Imagine a Singapore where people celebrate Chinese New Year with chocolate chip cookies instead of pineapple tarts. Where the first thing you tuck into after returning from a trip abroad is a fast-food chain meal, not bak chor mee or prata. Where there is no kopi or teh, no -c or siew dai. Only espressos and lattes.
Imagine a Singapore devoid of hawker centres.
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