1 . The Best Hawker(沿街叫卖者)Centers in Singapore

Chinatown Complex Food Center

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.

Old Airport Road Food Center

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. Absolutely, 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 beancurd is offered at $ 1.50 per bowl for original favor and $2.00 per bowl for almond favor.

Tiong Bahru Market Hawker Center

A clean and spacious hawker center: Decorated recently, this center is one of the cleanest and most spacious hawker centers in Singapore. You will definitely enjoy the airy, comfortable and relaxing 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 enjoy mouth-watering Singaporean foods and experience the original feature of a typical Singapore wet market during your visit.

Chomp Chomp Food Center

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(圣地).

6 . With so many NYC museums to choose from, it’s hard to begin. The good news is, you’re in the right place. Below is a highly selective list of museums in New York City.

Occupying two million square feet, with a permanent collection of over two million works of art, the Metropolitan Museum of Art (founded in 1870) is one the largest galleries in the world. This famous fine arts museum in NYC possesses works from classical antiquity (古物), ancient Egypt, Asia, Byzantium, and Europe, with nearly all of the European masters represented.

Originally founded in 1869, the American Museum of Natural History is one of the largest museums in the world. Located in park-like grounds across the street from Central Park, the museum complex consists of 28 interconnected buildings housing 45 permanent exhibition halls. As a popular family-friendly NYC attraction, the American Museum of Natural History is as fun as it is educational.

One of the mid-twentieth century’s most important architectural landmarks, the iconic Solomon R. Museum was designed by Frank Lloyd Wright. Wright spent 15 years designing the building and gave up 700 sketches and six sets of working drawings in the process. He died six months before the doors were opened.

The New York City Fire Museum (set up in 1934) is a charming alternative to the more expensive museums of New York. Here you will find art and artifacts that celebrate the history of firefighting and the New York City Fire Department, including modern-day firefighting equipment and real New York fire equipment from 1790.

9 . My motivation for starting our family tradition of reading in the car was purely selfish: I could not bear listening to A Sesame Street Christmas for another 10 hours. My three children had been addicted to this cassette on our previous summer’s road trip.

As I began to prepare for our next 500-mile car trip, I came across a book — Jim Trelease’s The Read Aloud Handbook. This could be the answer to my problem, I thought. So I put Roald Dahl’s James and the Giant Peach into my bag. When I began to read aloud the tale of the boy who escapes the bad guys by hiding inside a giant peach, my three kids argued and wrestled in their seats. But after several lines, they were attracted into the rhythm of the words and began to listen.

We soon learned that the simple pleasure of listening to a well-written book makes the long miles pass more quickly. Sometimes the books we read became highlights of the trip. I read Wilson Rawls’s Summer of the Monkeys as we spent two days driving to the beach. We arrived just behind the power crews restoring (恢复) electricity after a tropical storm. The rain continued most of the week, and the beach was covered with oil washed up by the storm. When we returned home, I asked my son what he liked about the trip. He answered without hesitation, “The book you read in the car.”

Road trips still offer challenges, even though my children now are teenagers. But we continue to read as we roll across the country. And I’m beginning to see that reading aloud has done more than help pass the time. For at least a little while, we are not shut in our own electronic worlds. And maybe we’ve started something that will pass on to the next generation.

10 . Zambia is home to some of the most extraordinary wildlife. Several years ago, I decided to go there for a visit. A local person offered to be my guide, which was a great ________ for me.

One day, my guide turned off the smooth road and took me across a ________ hillside instead. We picked our way carefully when ________, a Rafflesia (大王花) popped into my view among those stones. Oh, dear! More than ________, I bent down and put my nose practically inside the flower’s core.

Nevertheless, to my surprise, it was only one of the ________ during the trip.

As I ________ the end of my trip, there was still something I had yet to see. We planned to hunt for most feared creature there, the saltwater crocodile, which can grow to a length of 6 meters or more. ________ we shone a flashlight towards the muddy shore, little sounds ________ in the darkness as if something unseen underwater had broken the ________. Taking a second look, we spotted two greedy eyes just ________ the water line. As we drew near, it moved and we saw clearly it was a crocodile. With great caution, we neared it and finally could ________ its true dimensions. It was a baby — no more than 0.6 meter long. Aha, whatever, I could now report to the ________ back home, who had never been to Zambia, that I had ________ a hungry crocodile in the wild and lived to tell the tale.

The world out there is so ________. Don’t let work ________ your life. Why not step outdoors and enjoy the wonders nature offers to you?