Bag-A-Buy: Festive goodies from Chinatown

Take a jaunt around Chinatown this month to stock up for this Chinese New Year's needs. ST PHOTO: LIM YAOHUI
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SINGAPORE - Take a jaunt around a favourite Chinese New Year haunt - Chinatown - this month. The pandemic has dampened the atmosphere of yesteryear when street markets would be packed cheek by jowl with shoppers. But Chinatown is still a great destination for the season's needs. Here are some places where you can stock up for the holiday.

Mei's Store is the hipper offspring of the 75-year-old Ming Tai Medical and Trading, which has two other shopfronts along Block 34.

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