The Best Hawker（叫卖小贩）Centers in Singapore

You can find all the must-try local foods here: Being the largest hawker center in Singapore with over 260 food stands, this center offers a full range of local dishes from chilli crab, black pepper crab to local juice and popular desserts.

Foods are offered at the cheapest prices: Food prices here are very reasonable and competitive. Diners can enjoy a plate of chicken rice or a bowl of laksa at prices from $2.50 to $3.00.

Singapore iconic hawker center: One of the oldest and largest food courts in the island city, serves authentic delicious local food to many generations of Singaporeans. You will find all the popular Singaporean dishes there.

Offering the best soya beancurd in Singapore: It is home to some of the best soya beancurd stands. The soya beancurd is offered at $1.50 per bowl for original flavour and $2.00 per bowl for almond flavour.

A clean and spacious hawker center: Decorated recently, this center is now one of the cleanest and most spacious hawker centers in Singapore. You will definitely enjoy the comfortable and relaxıng atmosphere there.

Located right above one of the best wet markets in Singapore: The center is on the second floor. On the first floor is a famous wet market with fresh produce. Therefore you can at once enjoy mouth-watering Singaporean foods and experience the original feature of a typical Singapore wet market during your visit.

A hawker center catering for late night diners- Unlike other food centers opening from morning to evening, this center starts from 18:00 until late every day. So if you want to have good hawker food at late hours, come here.

Serving some of the best satay in Singapore: To many Singaporean foodies, Chomp Chomp Food Center is a satay mecca. Pork, beef, chicken and mutton satay are all available.

When I was so small that my head barely touched the windowsill, we lived in the ever-green forests of Vermont. Our home was far, far away from any town or city, but that was the way we liked it.

Some winters, it got so cold that the river would freeze, which was unusual for water like that, water which ran so fast and deep. It felt as though time had stopped near the river, and so it had decided to become solid, settling in to wait for spring. We liked to skate on that river, my grandfather and I, even though the ice was uneven and his brown leather skates was so old.

One night, in the most frigid winter my young mind could recall, long after I should have been asleep, I caught my grandfather sneaking out of the front door, his ancient leather skates in his hands. He looked sheepish when he saw me, like I had caught him doing something silly, but I was so young that I thought no adult could ever do wrong. Especially not my grandfather, because he was the model of wisdom in my eyes.

“Grandpa, where are you going?” I asked.

“Skating on the river.”

“Why would you go out now? We did that yesterday morning.”

He looked a little thoughtful, and then he said: “It’s just that when you go out there, on the coldest, stillest night of the year, and you lie on your back on the thick, bubbled river ice, you can hear them.”

“Hear who?”

“The fish. Trapped there under the ice. You can hear them singing their water y winter song. And if you hold your breath, you can almost hear the stars singing in harmony.”

On December 16, 2023, the first section of Maya Train officially opened, which runs between Campeche and Cancún, carrying up to 231 passengers across 290 miles and stopping at 14 train stations.

Built as an ambitious effort to promote tourism and boost Mexico’s economy, the rail system connects the major cities and tourist regions of the Yucatán Peninsula —from Cancún’s beaches to Tulum’s archaeological wonders. Once the project is completed, the entire rail system will link tourist destinations across five states. However, environmentalists and archaeologists argue that the train route will cause great damage to the environment-and ancient Mayan sites.

The Maya Train passes through six UNESCO World Heritage sites and thousands of archaeological sites. One particular area of concern is the Calakmul biosphere reserve, which is home to many endangered species, such as jaguars and over 500 other animal species. The train lines, more than 60 meters wide, could act as artificial barriers that may limit the movement of these animals within the reserve making it difficult for them to move around and access food and water sources.

Opponents also express safety concerns. Certain sections of the rail system will be built right on top of the aquifer’s(含水层的) most fragile points of contact with the surface. “It’s like wanting to build over eggshells,” says Guillermo Christy, a water treatment consultant. “Putting trains weighing thousands of tons on top could cause the underground caves to crash down.” To construct the train infrastructure also requires driving long piles deep into the ground, which poses a big threat to this fragile ecosystem and leads to water shortages.

In the ongoing debate of Maya Train, it is crucial to consider the delicate balance between economic development and environmental preservation. While Maya Train may provide economic benefits, we must not overlook the potential environmental and cultural losses, as well as the safety risks it may bring. Achieving harmony between progress and conservation may be a significant challenge for the project, but we must take into account the long-term consequences of our actions.

Power often boosts an employee’s creativity because being powerful liberates the individual from restrictions. However, new research shows that employees who are not in positions of power can become more creative when given time to “warm up” to a task by engaging in the creative task more than once.

“This is important because when people with more power are able to express their creative ideas more than those with less power, which leads to a rich-get-richer dynamic that strengthens these power imbalances.” said Brian Lucas, assistant professor in the Cornell University. “Understanding ways to boost the creativity of lower power workers can help them find the right way to deal with this low-power disadvantage,” Lucas said.

Lucas and his colleagues conducted two studies to reach their conclusion. In the first study, they divided the creative idea generation session into two rounds consisting of a one-minute “warm up” followed by a second round in which the participants could take as long as they wanted. Participants were randomly assigned to a high-power condition or a low-power condition, and feelings of power were generated with a role manipulation (操纵) where participants were given a leadership role and control over resources (high power) or an employee role with no control over resources (low power). The study found that high-power individuals were more creative than low-power individuals in the warm-up round. There was no difference, though, in creativity in the second round.

In the second study, the researchers gave them a different creative task and increased the number of rounds from two sessions to five, taking as long as they like to complete the task. Similar to the first study, the study found that high-power individuals were more creative than low-power individuals in the first round. But the creativity of low-power individuals caught up to the creativity of the high-power individuals after the first round.

“The low-power warm-up effect suggests a simple intervention that empowers all employees to tap their creative potential and overcomes power imbalances in the workplace: when pursuing creative work. let employees warm up first,” Lucas said.

It was a winter afternoon when I tripped over a high kerb(马路牙子). Suddenly, I was flying through the air. It was only the next morning when I tried to take a photo of some splendid sunlight ________ into my kitchen, that I had to face the reality: I could no longer lift my camera, let alone use it. Later, a hospital appointment ________ my worst fear —the arm needed total rest.

Soon I became impatient. I couldn’t travel much. Surfing online, I ________ the concept of gratitude intervention, a method to boost ________ and well-being by being grateful. I had never been wildly ________ about the concept of counting one’s blessings. However, a Californian psychologist, Sonja Lyubomirsky, has ________ research into something much more creative — using a daily photography ________ as a tool for enhanced gratitude.

Lyubomirsky’s instructions are ________, but not necessarily easy to carry out. Take. photographs throughout the day of things central to who you are. Reading how participants assigned to the gratitude interventions ________ experienced enhanced positive emotions, a sense of connectedness, more support, and less ________, I decided to carry on.

Taking a single photo was painful, but the ________ to find anything to feel grateful about, and then to record it, started to greatly ________ both my mood and my images. I began to photograph the ________ of my days. Despite everything, I found I could find magic in the daily routines. Life seems repetitive and ________ when you don’t notice the ________ of each moment and the constant small changes that are going on all around you. Don’t just take my word for it —experience it for yourself.

During the Middle Ages, the purpose of Western art was     39     (teach) people about religion. Works     40     (paint) on this period were often primitive and two-dimensional. This     41     (begin) to change in the 13^th century with Giotto di Bondone (1267-1337) . While his paintings still had     42     (religion) themes, they showed real people. In particular, his paintings are set apart from other paintings by their realistic human faces and deep emotional impact.

Many of us try to change bad habits quickly, and if we are not successful straight away, we often become pessimistic and give up. In fact, the most successful way to change is not     43     （sudden）, but over a period of time.     44     the Chinese philosopher Lao Zi wrote, “A journey of a thousand miles begin with a single step.” One step seems small, but it is essential. To reach     45     goal of change, a person must show some discipline and repeatedly take many small steps. After all, it is not easy to break bad habits.