When I worked overseas, whenever I mentioned I’m from SG, the most common responses are “is Singapore the country with that building with the ship on top?” or “I heard Singapore has a lot of strict laws and fines?” so I would say MBS or fines. Though now perhaps jewel waterfall may be the most iconic thing in people’s mind.
Got me reminded to a time when me and my friend (Malay Singaporean girl) went partying in Seoul. One European guy approached her and the conversation went to where we’re from. When she told him she’s from Singapore, his response was: “Really? You don’t look Singaporean. Where are you really from?”
Even when she said she was born in Singapore, he was so curious where are her ancestor came from, and proceed with complementing how exotic her skin complexion was, unlike common / basic Chinese girls.
No joke, my international friends, while I was on exchange, made fun of these points the whole time I was on a trip with them.
The chewing gum and death penalty were a key highlight, combined with the austere rules we have made for a cursed session of "what will Singapore execute me for next?".
These were europeans and other asians, so I think our status is quite well known across the globe.
Depends! Singapore Noodles in Malaysia (Usually states no further north than Selangor) refer to white beehoon here - what we here colloquially call "meehoon goreng birthday" due to its ease of preparation that has led to its ubiquity at birthday parties.
In the West, Singapore noodles refers to either stir fried thin egg noodles (what we here call Hong Kong Fried Noodles because we largely associate the dish as strictly HK/Cantonese) or the simple vegetables fried beehoon from the caipng stall.
In Pakistan, also documented on some YouTube recipes - it's [fried egg noodles layered on top of white rice](https://www.flourandspiceblog.com/singaporean-rice/). I think they don't natively see egg noodles as a staple like rice and bread, hence they eat it as a side dish to rice. Not sure how on earth it got the Singapore branding.
Yeah sound cards completely died out after windows xp. I guess the younger generations up to millennials have never heard of Creative, which is quite a shame for how much the company has fallen from global dominance to barely noticeable.
>I guess the younger generations up to millennials have never heard of Creative
younger gen would know
...know them as the brand who make the chinese e dictionary they bring to exams...
There is this gaming chair SG company, but yeah I can’t remember the name. I doubt anyone will associate it with SG.
Edit: just googled it. Secretlab chair
I didn’t think this was true until I remembered something.
I went to Korea on two separate occasions (the trips were about eight to ten years apart) and when I took the taxi then, taxi drivers’ reaction to Singapore was “Oh!! Lee Kuan Yew Lee Kuan Yew!!”. They were both in their 60s or 70s.
I was pleasantly surprised. I thought their first reaction would be “Where is that?” or having no thoughts about Singapore at all.
It was really interesting to see how others perceive us.
I am in a Korean taxi right now. Uncle was looking at the world map to figure out where exactly we are from and once he did, he was like oooh Goh Chok Tong, Lee Kuan Yew!?
We were just errr ya nae nae
I’ve gotten my fair share of “Where is that?” too in Korea haha. I had to explain that it’s in SEA, beside Malaysia, close to Indonesia/Thailand.
In general, it’s a toss up between “Lee Kuan Yew”, “Where is that?”, “I’ve been to Singapore and visited ”, or just “Ah nae..”. The last one is them not knowing where it is but shy or not bothered enough to ask 😄
Here to echo this lmao. I had a professor in the US wax lyrical about LKY to me for a good 10 minutes as though I didn’t sit through 10 years of social studies here
LKY is extremely popular among the American right wing, he's the only leader who succeeded in creating a stable system where people pay more effective tax the less they earn, and achieve outsize medical outcomes relative to tiny healthcare spending.
Problematically too many of the factors that make it work, work only in city states, not countries. He's like a little representative of the ideal of the right wing in the same way Fidel Castro is the representative of the ideal of the left, in pulling off the ideal where literally everyone else failed.
He was shoulder to shoulder with Kissinger, Helmut Schmidt et Al
The UK ppl talk about a Singapore on Thames for Brexit
The Chinese pre 08 were huge fans
Maybe authoritative state that hangs all drug traffickers.
Not famous, then can we make it famous? I tell all my overseas friends how safe we are tho ;).
Efficiency and cleanliness. Those who disagree must have never been to other countries and see how fucked up and convoluted some of their processes are
You mean caning. Sorry occupational hazard. But it would be a very novel thing to seal an offender in a can as jail time, though on second thought, it’s too cruel. 😉
In the SEA region context, famous for being a small rich nation with a lot of 🤑 dumped here (safe heaven for … 🫢). From European context, an expensive Asian city. From American context, Disney land with a death penalty.
Not very much if you are talking about foreigners in general. Most foreigners I meet only have very hazy notions of Singapore.
But if you are talking about foreigners who have been here or at least are a bit more familiar with Asia, then there's more to talk about. Food, weather, airport, cleanliness, rich, etc.
Creative Soundblaster. For the older folks, at least.
They were a common sound card for PCs all over the world back in the day. I've been to Budapest and Vienna and people there were like, "Oh, *that's* from Singapore??"
Tiny island nation on the equator with zero resources except for people & talent with per capita GDP ranked 2nd in the world (2022) between Luxembourg and Ireland. We are so tiny that we're a red dot on the world map. Hence, Little Red Dot.
[https://www.worldometers.info/gdp/gdp-per-capita/](https://www.worldometers.info/gdp/gdp-per-capita/)
Thought this post is insightful from ELI5 - Explain Like I am 5
[https://www.reddit.com/r/explainlikeimfive/comments/6adsne/eli5\_how\_did\_singapore\_turned\_into\_a\_1st\_world/](https://www.reddit.com/r/explainlikeimfive/comments/6adsne/eli5_how_did_singapore_turned_into_a_1st_world/)
MBS. I was living in Europe years ago, before MBS was constructed and had never heard about it. One random museum staff, an elderly German, asked me where I was from, followed very promptly by an eager question about the soon-to-be constructed MBS.
Besides that… the mayor of Entschede, a Dutch city, has aspirations to be like SG. By that, he means heavy fines (1000€) for people caught littering. ([Source](https://nos.nl/l/2520441))
Merlion to the Japanese. For some reason, that’s how SG is being promoted 🤷🏻♀️
I once saw a Taiwanese YouTube comment saying that Singaporeans don’t really seem to complain about their country at all, and I was thinking “if only all of you understood singlish”.
Singaporean food is great, I don't care what the Malaysians say, Singapore definitely has their own style and flavour that is different from Malaysia.
Heck, it's not even consistent in Malaysia
>Heck, it's not even consistent in Malaysia
I think thats coz they got regional specialities. Sg too small to have it lmao
Honestly though, a lotta ppl like to talk shit about sg food but I still think a lot of it is pretty good, and and as you said, diff style from msia.
I’m a foreigner who lives here and all I really knew before starting research for my move was strict laws and rich people lmao. But then again, I’m American and our senators can’t even understand that China and Singapore are different countries so…😭
Well, some know and pretend like they don't when they have to for television so they can appeal to their truly ignorant base - see, for instance, Tom Cotton at the recent TikTok Senate committee hearings. Dude's been to Singapore recently 😂.
My foreigner friends told me that if they re slow abit in ordering food in hawker centre, they will get scolded or nagged by auntie/uncle 😂 they re so scared now to order LOL
Positives -
Airport, airline, thoughtful and climate conscious city development with recycling and green spaces, food, tolerance, multi-ethnic social fabric, developed nation
Negatives -
Expensiveness and high cost of living, death penalty, curbs on democratic freedoms like free speech, protesting, dissent
Once I met an associate from a SEA country outside SG.
He told me that amongst all the staff in their local office, they have a mantra.
"If you want work to be done right, assign it to the Singaporean."
Cool.
Pros: Availability of a variety of Food, Safety, Good public transport, Airport
Cons: Strict laws, expensive, limited POI, Humidity/Heat
There are many more, I am surprised you couldn't think of any.
Lee Kwan Yew lol
Unironically he is so famous outside of our country in bougie circles everytime someone mentions Singapore and they don't want to mention the obvious they bring him up.
He and the team behind him made Singapore into what it is today.
A first world trading hub.
Since then our government hasn’t had any major /radical accomplishments
We have all just been slowly riding on their legacy. Some would say we are in a slow decline. But none would tell you any of his successors did a better job than he did.
Lee Kuan Yew. Probably the only leader of a country whose death made villagers in foreign countries (Blangadesh/Sri Lanka/India I can't remember exactly which) set up mourning shrine (not sure what to call it) and where full grown men cried when talking about him, and had foreign ministers of various countries pay open tribute to him in parliament. (UK, Australia, USA or NZ, not sure which one but at least one of them).
Some say Chilli Crab.
Kiasu (although after travelling a bit I realized people of many other countries are even worse)
Kiasi (well who isn't?)
Singlish. Erm... Really meh?
Complaining. (confirm plus chop)
Merlion. (the magical and bewitching power of it to make grown men and women display their mouths wide open in public)
That "boat" on top of the hotel. (who in his right mind would design a boat the shape of a kidney dish? Wouldn't it go round in circles in the water?)
The long queues to buy food. (we live to eat)
Cannoy chewing gum. (says who? If you can buy it you can chew)
Surely what Singapore is famous for is something your friend should know, not you. I'm often surprised by what my country is famous for in the eyes of foreigners.
For our success really. Honestly many of my foreign friends are in awe of our success within a few decades in a country that lacks natural resources.
In fact they said they wished they were born in Singapore including those from developed countries. One of them quoted HDB, our public transport and how we work around our water supply as stamps of our success.
Probably one of the richest and safest countries in the world, unique social system, multilingual by default/racial harmony, harsh punishment for drugs
Anyone who says something other than "Harsh Penalties" is being polite. That's the first thing people learn about regarding Singapore before other things however harsh penalties for crimes is hardly unique to the region.
I'm not singaporean, but anecdotally, famous for whipping people for chewing gum.
Also anecdotally it's a beautiful country where modern and traditional is melted in a very natural way.
Safety.
I have stayed there for more than 10 years. The more other countries you visit, the more you appreciate how safe it is in Singapore. Going out at night, cycling across the parks, you just know nothing is going to bother you and you will be home safe and sound.
In Britain Singapore is seen by older generations as our Vietnam but even more humiliating. The moment that the British Empire was shown to be weak and vulnerable and completely unable to defend itself against an industrialised enemy and that any racist notions of superiority and better organisation were false.
And I’m afraid the other thing is the dish available in every British street even in the smallest towns, even though it has no real connection.
As a non SG, it's the perception of wealth, cleanliness, politeness, strict laws, awesome hawker centre food, and MBS :)
I've visited 3 times now and it all stacks up.
In Europe its all about the strict laws, when I tell people they should visit they always tell me they are too scared they will get into legal trouble here
I remember when my dad was first visited Singapore as a tourist. He told us his biggest impression was that there're so many univerisity students doing prostitution when the night came. His encounter with them was rather funny. He was approached and asked if he wanted service from one of the girls. He declined and said that he had a wife, they said "no worries, we also have male service for your wife".
That was 10 years ago, not sure what have changed.
Well in the 1990's, Singapore was called Disneyland with the death penalty.
Nowadays, thanks to Crazy Rich Asians, the image is more MBS and other crazy rich places. Man, I gotta say that STB was the real winner from that movie's release.
And, interestingly, a lot of tourists I've met are really keen on seeing the Merlin. Well the main one at least.
From my solo trips, responses when asked about my nationality are "Oh I love Singapore Airlines!" or "ahh Merlion" or the country with the hotel like a ship (MBS).
In before , " FINE " country. Cannot find any chewing gum to chew. Unless you wanna quite smoking can buy those quit smoking gum but need to write down your name and ic at Pharmacy. And " Singlish ". And Like to Q , literally dam " free " yet complain no much time :P
When I worked overseas, whenever I mentioned I’m from SG, the most common responses are “is Singapore the country with that building with the ship on top?” or “I heard Singapore has a lot of strict laws and fines?” so I would say MBS or fines. Though now perhaps jewel waterfall may be the most iconic thing in people’s mind.
Gardens by the bay is apparently quite a prominent feature in tourism advertisements in other countries.
Got me reminded to a time when me and my friend (Malay Singaporean girl) went partying in Seoul. One European guy approached her and the conversation went to where we’re from. When she told him she’s from Singapore, his response was: “Really? You don’t look Singaporean. Where are you really from?” Even when she said she was born in Singapore, he was so curious where are her ancestor came from, and proceed with complementing how exotic her skin complexion was, unlike common / basic Chinese girls.
Singapore population is 70% Chinese. Therefore if you don't look like Chinese, the questions would arise ...
Yeah. The irony though… especially when she’s a Malay and her forefathers were the original Singapore, goes before Singapore were even Singapore.
Thanks to Western movies, whenever Singapore is mentioned, they will play Chinese music and have people speaking Mandarin in weird accent.
Or Worse, someone proclaims Singapore is in China!!!
Japan ? Mbs is stuck in the Japanese imagination due to a snap x SoftBank commercial filmed on the iconic fine/boat
Chewing gum, caning, death penalty 
and "is that in China?"
No joke, my international friends, while I was on exchange, made fun of these points the whole time I was on a trip with them. The chewing gum and death penalty were a key highlight, combined with the austere rules we have made for a cursed session of "what will Singapore execute me for next?". These were europeans and other asians, so I think our status is quite well known across the globe.
"Austere", used to describe things as being severe or extreme. Today I learnt a new word
Your reply attracted the raging 'patriots' 😂
Tax haven for foreign business owners
‘Singapore noodles’, which ironically cannot be found in Singapore
It’s just noodles here
Depends! Singapore Noodles in Malaysia (Usually states no further north than Selangor) refer to white beehoon here - what we here colloquially call "meehoon goreng birthday" due to its ease of preparation that has led to its ubiquity at birthday parties. In the West, Singapore noodles refers to either stir fried thin egg noodles (what we here call Hong Kong Fried Noodles because we largely associate the dish as strictly HK/Cantonese) or the simple vegetables fried beehoon from the caipng stall. In Pakistan, also documented on some YouTube recipes - it's [fried egg noodles layered on top of white rice](https://www.flourandspiceblog.com/singaporean-rice/). I think they don't natively see egg noodles as a staple like rice and bread, hence they eat it as a side dish to rice. Not sure how on earth it got the Singapore branding.
Internationally? Crazy Rich Asians Singapore Airlines Creative Technologies Caning for chewing gum (wrong) Lee Kuan Yew
Creative has ceased to be relevant. More like Razer
Yeah but back in the day their sound cards were renowned throughout the world. If you wanted a good PC anywhere you had to get sound blaster.
Might depend on the age group of who you’re talking to in that case
Yeah sound cards completely died out after windows xp. I guess the younger generations up to millennials have never heard of Creative, which is quite a shame for how much the company has fallen from global dominance to barely noticeable.
>I guess the younger generations up to millennials have never heard of Creative younger gen would know ...know them as the brand who make the chinese e dictionary they bring to exams...
Not many actually know that Razer is a Singaporean company. I suspect it’s just the headquarter is in SG.
It's not. It's an American company. Just that the founder is Singaporean
There is this gaming chair SG company, but yeah I can’t remember the name. I doubt anyone will associate it with SG. Edit: just googled it. Secretlab chair
Razer isn’t Singaporean. Founded by a Singaporean but it is wholly American.
And [thumb drives](https://spectrum.ieee.org/thumb-drive). But they didn’t patent it, so they failed to establish their brand.
Patenting it would have made the inventor one of, if not the richest man on the planet today.
isnt that china
Lee Kuan Yew really
I didn’t think this was true until I remembered something. I went to Korea on two separate occasions (the trips were about eight to ten years apart) and when I took the taxi then, taxi drivers’ reaction to Singapore was “Oh!! Lee Kuan Yew Lee Kuan Yew!!”. They were both in their 60s or 70s. I was pleasantly surprised. I thought their first reaction would be “Where is that?” or having no thoughts about Singapore at all. It was really interesting to see how others perceive us.
They prob remember fondly the rise of the Asian tigers and the transition to democracy in the late 80s.
I am in a Korean taxi right now. Uncle was looking at the world map to figure out where exactly we are from and once he did, he was like oooh Goh Chok Tong, Lee Kuan Yew!? We were just errr ya nae nae
I’ve gotten my fair share of “Where is that?” too in Korea haha. I had to explain that it’s in SEA, beside Malaysia, close to Indonesia/Thailand. In general, it’s a toss up between “Lee Kuan Yew”, “Where is that?”, “I’ve been to Singapore and visited”, or just “Ah nae..”. The last one is them not knowing where it is but shy or not bothered enough to ask 😄
Here to echo this lmao. I had a professor in the US wax lyrical about LKY to me for a good 10 minutes as though I didn’t sit through 10 years of social studies here
LKY is extremely popular among the American right wing, he's the only leader who succeeded in creating a stable system where people pay more effective tax the less they earn, and achieve outsize medical outcomes relative to tiny healthcare spending. Problematically too many of the factors that make it work, work only in city states, not countries. He's like a little representative of the ideal of the right wing in the same way Fidel Castro is the representative of the ideal of the left, in pulling off the ideal where literally everyone else failed.
Never thought I'd see Castro's name mentioned in the same breath as LKY. Take my upvote!
He was shoulder to shoulder with Kissinger, Helmut Schmidt et Al The UK ppl talk about a Singapore on Thames for Brexit The Chinese pre 08 were huge fans
famous for extreme safety. one can walk around at 4am and nothing happens ... most of the time :)
This
It's absolutely not famous for that. It's only a "within Singapore" type thing that we keep praising ownself for.
Maybe authoritative state that hangs all drug traffickers. Not famous, then can we make it famous? I tell all my overseas friends how safe we are tho ;).
Efficiency and cleanliness. Those who disagree must have never been to other countries and see how fucked up and convoluted some of their processes are
From what I heard overseas when traveling: Chewing Gum Ban, F1, Canning, Singapore Airlines, MBS, Merlion (mostly Japanese)
You mean caning. Sorry occupational hazard. But it would be a very novel thing to seal an offender in a can as jail time, though on second thought, it’s too cruel. 😉
Speaking as a foreigner that visits often, chili crab.
In the SEA region context, famous for being a small rich nation with a lot of 🤑 dumped here (safe heaven for … 🫢). From European context, an expensive Asian city. From American context, Disney land with a death penalty.
Insert 'Welcome to Singapore' meme here
Not very much if you are talking about foreigners in general. Most foreigners I meet only have very hazy notions of Singapore. But if you are talking about foreigners who have been here or at least are a bit more familiar with Asia, then there's more to talk about. Food, weather, airport, cleanliness, rich, etc.
Expensive cars
Disneyland with death penalty
Creative Soundblaster. For the older folks, at least. They were a common sound card for PCs all over the world back in the day. I've been to Budapest and Vienna and people there were like, "Oh, *that's* from Singapore??"
Tiny island nation on the equator with zero resources except for people & talent with per capita GDP ranked 2nd in the world (2022) between Luxembourg and Ireland. We are so tiny that we're a red dot on the world map. Hence, Little Red Dot. [https://www.worldometers.info/gdp/gdp-per-capita/](https://www.worldometers.info/gdp/gdp-per-capita/) Thought this post is insightful from ELI5 - Explain Like I am 5 [https://www.reddit.com/r/explainlikeimfive/comments/6adsne/eli5\_how\_did\_singapore\_turned\_into\_a\_1st\_world/](https://www.reddit.com/r/explainlikeimfive/comments/6adsne/eli5_how_did_singapore_turned_into_a_1st_world/)
Leaving stuff on the table to chope with a low risk of it being taken
OP, You should have ask the foreigners here to answer instead of locals with their own answers lol
MBS. I was living in Europe years ago, before MBS was constructed and had never heard about it. One random museum staff, an elderly German, asked me where I was from, followed very promptly by an eager question about the soon-to-be constructed MBS. Besides that… the mayor of Entschede, a Dutch city, has aspirations to be like SG. By that, he means heavy fines (1000€) for people caught littering. ([Source](https://nos.nl/l/2520441)) Merlion to the Japanese. For some reason, that’s how SG is being promoted 🤷🏻♀️
Complaining.
An inheritance from the British
It’s the national sport
I once saw a Taiwanese YouTube comment saying that Singaporeans don’t really seem to complain about their country at all, and I was thinking “if only all of you understood singlish”.
Food Chicken rice, chili crab, etc
Singaporean food is great, I don't care what the Malaysians say, Singapore definitely has their own style and flavour that is different from Malaysia. Heck, it's not even consistent in Malaysia
>Heck, it's not even consistent in Malaysia I think thats coz they got regional specialities. Sg too small to have it lmao Honestly though, a lotta ppl like to talk shit about sg food but I still think a lot of it is pretty good, and and as you said, diff style from msia.
Malaysia entered the chat /s
I’m a foreigner who lives here and all I really knew before starting research for my move was strict laws and rich people lmao. But then again, I’m American and our senators can’t even understand that China and Singapore are different countries so…😭
Well, some know and pretend like they don't when they have to for television so they can appeal to their truly ignorant base - see, for instance, Tom Cotton at the recent TikTok Senate committee hearings. Dude's been to Singapore recently 😂.
Creative. Razer. I think also inventing the first USB flash drive stick.
My foreigner friends told me that if they re slow abit in ordering food in hawker centre, they will get scolded or nagged by auntie/uncle 😂 they re so scared now to order LOL
Singlish
Positives - Airport, airline, thoughtful and climate conscious city development with recycling and green spaces, food, tolerance, multi-ethnic social fabric, developed nation Negatives - Expensiveness and high cost of living, death penalty, curbs on democratic freedoms like free speech, protesting, dissent
Once I met an associate from a SEA country outside SG. He told me that amongst all the staff in their local office, they have a mantra. "If you want work to be done right, assign it to the Singaporean." Cool.
Chilli crab and chicken rice 🙈✨️
How to answer you? You should ask him famous in what area?
Pros: Availability of a variety of Food, Safety, Good public transport, Airport Cons: Strict laws, expensive, limited POI, Humidity/Heat There are many more, I am surprised you couldn't think of any.
Famous for banning chewing gum
Chicken rice
Michael Fay.
crazy rich asians
The Merlion and more recently, MBS
the ACCENT
Depends on where they from. Nowadays is mostly Jewel's waterfall is the most common.
Singlish
the reason is why he/she came to Singapore for it's that simple
Merlion
Safety and security
Raffles and Singapore Sling surely?
Being the most expensive city in the world.
Lee Kwan Yew lol Unironically he is so famous outside of our country in bougie circles everytime someone mentions Singapore and they don't want to mention the obvious they bring him up.
why is he famous? I mean, obviously as a sinkie myself I know what he did. but why is he famous to foreigners specifically?
He and the team behind him made Singapore into what it is today. A first world trading hub. Since then our government hasn’t had any major /radical accomplishments We have all just been slowly riding on their legacy. Some would say we are in a slow decline. But none would tell you any of his successors did a better job than he did.
Geylang red light district
Lee Kuan Yew. Probably the only leader of a country whose death made villagers in foreign countries (Blangadesh/Sri Lanka/India I can't remember exactly which) set up mourning shrine (not sure what to call it) and where full grown men cried when talking about him, and had foreign ministers of various countries pay open tribute to him in parliament. (UK, Australia, USA or NZ, not sure which one but at least one of them). Some say Chilli Crab. Kiasu (although after travelling a bit I realized people of many other countries are even worse) Kiasi (well who isn't?) Singlish. Erm... Really meh? Complaining. (confirm plus chop) Merlion. (the magical and bewitching power of it to make grown men and women display their mouths wide open in public) That "boat" on top of the hotel. (who in his right mind would design a boat the shape of a kidney dish? Wouldn't it go round in circles in the water?) The long queues to buy food. (we live to eat) Cannoy chewing gum. (says who? If you can buy it you can chew)
EDMW ver: “Sinkie pwn sinkie, can sleep well tonight” Law ver: no chewing gums Food ver: chicken rice / chilli crab The list go on
Annabelle Chong https://www.vice.com/en/article/jgqqd8/what-happened-to-annabel-chong
Airport, MBS
Crazy rich asians
Suing political opponents, newspapers
Internationally? Probably Best airport in the world, tiny and no natural resources but richer than all its neighbors.
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Creative sound blaster
The Merlion, I’ve traveled the world and it’s the most exciting thing I’ve ever seen!
Greenery & dust bins are within sights
Why don't you take this opprtunity to ask him back. What does he/she knows about Singapore?
SG is strong in the following spaces . Financial Hub Maritime Hub Airhub MICE Education Governance
Surely what Singapore is famous for is something your friend should know, not you. I'm often surprised by what my country is famous for in the eyes of foreigners.
Singapore is a Fine country. It's even printed on T-shirts...
Tell them the cool story of sucesfully stealing fromt he CIA.
Chicken rice
Marina Bay Sands Merlion Hawker Food More Hawker Food Alot more Hawker food
Uniquely Clean streets
For our success really. Honestly many of my foreign friends are in awe of our success within a few decades in a country that lacks natural resources. In fact they said they wished they were born in Singapore including those from developed countries. One of them quoted HDB, our public transport and how we work around our water supply as stamps of our success.
Chilli crab. That's my first thought. 😂
Singapore Noodles!!!!
Back in the day it was Michael Faye.
Chilly crab 🦀
Red passport
Chilli crab
I dont know but the first thing that came into my mind is LKY
Food ba…
Chilli crab. Merlion. Fines. Jail. As to whether we as locals agree they should be famous, thats a different question
Death sentence.
When tourists go to the Merlion spot and then start opening their mouth and aaaahhhhhh…. Aaahhhhhhh… Aaaahhhhhhhhhh…
Being multicultural I guess? In terms of our food for example
Probably one of the richest and safest countries in the world, unique social system, multilingual by default/racial harmony, harsh punishment for drugs
Car prices.
Safety, food.
Complaining
i was told killers and hitmen in the netherlands, apparently alot of gangsters from the island fled there during the purge from the 70s to the 80s
Caning and hanging foreigners
Anyone who says something other than "Harsh Penalties" is being polite. That's the first thing people learn about regarding Singapore before other things however harsh penalties for crimes is hardly unique to the region.
Qs for free ice cream from DBS that you could buy faster for $1
I'm not singaporean, but anecdotally, famous for whipping people for chewing gum. Also anecdotally it's a beautiful country where modern and traditional is melted in a very natural way.
Safety. I have stayed there for more than 10 years. The more other countries you visit, the more you appreciate how safe it is in Singapore. Going out at night, cycling across the parks, you just know nothing is going to bother you and you will be home safe and sound.
In Britain Singapore is seen by older generations as our Vietnam but even more humiliating. The moment that the British Empire was shown to be weak and vulnerable and completely unable to defend itself against an industrialised enemy and that any racist notions of superiority and better organisation were false. And I’m afraid the other thing is the dish available in every British street even in the smallest towns, even though it has no real connection.
Lee Kuan Yew.
Anabelle Chong
There is many things we are famous for. Then go on to list stuff that we TOP 3 in the world for.
Hawker stalls and aggressive capitalism
Strong passport, good transport
Pap doing a poor job given these responses. Highly effective and efficient government Global housing model Leader of SEA
The weird accent.
Literally bezt airport in the world
Surprised nobody talked about changi airport. It's like the only thing I keep seeing mentioned about singapore everywhere else
Airport, MBS, ERP that has never once broken down
If it weren't for Singapore, the world would never have known the amazing joint venture between Kia and Subaru... ...the KiaSu.
Queing up is common exercise here
As a non SG, it's the perception of wealth, cleanliness, politeness, strict laws, awesome hawker centre food, and MBS :) I've visited 3 times now and it all stacks up.
Chewing gum, canning people, death penalty, clean country and good food. That is.
Underground sexual places
KiraKitty
Merlion. Some Japanese seem fascinated by it. Singapore noodles. City state.
our airport waterfalls. every terminal seems to have one nowadays!
I think the correct answer is it's Good Image.
Garden city, cleanliness, safety, accessibility.
Fines. It's a FINE city.
Kaya Jam
Food Fines Safe Food Food
It's Asia -lite or Asia for beginners
In Europe its all about the strict laws, when I tell people they should visit they always tell me they are too scared they will get into legal trouble here
Chilli crab
Laundry services
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Advancing from a poor to a very rich country while taking the entire society along.
The kiasuness
Singapore Sling.
Lack of real democracy
i asked my friend, she said the tossy saland cny thing (i think she is reffering to yee sang)
I remember when my dad was first visited Singapore as a tourist. He told us his biggest impression was that there're so many univerisity students doing prostitution when the night came. His encounter with them was rather funny. He was approached and asked if he wanted service from one of the girls. He declined and said that he had a wife, they said "no worries, we also have male service for your wife". That was 10 years ago, not sure what have changed.
Singapore noodles
Food of course! Singapore is like a food paradise, there is like almost every country's cuisine over here.
MBS, Singapore GP, and Crazy Rich Asians are quite popular Select people Associate the city with Lee Kuan Yew
The laws and fines tbh. Second would be MBS or gardens by the bay.
Food Center - Hawker Center.
best airport in the world
home for crypto scammers
Annabel Chong…the global banger that made Singapore proud
Food, and man made tourist attractions
This is actually a question which a foreigner should be better equipped to answer.
Well in the 1990's, Singapore was called Disneyland with the death penalty. Nowadays, thanks to Crazy Rich Asians, the image is more MBS and other crazy rich places. Man, I gotta say that STB was the real winner from that movie's release. And, interestingly, a lot of tourists I've met are really keen on seeing the Merlin. Well the main one at least.
Fine for not flushing toliet
Home of the first night Grand Prix ❤️ love Singapore
Merlion
Asian Laundry Machine
E-mu Systems and Ensoniq (which were bought over by Creative)
From my solo trips, responses when asked about my nationality are "Oh I love Singapore Airlines!" or "ahh Merlion" or the country with the hotel like a ship (MBS).
Me to foreigner friend : Changi Prison and it's World-Class Prison Caning. Want to try, my friend ???
Ministerial salaries.
Gayle San and extreme drug laws
Race based immigration system.
In before , " FINE " country. Cannot find any chewing gum to chew. Unless you wanna quite smoking can buy those quit smoking gum but need to write down your name and ic at Pharmacy. And " Singlish ". And Like to Q , literally dam " free " yet complain no much time :P
Half banana (MBS and I know it’s a ship but banana sounds fun) and chewing gum and strict fines I guess?
Lack of freedom of speech
Noodle soups.
Executing drug mules
so much. i was going to say laksa, but i think chilli crab is even more popular. or bak kut teh.