—looks like the inter- galactic ship of a benev- olent alien race.The property has countless restaurants and shops, a casino, a 1.3-million- square-foot convention center, a theater, and much more.
foot chapel, the White Rabbit offers a warm, communal dining experi- ence, serving dishes that give classic European cuisine a modern spin. Warm your insides with the rich, tender 48-hour braised short ribs, and, on the drinks menu, choose between “The Classics” (a gin fizz, for example) and competi- tor category “The Rein- vented” (including an elderflower grapefruit fizz).The White Rabbit can accommodate 150 people for a seated dinner, or 400 for a reception.
nial era at the Raffles Hotel Singapore’s Long Bar,where the famous Singapore Sling cocktail was invented circa 1915. The 103-suite Raffles Hotel itself, founded in 1887, is the grand dame of the Lion City.
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The city’s most centrally located con-
vention venue, Suntec Singapore is also its most cleverly designed, with five floors stacked one atop another for a relatively small footprint —at least, for amore- than-one-million-square- foot facility. Suntec Sin- gapore’s top-floor, 129,000-square-foot Convention Halls are Asia’s largest column- free meeting space, with room for 10,000 people in theater- style seating.
Peranakan Museumcel- ebrates the unique cul- ture of the Peranakans —descendants of Chi- nese and Indian traders who remained in the area after marrying local Malay women.Housed within a pretty white “Eclectic Classical” building from 1912, the museum’s three floors explore this unique fusion culture by way of its wedding rituals, color- ful (in some instances almost Day-Glo) clothing, and more.