Singapore's Little India

Our third full day in Singapore, January 23rd, we did the Little India walking tour. It was not quite as striking as the Chinatown tour, because, in part, the Indian community is not nearly so large nor important as the Chinese community here. (Also it's not New Year for Indians). Nonetheless, it was enlightening for us since Little India is mostly southern Indian, culturally, and our previous experience in India, in 2008, was entirely in the north. (See the eight posts I did in November, 2008, including one of my favorites, https://roadeveron.blogspot.com/2008/11/conversion-at-pushkar-lake.html).

So, I quickly discerned (click to enlarge and read), Little India is not a big-time
fun place to be, especially on the weekends; it all relates to riots that occurred
here, decades ago, which the Singapore government decided were alcohol-related;
thus, the ban here, but not in very many other Singapore precincts

Actually, much of our tour time was spent in or about this southern Indian temple

Rare dorsal view of lion

Inside the temple

St. Jerome? His attribute, right? Note priest in background

Stomping on a bad guy; do not try this at home...

Note five-headed god/goddess

Stuff of nightmares...or possibly a Hindu Pieta?

Nice mural nearby, probably highly meaningful, but totally lost on me; I do regret
bringing so little understanding to all this...

We had a tasting at this place; neither Vicki nor I now remember what it was
other than maybe some sort of fry-bread concoction; I do vividly remember that
they had Kingfisher beer, which is among my favorite memories of India

Street scene with shop-houses

Random shop

Oldest residence in Little India

Us, there

Next, in a humongous market/food hall

Seafood district

Garment district

Just like everywhere else, people mostly sit around looking at Facebook

Among the many residential high-rises

Street scene, Little India