting to share most from my trip, favourite addresses!! Although it was a super quick trip we managed to visit some really lovely shops and had amazing food, so here they are! (I was going to include all of them together in one post but later decided to do one for shops and another for food.)
The Little Drom Store (pictured above)
As I wrote in the earlier posts (ages ago), visiting our friend
Polkaros' pop-up shop was the main purpose of our trip and it was at
The Little Drom Store. Since I met the two cute owners of this really charming store Antoinette and Stan when they visited my shop earlier when they were in Tokyo, I had wanted to visit their store so it was perfect! Going together with Ros was very special too :)
They had moved from Ann Siang Hill to this current location which is inside SOTA, School of the arts and it's really really nice! The store is full of unique and lovely products from stationery, homewares, jewelries, books and a lot more. They are very clever with their displays and we admired their original store fixtures! Polkaros display (seen in the second picture above) was very cute too, I could not resist some pompoms!!
After we had some good exciting moments at the Little Drom Store we all had nice cakes and tea at the next door
K-Ki, the sweetest Antoinette gave us a long list of must-try local delicacies and she even took us to the
Supermama - a great design store which was also in my list of want-to-go places. It was quite close from The Little Drom Store but it surely was not easy to take anyone around in the pouring rain but she so kindly did!!
We also visited the
Red Dot Design Museum (again thanks to the tip from Antoinette!), where we enjoyed exploring around. The building was very interesting and it houses many little shops and offices of creative companies.
Haji Lane was fun to explore, it's lined with so many beautiful looking stores for both clothing and homewares, even spotted Tokyobike!
I really loved the
Tiong Bahru district, one of the places I really wanted to visit in this area was
Books Actually. It's a really great book store that is way more than just a book store, a kind of store that I wish were in my own neighbourhood. There are some more lovely independent stores around this area,
Bloesem was one of them although we didn't get to go in as it was closed when we got there.
Forty Hands Coffee was also in my list but it was also closing for the day. It turned out that he wonderful design team
Foreign Policy Design has an office right across Books Actually, so hopefully next time we can visit them - great people & amazing work!
Maybe it's a little too touristy, but
Raffle's Hotel is well worth a visit to check out the wonderful architecture and to have a glass of famous Singapore Sling at the Long Bar!
There are so many hotels in Singapore from budget to luxury, but we picked this boutique hotel called
Lloyd's Inn and I'm glad we stayed here. It's located near Orchard Road so is very convenient but it's in a lovely and quiet residential area with big open space with lots of greens around the building. The best thing staying here was to wake up to the birds singing looking at the lush green view from our room in the morning! Check out their website, those beautiful photographs made me want to stay here but later it turned out that they were photographed by the very talented friend and a photographer
Rebecca Toh!
Food places to follow in the next post! (promise!)
