/ Posted on 31 May, 2021 13:12
With Singapore’s month-long Phase 2 Heightened Alert restrictions coinciding with the first two weeks of the June school holidays, which start today, the city-state’s most popular attractions are giving up hopes of welcoming increased visitorship from families with children.
The new measures require attractions to further reduce their operating capacity to 25 per cent – from 50 per cent previously– and limit group sizes to only two. Dining-in services at F&B venues are also suspended.
This rare white tiger, as well as many other residents of Wildlife Reserves Singapore parks, will have lonely days ahead as visitor capacity gets cut from 50 per cent to just 20 per cent from May 16 to June 13
Bak changs are one of the must-haves during the Dragon Boat Festival season, when the rice dumplings are enjoyed by Chinese families all over the world. With the festival just around the bend, here’s a list of where you can get your fix of this year’s most unique flavours, from the most creative to super quirky and unusual variants, to.
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Every year, the Dragon Boat Festival (also known as Duanwu Jie) falls on the fifth day of the fifth month of the lunar calendar. It’s all about commemorating the tragic death of Qu Yuan – a poet and court advisor during ancient China’s Warring States period.
ChangHoSek s Hokkien changs are generously filled with braised pork belly, salted egg yolk, premium dried scallops, shrimp and mushrooms. There are two options- with or without their signature abalone. (Photo: ChangHoSek)
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As storied histories go, he drowned himself in the river after his warning prediction that the kingdom of Chu would be invaded by the state of Qin rang true. Folklore has it that the local villagers tried to save him by banging on drums to sound the alarm, rowing their boats out to find him, and throwing rice dumplings into the water to deter any fish from eating his corpse.
May 19, 2021
The Fullerton Hotel Singapore
The Dragon Boat Festival commemorates the life and death of famed Chinese scholar Qu Yuan who lived in the Chu kingdom of third century BCE. The story goes that he was essentially too smart for his own good, so court officials framed him for conspiracy which led to his exile.
While in exile, Qu Yan drowned his anger in writing poems and eventually himself in the Miluo River by attaching a stone to his chest. The people of Chu, who never doubted him, quickly launched a rescue mission, jumping into boats to search for him. He was, however, never to be found.