Where else can you have about 150g of chicken tikka, a piece of naan along with curried vegetables for dinner for $6?

Singapore always gets called a foodie haven. With good reason. I’m impressed by how, as a country develops, the food gets of wider variety.

When I came here 13 years ago, one of the best places to get Western food was Pete’s Place at they Hyatt, or in an italian restaurant at the Shangri-La. These days, although hotels are still of merit there are just so many options to eat its rather embarassing. Embarassing because when someone asks me where should we eat, a million options come to mind yet I say the obvious. Kind of stupid at times as well.

One of the marks of Singapore’s development for me was the introduction of Turkish food. Coming from Sydney and having worked in Redfern for years, I was well used to Turkish food, sometimes even on a daily basis. It wasn’t until about 5 years ago I started to notice more Turkish food options here. Well to be truthful, there were Turkish food options 10, 12 years ago, but they weren’t that great. Nowadays you can have the most amazing Persian and Turkish food yum…