Things to Do Where to Shop Shopping in Little India | Shopping in Little India |
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Traditionally the home of Singapore's Indian community, Serangoon Road and its neighbouring side streets are still today a bustling hive of sights, sounds and intriguing aromas. A rainbow of colours greets you as you wind your way through the streets. Here, where the locals shop, you can buy almost anything that's Indian, from handicrafts and Kashmir silk to peacock feathers and flower garlands. Glittering silk-threaded saris, brassware and Indian-designed jewellery are particularly good buys. Advertisements Check out the spice mill along Serangoon Road for ready-made packets of spices for fish, meat or vegetable curries that can be easily packed into a suitcase. You'll be charmed by jewellers selling silver amulets, bridal ornaments as well as cheap, colourful bangles, ankle chains and other adornments. Look, too, for luggage of every description, Indian bedspreads and giant photographs of Indian movie stars. Chellas Gallery specialises in papier-mache boxes and other collectibles from Kashmir. No visit to Little India would be complete without seeing two of the area's institutions -- the Tekka Centre and Mustafa Centre. The Tekka Centre on Buffalo Road, known as KK Market to the locals, is a bustling wet market full of fresh vegetables, fish, meat, spices and flowers. For small souvenir items, check out the brassware shops or one of the other small shops. At the other end of Serangoon Road in Serangoon Plaza is Mustafa Centre, an emporium-cum-department-store-cum Aladdin's cave. Don't be deceived by the relatively modest exterior - inside you'll find floor after floor selling every conceivable item at some of the lowest fixed prices in Singapore. Sim Lim Square Bookmark it ...        |
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