Singapore, My New Home

Singapore is in the South-East Asia around 200 km north of the equator.  Singapore's population is  around 5.4 million people, but not all of them are born in Singapore.  Much of the population is Chinese, Malaysian, Indian or Eurasian.  Eurasian is a new mixed nationality of European and Asian.  This really small multicultural country neighbours Malaysia which gives Singapore one of its 4 languages!

Singapore is known to be a quadra-lingual country, with its other languages being English, Tamil and standard Mandarin.  Since I'm going to be here in Singapore for 5 more months I hope to pick up some words from a couple of these languages!  All of these languages also bring a culture to Singapore, as shown in the food eaten at the Hawker stalls.

     



Hawker stalls are public outdoor food courts that sell a variety of foods and drinks! Hawker food is very popular here in Singapore.
The food here is very cheap in price and it's definitely a plateful!  The average price of a rice and chicken dish would be $8.00 in Canada and it's only $2 here.

Eating at the stalls means you have to use a reusable plate.  But where do you get the plates from?  The plates are owned by the Hawker stalls and are reused once washed.  The dishes are washed in a bucket with water and  soap.

I found this very different and unike compared to food courts in Canada where food courts at home is served with disposable plates and cutlery.

    

I'm really excited for the next 4 and a half months! I'll post soon so bye for now!

~ A really cool Canadian :D