New Guide to Singapore
Singapore in a Modern, Funky Style: This is One For the Fun Trip
New guides to Singapore come out regularly, but the stylishly small and compact Graffiti Guide to Singapore, will take you to parts of Singapore never dreamt of.
A new guide book has arrived in the bookshops, just in time for anyone planning a trip to Singapore. This one is different from most others, and even with heaps of illustrations, it is small and compact enough to slip into a pocket. The right guide book at the right time can make all the difference to enjoying a place and this Graffiti Guide to Singapore opens up the City of Singapore like no other guide book, with a combination of off-beat places to visit and interviews with local trend-setters.
Graffiti Travel Guide to Singapore:
Without a doubt, this is a fun book. It’s written in a quirky style, and although it could have done without some of the faded black print on a grey background, on the whole the reader should have no complaints. In fact, it’s a good read whether or not you plan to visit Singapore.
It’s a book written with love by a Singaporean who loves the city and wants everyone to enjoy it too, by touring his favourite spots. A travel guide with a difference, where words, pictures, and design come together to give you the essence of the city.
Guide books to Singapore usually win high praise, as Singapore is a city with so much to offer, but they do tend to tell you the same things, advise the same tours, the same Singaporean food and the same places to eat etc.
This one eschews colonial memories, breakfasts with Orang Utans and shopping in Orchard Road and conjures up a different Singapore, a realistic image of Singapore told in a poetic and creative style by people who live there. Like a very modern cutting-edge magazine this graffiti guide to Singapore has quirky images, colours and patterns.
It also has fascinating interviews with other Singaporeans who comment on their area and advise on the best places to visit, places like Bollywood Veggies Farm, Poison Ivy Bistro,The Earshot Café and the Singapore Arts Café for instance. And a visit to the Bios-9000 Centre with current charged electrostatic cushions which promise a new sort of therapy will be something a lot of visitors will want to try.
You will find Interviews with people like photographer Tay Kay Chin and a list of foods to ask for when you need a sugar rush or when you want a spicey dish. There are strolls through the fashion district and interviews with fashion designers - even vintage clothing shops make the pages. And you can be as interactive as you like, and insert your own thoughts and impressions on the blank sheets of paper in the guide.
This book has everything the young, modern visitor looks for. Find it at all good bookshops. Buy it in Singapore, it's cheaper there.
