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EXPERIENCE THE SINGAPORE THIEVES MARKET

 

Do you want to visit an exciting secret in one of the most exciting places in the world? Excitehotels.com as an online hotel reservation portal wraps your sojourn in exotic Singapore with care and detailed attention to offer accommodations that are exciting, exhilarating and expressive. Throbbing with pulsating activity, Singapore showcases the exceptional Thieves Market on Sungei Road that displays second-hand goods, bric-a-brac and stolen goods and
was originally known in Chinese in the Hokkein dialect as ‘Tek kah ma ta chu’ that means ‘Tek kah police station’ and also literally means ‘River Road’. Sharing the art of caring, Excitehotels.com goes that extra mile to offer accommodations that touch the heart. As an exciting interlude, visitors staying in fabulous accommodations can venture in to the endless world of the Thieves Market in Singapore and browse to their hearts’ content through interesting merchandise. Awash with ‘rags to riches stories, the Thieves Market buzzes with intriguing ware sold by honest and hardworking karung guni men or rag and bone men.
 

Visitors staying in lovely accommodations would love to wander through the interesting and intriguing Sungei Road that houses the Thieves Market or the oldest flea market in Singapore. Evolving with collectors’ items, contraband goods, bicycles, motor parts, clothing, counterfeit watches, cheap replacement for one’s faulty or lost items, mobile phones, pirated VCDs, the Thieves Market is also notorious for stolen and lost goods. Seasoned collectors and guests staying in excellent accommodations booked through Excitehotels.com will be interested in the fact that the Thieves Market was originally used as a place where army gear, army surplus items and uniforms were sold though no-one knows for a fact whether these goods were stolen or not! As another interesting fact, the shophouses on Sungei Road were destroyed in a fire along with opium dens that were popular with the worker class. Guests staying in comfortable and roomy accommodations can occasionally find treasures, valuable items or home appliance parts or old electronic items on a lucky day at the Thieves Market in Singapore. Visitors can take a delectable tour on Sungei Road and taste the famed Sungei Road Laksa at Jin Shui Kopitiam, the word ‘kopitiam’ means ‘coffee shop’ in Malay. Owned by Wong Yew Hwa, the tasty laksa dish comprises of a spicy soup derived from the fabled Peranakan culture. Featured as one of the top ten dishes in the local food guide, the laksa is heated over a charcoal fire constantly to maintain its flavor and originality.

 

EXPLORE AN ARRAY OF INCREDIBLE WARE

The tourists staying at warm and cozy accommodations arranged by Excitehotels.com with care as part of their corporate culture, can take a walking tour of the Thieves Market that begins at the Big Road or Jalan Besar. Tourists will be intrigued to find that some of the offshoots of the road are named after World War I personalities and battle sites. Displaying a toy museum and an art gallery in the 1930s, the Thieves Market in Singapore is also known as ‘Robinson Petang’ or ‘Evening Robinson’ called after the sophisticated Robinson department store as a tongue-in-cheek reference. Visitors staying in hospitable accommodations booked with care through Excitehotels.com online hotel reservations portal can take a leisurely stroll through the Thieves Market in Singapore and browse through a colorful kaleidoscope of goods that consist of toys, souvenirs, knickknacks, decorative objects, amulets, accessories, clothes, shoes, vinyl records, cassettes, DVDs/VCDs, household items, old books, magazines, kitchenware, photos, watches and many more thrilling finds. Excitehotels.com offers their guests a pleasant experience as they browse through their interesting website and fulfills all requests with sincere and wonderful services. 

 
As a one-of-its-kind experience, the Thieves Market in Singapore opens at noon time and closes at 7pm. Guests staying in beautiful accommodations booked through Excitehotels.com online hotel reservation portal will be able to see the unique architecture that adorns both the sides of Jalan Besar. The Singapore Shophouse exhibits wooden louvered windows, a covered walkway also known as a five-foot walkway typical of colonial days. Ranging over various styles of architecture, the buildings on Jalan Besar also display art deco to the Singapore Eclectic style with Chinese Baroque and a fusion of Chinese and Western styles of architecture. Attractive and appealing, the shophouses display decorative plasterwork and grillwork. Rowell Road leads to the Museum of Shangai Toys, a lovely gallery and a restaurant that serves guests a vegetarian menu that also offers the Tempeh or a fermented soybean cake, vegan chocolate brownie and burgers. History buffs staying in art deco accommodations can discover roads named after battle sites, French and British generals. As guests return to rest and energize themselves for more entertainment, they can stop off at Swee Choon to let the taste buds go on a delicious journey with handmade traditional dessert, bao and dim sum. Visitors can admire the gorgeous plaster reliefs of flowers, birds Japanese and European lilies and plaster figures of soldiers displaying the Chinese Baroque style on Petain Road. As twilight closes its curtains on the famous Thieves Market, guests can carry their trophies from the oldest flea market in Singapore back to their incredible accommodations to cherish and treasure. Excitehotels.com offers a sensational sojourn in stunning accommodations that touches your world with care.
 
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Getting There:

You can take the MRT to Bugis Station. Walk up Rochor Road until you hit the junction at Jalan Besar. Turn left and you will see the Thieves Market. The best times to visit are weekend afternoons though the flea market is open every day

 
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