The Arab Quarter is the closest Singapore will get to NYC. A few blocks long and a few blocks wide, with street names like Baghdad and Kandahar, this part of town is where you will find vintage shops, graffiti, sidewalk cafes, smoking dens, hostels, and lots of fabric & rug stores.
I was in the neighborhood on Saturday, writing at a coffee shop called Sleepy Sams. On my way back, I walked past a rug store, and the owner comes out, hollering, "Hey. Hey, where you from?" I said I was from the States, not breaking a stride. To which he responded, "You want a flying magic carpet?" I'm still trying to figure out if his sense of humor was dumb or his insult was brilliant.
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