Singapore - 2 days
Dec 31st, 2015, 02:52 PM
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Hi - We will be traveling from Bali to Singapore, spending 2 days in Singapore before heading home.
What ideas/sights could you all recommend for our short visit? We will be in Singapore the end of February. Thanks in advance!
What ideas/sights could you all recommend for our short visit? We will be in Singapore the end of February. Thanks in advance!
Dec 31st, 2015, 07:47 PM
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Thank you, Guenmai, for the quick response. I really appreciate this. After reading the links, I have a queation-you say you will be buying some more sarongs. Do you live in the US, and do you wear them or are they gifts? I always enjoy clothing from other countries, but often feel out of place. Nothing says travel, like a fashion piece!
Jan 1st, 2016, 05:01 AM
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I wear my sarongs at home in L.A. and also on overseas trips. I have my silk, tulis batik ones with me, here on vacation in S.E.Asia. They are my serious ones as I wear them with my kebayas. They weigh almost nothing and are very easy to pack and function as my dressy evening wear. I buy the silk ones at Toko Aljunied's in Singapore (95 Arab Street). The owners are Radiah(sp?) and her brother. Just ask for her. It's a small shop.
I've bought from the Aljunied family for probably 15 years and drop by on every trip. Radiah gets in silk sarongs and the silk shawls from small villages in Indonesia. Only so many pieces are made annually and the silk, tulis batik sarong comes in a package with a silk shawl. The sarong silk is sturdy, like Thai silk, but very flexible and the matching shawl, is lightweight and flowing, Chinese silk. We have been talking, for over a decade, about the art of tulis batik possibly dying as young people want to do chop. The designs for tulis batik are hand drawn with a special pen-like instrument which takes forever.
As for my kebayas, one I had custom made a decade ago in Singapore, at True Blue when it was located in Katong, and the other one I bought, off the rack, at Rumah Bebe in Singapore. The custom made one was very expensive and took many months to make and then was flown to me in L.A. The Katong area in Singapore is one of the Paranakan areas. The street that Rumah Bebe is on is one of the streets one can walk.
http://www.yelp.com.sg/biz/rumah-bebe-singapore
As for cotton, tulis batik sarongs and ones that are one of a kind and come out of Indonesia, I've bought mine at Naga House in the Tanglin CENTRE (not Tanglin MALL). I've been going there since the early 2000s. Roz and her husband are the owners and they have some gorgeous, one-of-a-kind vintage, cotton sarongs that they find down in Indonesia.They also have real, Nyonya jewelry, which is where I bought mine years ago.
http://www.streetdirectory.com/busin...branchid=31390
Below is an example of kebayas and sarongs. The really good kebayas are made of a very transparent fabric, like the one that I had custom made and of which has a lot of embroidery. Mine is very similar to the one on the book cover below and it is also blue, but navy blue, and made of that same kind of transparent fabric. The Nyonya Kebaya book is an excellent one and has been on my coffee table for many years.
At the Peranakan Museum in Singapore, there are mannequins wearing Nyonya clothing and next door to the museum is True Blue restaurant.
http://books.simonandschuster.com/Th.../9780794602734
http://www.littlenyonyabatik.com
*If, after I post, the word kebaya pops up as kabob, it's because of this crazy spell check.
Happy Travels!
I've bought from the Aljunied family for probably 15 years and drop by on every trip. Radiah gets in silk sarongs and the silk shawls from small villages in Indonesia. Only so many pieces are made annually and the silk, tulis batik sarong comes in a package with a silk shawl. The sarong silk is sturdy, like Thai silk, but very flexible and the matching shawl, is lightweight and flowing, Chinese silk. We have been talking, for over a decade, about the art of tulis batik possibly dying as young people want to do chop. The designs for tulis batik are hand drawn with a special pen-like instrument which takes forever.
As for my kebayas, one I had custom made a decade ago in Singapore, at True Blue when it was located in Katong, and the other one I bought, off the rack, at Rumah Bebe in Singapore. The custom made one was very expensive and took many months to make and then was flown to me in L.A. The Katong area in Singapore is one of the Paranakan areas. The street that Rumah Bebe is on is one of the streets one can walk.
http://www.yelp.com.sg/biz/rumah-bebe-singapore
As for cotton, tulis batik sarongs and ones that are one of a kind and come out of Indonesia, I've bought mine at Naga House in the Tanglin CENTRE (not Tanglin MALL). I've been going there since the early 2000s. Roz and her husband are the owners and they have some gorgeous, one-of-a-kind vintage, cotton sarongs that they find down in Indonesia.They also have real, Nyonya jewelry, which is where I bought mine years ago.
http://www.streetdirectory.com/busin...branchid=31390
Below is an example of kebayas and sarongs. The really good kebayas are made of a very transparent fabric, like the one that I had custom made and of which has a lot of embroidery. Mine is very similar to the one on the book cover below and it is also blue, but navy blue, and made of that same kind of transparent fabric. The Nyonya Kebaya book is an excellent one and has been on my coffee table for many years.
At the Peranakan Museum in Singapore, there are mannequins wearing Nyonya clothing and next door to the museum is True Blue restaurant.
http://books.simonandschuster.com/Th.../9780794602734
http://www.littlenyonyabatik.com
*If, after I post, the word kebaya pops up as kabob, it's because of this crazy spell check.
Happy Travels!
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Good morning Guenmai, thank you again for the wonderful and thorough description. I really appreciate the details and links. I look forward to my shopping experience and taking your tips with me. Cheers!
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