Food and Traditional Recipes

Singapore, the capital of culinary mix

Laksa

Singapore is known as the culinary capital of Asia and the cuisine is a prime example of the ethnic mix and cultural diversity, even has websites dedicated to the best local soup or fried noodles there is also a diversity of culinary creations in the street stalls , popular for their traditional reputation for fine dining. This cuisine has influences such as Malay, Chinese and Indian (especially Tamil food) and also has Western influences due to the occupation of the islands by the British in the nineteenth century. There are many delicious dishes such as the National dish "Hokkien" (fried noodles) and is also known for its abundance of tropical fruits. Here you can find an incredible amount of restaurants offering varieties of specialties at affordable prices.
As an example of variety and fusion of local food styles fused many cultures and traditions, for example: Couple of pieces of prata (flat bread hojalrado plan of Indian origin) Soaked in spicy dahl (lentil curry) served with teh Tarik (frothy chai tea with condensed milk) Chinese food (Cantonese, Hainan, Hokkien, sishuan, teochow), fish and shellfish, vegetarian, Malay, Indian, Indonesian, nyonya, Japanese, Thai, Korean, Burmese, Italian, Taiwanese, French or Western, there for every taste, every budget and all for a low cost 2.5 dollars.

The Siu Mai

To enjoy a good meal and enjoy Asian flavors, is required destination "East Coaste Seafood Centre" where you can taste the most famous dishes of Singapore such as "Chili Crab" or the traditional Arroz con Pollo, "the laksa (spicy noodle soup) and the "Satay" (skewers) sold in food courts and cafes, or you can go to "hawker center", "the Hawkers" (a kind of food Court) that were former street markets selling specialties from the same sidewalks and had small stools and tables where a dish costs between 3 and 5 SGD, and can be seen as originating in China chefs prepare delicious and well prepared Indian dishes, while Indian chefs prepare various Malaysian dishes so that Singapore has become an example of gastronomic diversity.
All this has become a cult among Singaporeans, the food is paramount for them. And you need to have all of the various cultures that exist and live in a place, from simple tavern at the finest restaurants of the most elegant hotels. The main restaurant area is the "Newton Circus" Although the city may be branches of major international fast food chains. 

The cuisine in Singapore has many spices as:

The Satay Pork

• Fish
• Red Sauce
• Peanut Sauce (Sambal Kacang)
• Chile
• Coconut Milk
• Sauteed
• Exotic fruit desserts

Some of the foods and dishes featured are:

• The kwee teow Char: rice noodles with shrimp and pork
• The Satay Pork: Pork skewers
• The Siu Mai Steamed Wonton with Pork and Prawns
• The Rebong Char: Shrimp and Spicy Pork with Bamboo
• And her chicken salad with ginger
• Laksa: Noodle Soup is a very seasoned and extremely popular in the Peranakan culture, and is a blend of Chinese culture with Malay and can be found in parts of Malaysia and Singapore

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http://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Singapur

Myths And Legends

The Navigators Are Abundant Like Their Myths

Villa Haw Par

Myths and legends of Singapore are as varied as one can imagine, as their variety and diversity of cultures make there a lot of myths and legends. Singapore has an amusement park "that takes you to hell" that was built in 1937 by 2 brothers Sino-Burmese (Aw Boon Haw and Aw Boon Par) where there is a demon with his tongue out and has more than 1,000 statues dioramas vividly depicting tales, myths and traditional Chinese beliefs and exposing "10 wards of hell" and certainly in no other place in the world there is a theme park of its kind. The purpose of this is to teach moral park visitors and perhaps scare. Many of the myths and legends in Singapore come from sailors and navigators.

Villa Haw Par The Hell

Some of their myths and legends are:

• Legend has it that an Píncipe Sumatra Malay found a lion in Temasek and ordered him to find Singapore or "Lion City" and when he found he found he named the country as SINGAPORE making reference to lion that had order to find their place. Although it is noteworthy that there are no lions in Singapore so are said to be confused with a tiger.
• A legend says that Singapore was named in the twelfth century, when a prince of Palambang arrived on its shores and faced with a fierce lion and the call since Singapore gets its name which means "Lion City" in Sanskrit .
• Another myth about a man who can not stand the lies and say that if you listen to some, no matter where you will come and cut his tongue with a knife, but not only that, if you cheat on the exam will get you out the same organs and intestines because it says I do not need because you will be a person who will not grow and will not serve anyone anywhere.
• There is a myth which is the first Monday of April, which is considered a bad day to venture into the sea for Singaporeans by the belief that not only was the day that Cain was born, but it is also the day on which killed his brother Abel. So if you sail you run the risk of not returning.
• There is a myth which is the second Monday in August is not a good day for sailing because that's when God's wrath devastated to Sodom and Gomorrah and the sea may becomes cloudy
• The December 31 is not a good day for boaters since according to popular tradition was the day chosen by Judas Iscariot hung himself and believed that if you risk sailing boat capsize
• On Wednesday, in English, comes from "wodin's day" Wodin day, the patron god of sailors making it the best day to go sailing
• The coffins and flowers are not welcome inside the ships as they are considered to funerals and says "you're waiting for something bad happens"
• Like to wear open umbrella on a boat is strictly prohibited for boaters as implying a lack of respect for the gods and could provoke

"Lion City"

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Customs and Traditions

A Country With Different Customs And Traditions

The main Particularity in Singapore lies in its multi-ethnic character and where behind the facade of the modern city are still evident ethnic traits since immigrants of the past have resulted in the creation of a mixture of influences and is precisely the cultural and religious diversity that attracts and surprises of Singapore.

Politeness rules are very rigid in this place. But it also has another side, which is that of a place where reigns the atmosphere clean and tidy and the people are cordial to each other.

Cultural diversity and the great religious tolerance can be seen very well in the calendar of holidays and national holidays, which are of different celebrations of different cultures and religions. The beauty of its many cultures is the amount of celebrations and festivals celebrating by these same. Many of these celebrations take place in the territory of the Gulf Marina Bey. Local customs and traditions in Singapore are still dominant there. 

Customs and celebrations:

Festival Dragon Boats

• If someone is invited to someone's home is required to remove your shoes as a sign of respect and should bring a gift who visits
• It is forbidden to chew gum nationwide
• No smoking in public areas
• Do not throw trash in the streets
• Do not spit in public
• No handshake greets but tilt (the slaaming)
• On Sunday morning behind the Palace Hotel meet people accompanied by colorful bird cages for coffee while listening to the birds sing

And Some Festivals Are:

Starting The New Year

• Independence Day Singapore : Singapore is expelled from Malaysia and became an independent republic on August 9, 1965 . This festival is accompanied by many cultural activities , shows and military marches , and where people are dressed with beautiful and colorful clothes usually national color is red and is held at the Marina Bay Bey.
• Chinese New Year : that is the most important holiday for Singaporeans specifically for the Chinese it is developed and celebrated in Chinatown which is characterized by the giant snake floating all over the place . It is celebrated on January 21 and February and coincides approximately with the beginning of the first lunar month .
• Singapore Art Festival : celebration that began in 1977 and promoted by the National Arts Council and is a festival that is held annually and aims to disseminate the various local art forms. 
• Festival Dragon Boats : Held on the fifth day of the fifth lunar month, and its name derives from the date of the lunar calendar. In this event remind Singaporeans QU YUAN Chinese poet who drowned. In his honor, organized boat races that recreate the look of a dragon (Long Shou)
• Hungry Ghost Festival : Held in late July and early August or so (depending on the Lunar calendar) and lasts a month. Taoist in origin and between acts that can be seen include outdoor tastings and some drama shows.
• Monkey God Anniversary : in late September, the sanctuary of the Monkey God (in seng poh road) organizes a procession in honor of this deity

Starting festival Dragon Boats

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Social Sciences and Education

The country with the best quality of education worldwide

Flag of singapore

Singapore is a parliamentary republic and is the fourth largest financial center in the world (has the fourth largest foreign exchange market in the world) and as confirmed by its GDP (one of the highest GDP per capita in the world) is one of the richest countries in the world and one of the countries with better quality of Education. In addition, the monetary fitness is linked to a rich multiracial culture.

Parliament is unicameral: The executive power is represented by the President (who is elected by parliament for a term of four years), but in practice the prime minister and his cabinet who govern. And the 81 members of parliament are elected for a term of five years

All citizens are obliged to attend state schools until the sixth Level of primary education when they have usually 12 years old and their academic levels are established by the Ministry of Education and the English language is the language used in their teaching.

• The life expectancy is 81 years old
• 92.5% of the population is literate
• Its ethnic diversity is: Chinese 76.8% - 13.9% Malaysians - Indians 7.9% - Other 1.4%
• The population is 5,353,494

Distribution by Age

• 0-14 years: 13.8% (male 338.419/mujeres 314 704)
• 15-64 years: 77% (male 1,874,985 1.774.444/mujeres)
• 65 years and over: 9.2% (male 196.101/mujeres 242 084)

Growth Rate 1,993%

Birth rate 7.72 births

Mortality rate 3.41 deaths

Net migration rate 15.62 migrant (s)

Singapore Dollar

Education system in Singapore

Is no stranger to the Singapore education system is of high quality and for that the Ministry of Education established a standard system of quality assessment. According to local officials and academics, Lee Kwan Yew (Founder of the country) had the vision to turn Singapore into a bilingual country with English speaking and all based on a meritocratic model which states that hierarchical positions are achieved by merit.

University Of Singapore

This has made their universities they graduate highly qualified and this is reflected in the high results achieved in international assessments. Should be noted that Singapore has an obsession for quality education, so much so that you can see on dollar bills from other countries that show images of Heroes of the past and the two-dollar bill shows a classroom with students listening to the teacher a university in the background and below you can read the word "education". Compulsory education starts in kindergarten at 4 to 6 years after six years of primary school from age 6 to age 12 and ends with four years of high school from 12 to 16.

All this is caused by the absence of natural resources so that the country should focus on developing their most important resource: the human resource. In Singapore, the government has established a Salarian range equal to an engineer for a teacher. Resulting teachers that applicants come from 30% of students with better performance. Below are the results from PISA

Math: 1st Shanghai , 2nd Singapore

NUS: National University Of Singapore

Science: 1st Shanghai, 2nd Finland, 3rd Hong Kong , 4th Singapore
Reading: 1st Shanghai, 2nd South Korea, 3er Findald, 4th Hong Kong, 5th Singapore

The Types of School In Singapore are:

• Government School
• Autonomous
• Private
• Homeschooling (Educate the Child At Home)

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Literature

The goal is to convert Singapore into a prestigious place in the publishing house of Asia

R. Ramachandran

Singapore has a president of the National Council of Singapore called R. Ramachandran that proposed like a objective Convert to Singapore into a prestigious place in the publishing house of Asia although this place has been discredited by the severe laws that exist there, government censorship on the press. Do not forget that Singapore has long been a major publishing center but R. Ramachandran claims that this is a "giant" and turn "literary art in an industry." In order to achieve this objective a financed by the government organization announced a series of initiatives which will expose the relaunch Literature Award in Singapore.

There have been conferences of Asian storytellers and writers and cartoonists conference Asian children. Singapore was host to the second World Summit for arts and culture, which amounted to 150 attendees representing 44 countries. 

Catherine Lim

Although it should be noted that Singapore has been characterized by its strict and harsh laws so they doubt whether the project it will work or not.

In Singapore there is a popular author of novels and short stories named Catherine Lim who has been reprimanded and has suffered the consequences of strict government for expressing their criticism of government policy through the media. According to Ramachandran, the Asian population spends about 233.5 million dollars a year to buy books for what is intended to encourage reading.

The famous author of books and Singaporean teacher named Kirpal Singh believes that most of writers could support the initiative because it is a good idea but expressed doubts about the commitment and intent of this issue as it believes that only thinks about the business side the matter and not taking into account the artistic values ​​that should be promoted.

There are 2 volumes of literature very famous in Singapore: Polite Fiction Novel of the famous writer Colin Cheong and collections of short stories of novice writers entitled Ceriph published by the editorial department "Books Actually" they have had problems with the laws of Singapore so they avoid post topics explicit political. But now Singapore has been more tolerant. This is how one of the poems of the writer called Somaiah has been famous for referring to the old reputation of Singapore as the "boring city known" by the harsh and excessive laws imposed government and people suffering reprisals for speaking in one way or another, and that they have suffered reprisals have been famous writers and novelists who have made reference to the strict laws and make political claims on their books.

In Singapore there are famous writers and novelists such as:

• Cyril Wong who was the firs collection of poems while still a student
• Alfian Bin Sa'at poet and playwright, who is known for his literary works very provocative
• Catherine Lim fiction Author and writer known fot writing abour Singapore society in general write and criticize the government in its books and media, protest have been punished by the government with severe fines.
• Su-Chen Christine Lim writer and playwright who was the first writerin Singapore to win the Singapore Literature Prize
• Hwee Hwee Tan who has won the Singapore Literature Prize and the National Arts Award from the National University of Singapore the New York Times Foundation And The British Broadcasting Corporation

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Art And Music

A Country that promotes Art And Music

According with their cultural diversity in Singapore (Previously considered a cultural desert) has a long tradition of cultivating and promoting Chinese Opera, a mix of music, dances, songs and dialogues. Singapore today experiences an artistic renovation, is also promoting culture from the legendary theatrical Ming Dynasty.

The Singaporeans have festivities of the respective religions who live in the country for this Singapore is very popular for its presentation of popular performances, above all in his Chinese New Year which exhibits the "lion dance" which is a singular show that combines acrobatics and develops during traditional Chinese festivals. Kampong Glam is a magnet for creative people because in that place exposed Restored Great Art Galleries.

The Kampong Glam

Singapore is in charge of cultivating their Malay and Hindu artistic traditions. One of the exponents of his art is the Opera Theatre Esplanade (Esplanade - Theatres on the Bay) that could be defined as the building up to the Sydney Opera House and is one of the icons of Singapore where you can hallucinate with Bollywood music in the streets of Little India. 



Singapore Also offers a variety of alternative works, ethnic music to children for what functions has invested more than 1,000 million dollars to make this place "The Flobal City Of Arts" so gradually disappears fame Boring. 

In Singapore exists a majestic building which has a concert hall with a capacity for 1,600 people and a theater with a capacity of 2,000 people, which was designed to resemble a durian (fruit)

The National Museum Of Singapore at Night

Singapore also has a lot of museums like:

• "The Museum of Asian Civilizations"
• "Changi Museum and Chapel"
• "Peranakan Museum"
• "Museum of Art and Science of Marina Bay Sands"
• And onde of the most Important Perhaps is the "National Museum of Singapore"

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Singapore

Starting to Know About "Singapore"

Officially the Republic of Singapore, a sovereign country in Southeast Asia between the Indian and Pacific oceans. Also known as the Asian lion, but is actually Tiger City because in singapore lions have never existed. Also called the country of the strict rules and laws, but thanks to that, is a neat and clean country.

Singapore the Asian Lion

 Founded in 1819 and covers an area of ​​714 km2 and Its population is 5.27 million people. Singapore is formed by sixty three islands, where their form of government is a parliamentary republic. The capital of Singapore is Singapore for that is considered a city-state, a place where there are no natural resources but human resources is abundant. 

Large and luxurious skyscrapers

A place of tall and modern skyscrapers and luxurious places where coexist  antiquity and modernity with singular cunning. Its territory is divided into five Community Development Councils and is considered the smallest country in Southeast Asia. Its national official languages ​​are Malay, English, Chinese and Tamil. Its type of currency is the Singapore dollar. Singapore is in the fourth place among 45 education systems in the world to rank among the top students in math and science and positioning it well at number one in quality of education. 

Example of ethnic diversity

It is the fourth largest financial center in the world and playing an important role in international trade and global economy as well as being the second highest population density in the world after Monaco. A tropical climate Place That Blanket a dense multicultural population and has a varied ethnic composition which decomposes in Chinese, Malays and Indians. Like its religious composition decomposes into Buddhist, Taoist, Muslim, Christian and Hindu. Singapore became obliged to travel site. A place where relaxation and business can be done together.








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