you have duck tour, i have crab tour

A family friend couple is in Singapore on a free and easy trip with their relatives. So while half of the group went to take on the Central Catchment Area this morning, we met up with the other half (including the family friend couple) and did a little trip around Singapore town.

I always take pleasure in showing friends around Singapore, showing them the lifestyles of the locals, stuffs that normal packaged tours may overlook. C'mon which packaged tour will bring you to see PAP kindergarten?

So we met up with the visitors at their hotel at Bencoolen Street. We walked to Tekka Market, where I showed them the Singapore style hawker centre and wet market. Walking through the pasar with 5 tourists can be interesting, as you show them gigantic crabs and sharks and stingrays and all kinds of sights that they don't see back home. They just went WAH. From Tekka Market we walked up Serangoon Road under five-foot ways, talked about early urban planning in Singapore, and well, Little India. Then we walked to Kampong Glam and Arab Street area, looked at Sultan Mosque, talked about Bugis people, ya da ya da.

They said they heard about the toy museum and would want to visit it. So after Kampong Glam we went to the Mint Museum of Toys. Surprisingly it was the adults and not the little girl in the group who ended up feeling excited over the toys. I bet those old metallic toys brought back many childhood memories for them.

All in half a day. Anyone wanna join Crab Tour?
EDIT: we actually went to Museum of Shanghai Toys but we reached half an hour before its opening hour. Didn't go in in the end and that's why went to Mint.