Holland Village

We viewed a property in Holland Village and as we liked it very much we decided to return to the area for dinner and to get a feel of the place. The "village" is on a small hill and there are a few streets with little shops, the baker, the pharmacy, the hairdresser and so on and loads of little restaurants. In the centre of it all there is a little round market split in the middle with tables and hawkers on one side and the fish market on the other. In this area you can choose any food you like from tiny little stalls the size of a cubicle in a changing room and each one specialises in something different. You get your drinks from the fresh juice stall and the dumplings from the dumpling stall and chicken and rice from the chicken and rice stall and....by now you should have understood the general idea! You get you food and drinks and sit at any table.
Standing at the sides of the semicircle the cleaners are waiting with their little cleaning stations on wheels and each time somebody finishes their meal they hurry to the table to remove the plates and clean up ready for somebody new.
After our meal of fried dumplings -that should have been steamed but the little guy at the stall decided otherwise- and chicken washed down with watermelon juice, we headed towards the other side of the village where the pet store, the beauty parlour and the small supermarket (called Cold Storage) are and we jumped on a bus back to Orchard proudly using our permanent bus pass for the first time as this makes us true Singaporeans.