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>> singapore, one could be forgiven for thinking it's a giant ultramodern shopping mall. the interconnected flf wired air-conditioned nanny state where everything is beautiful, and nothing hurts. and those things are kind of true. especially if you read the papers or the carefully monitored internet. you look around the litterless streets where everything seems to work just fine, just fine. and you think -- or you could forgiven for thinking gee maybe a one-party system is just what we need. you look at all the social

problems and ethnic strive, street crime, drugs that singapore has managed to avoid and you could think, is this the life we want? it ain't my system. it's not the world i want. but, damn, it has its appeal. >> hi this is singapore. >> jam packed in between the carefully architecture yur abthe sky scrapers and office blocks are rich deep very old and deliciously funky remnants of the old world. chinese, indian, may lay and the culture that still cheeritious the good thing. >> what's your favorite. >> my favorite is in may lay. >> that's your favorite what's

your favorite chinese. >> sometimes chicken rice of course. how about favorite indian dish. >> definitely, the biani rice. >> that's the best lock size. funny i recognize every place here by food. how are you what blow yous back to singapore. >> i come here to eat. >> i live here to eat too. >> i come here mostly to eat. because that's what they do here. and they arguably do it better with more diverse afraidable food options per square foot than just about anywhere on earth. my god father and mentor for

singapore and street food has always been kf seetoh. the behind the food guides and the advocate for the democratic affordable chaos of the hawker world. >> thank you. >> thank you. >> thank you. okay so wet and dry. >> wet and dry. the heat gets to you a bit. >> the whampoa prawn noodles seemed a good place to start. >> we are here because she is one of the new heroes, the new generation heroes that's out to protect and preserve our food culture. you know i've been talking about continuity for the longest time. >> i know you want to see traditional recipes and preparations preserved. >> i'm here to preserve what's traditional, what's progressive progressive heritage food has a space. but if you are too creative with

stuff you put in truffles. >> that's wrong always. >> creativity is not a flavor, tony. >> most hawker stalls are family-run operations and whampoa is no exception. what's unusual is that we at a she left her white collar job to work alongside parents, bucking a trend that left the hawker center was aging workforce. unable to replenish generations of expertise with new blood. >> if you look around tony, look at at hawkers 70%, 80% are 50 and above. the tipping points will come when everybody gives up the stall. the children go to university, be a doctor, lawyer, be something else other than a hawker >> but the singaporean government wants to build more stalls, better, modern. >> 20 more hawker centers. >> 20 more abcer centers.

>> where the hell are they coming from. >> that's a good question. >> there is no true answer. >> the answer is not from singapore. they have come from china. >> for the 15,000 or 20,000 food skauls we have in singapore if it's public run like this, you can't hire foreigners. it's meant for singaporeans. >> isn't the beginning of all this was people from china, india. >> naes why i keep saying our food came from the rest of the world. >> somewhere. >> we had nothing. and in that tradition i say we must continue. >> up for rent cooked food stall. we should do a pop-up. get my apron. >> stanford raffles arrived in singapore in 1819 with the british east india company. establishing it first as a trading post for the british

empire. soon there after singapore grew. quickly becoming an economic hub and regional capital for the british colony on the malay peninsula. after world war ii singer clamored for independence first a part of the malz yan frgs than an independent state in 1965. tiny singapore famously went from a third world outpost to a first world nation in a single generation. >> in singapore. >> yeah. >> rules and regulations in singapore is very strict. we have to follow them. i'm a taxi. i can't break any law >> camera catches. >> you everything in camera. we have to follow the rules and

regulations. that's why singapore is very good. same time everybody in singapore is hard working. we need food to eat clothes to wear, place to live. we have to continue. once laez, we out. >> by some measure singapore is a welfare state taking care of less fortunate but at its heart it's the cold blooded merit tok raycy you follow rules work hard and have a good life. that's the message. >> we are starting to define the definition before we are clear with the five cs, car, conminimum yum being credit card, cash, career. >> that sounds awful. >> i mean. >> i grew up in that idea. >> that's not good. >> that's kind of depressing.

>> that's the past. >> the muslim quarter just following afternoon prayers. i'm here with najip au, the singapore producer and entertainer. >> yeah, okay. >> looking good. >> this is it. >> this is. >> longtong. >> this is. >> we are having longtong rice cake coconut gravy vegetables and hard boiled egg. and fried rice noodles with chili paste, fried bean kurd and an egg. >> delicious. i mean we like to make fun of singapore in the west call it disneyland with the death penalty and we are skeptical of one-party rule, skeptical on constraints on freedom of the

press or the things you can't do. >> yeah you can't do. >> do you think that young creative singaporeans feel those constraints and suffer from them? >> i think some of them who travel knows better. most of them are overeducated and under exposed meaning little experience in what they know. we are looking for. they are looking for things to do. the problem with in is we live in the small country and we have no where to go and where do we experience. if you live in new york you don't like the city. >> you say shiite. >> i think we have two you go to minnesota, texas. you take time to think about it. even in malaysia when you are in kuala lumpur. we have no where to go. >> not only is singapore a small city state, a little more than half the size of l.a., but there is also a pressure of a kind from a big brother government

who is always watching. however benevolently one might think. >> every day as an entertainer as a producer director we are reminded what not to do. don't insult races or religion. i think as a entertainer we always trying to work out. we that's the challenging. most of the think i do on television is undercutting. >> biting the hand that feeds you. >> but our job is basically as entertainer here to purely entertain. and we know the line that we can't cross. religion, our ancestors, parents, things like that. you can't make fun of parents in comedy. >>f your own parent it's okay. >> every family. >> you can give a twist to a story of a ner in law. >> mother-in-law is okay. >> mother-in-law okay.

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♪ so on the basic level singapore works in so many ways, security, family, education. >> housing. >> housing. so in a way you are numbed into thinking everything is wonderful. and then you start to wonder after a while, is there another way of life? i think that's the big kind of singapore. >> is there angst?

>> yeah there is. >> but i think there is no outlet for it. so everybody is you know going online, and like to be aanonymous about it. >> even online they have paid the price. people have been let go of jobs. and that's the price that we have to pay. >> the price may seem pretty high by american standards. no political dissent, no right to assembly, a restricted press and limited freedom of speech. sudhir vad a death all navigating the rules and regs spoken and unspoken that go with prosperity, safety. lower 29 for fried aceter omeletless being fish ball noodle soup and beef saute. >> one of the issues we are a victim of success in many

whiches. we have grown so fast. i guess expectations among the liberals and progressives have just gone so far ahead, including myself, that sometimes we -- we need a reality check about what so i think the best intention, the economic growth has happened so quickly and sometime social morals and customs may take a bit more time. >> you know a place where everything works this well, in a system so seemingly different than the one we are taught to venerate -- that is genuinely confusing. so what is the best thing about singapore and what is the worst thing about singapore? >> i think the best thing is tolerance and efficiency. but you know if you just look around us right now you know there is like a mosque over there, there is a buddhist temple over there, there are a

bunch of brothels walking the street legally regulated by the government. and everybody has kind of accepted this quid pro quo situation and it somehow works. >> you were shaking your head about something. >> i agree, about the feeling of security, i think that is priceless. you know, i will do what i have to do to be able to afford to live here, i'll work hard, i'll tolerate, and even it's not that bad when it comes to me voicing certain things which maybe the government doesn't agree with, i feel i have outlets that don't have to be public, right? and i'm okay with that. >> you talk about feeling safe. >> yes, security. >> do you feel respected? >> definitely. i do. >> do you feel that there is parity for women and you are

paid and treated as well as men? >> yes, i think so. >> you know, i think that is because of maids -- i think you will find actually if you look at singapore, a lot of women are in the work force and the reason why that is so is because everybody has a maid, looking after their child at home. so maids are kind of like the opiate of the masses. >> but that makes you slothful -- but if you have a maid you're saying it frees you up to join the work force. >> my husband doesn't know how to serve himself water. >> laundry? does he do laundry? >> no. >> really? >> no. >> does anyone here know how to do laundry? >> in theory. we haven't done it. >> because two years of military service, but the girls are

pampered. and when is the last time you did laundry -- >> four days ago. >> four days ago? >> yeah. >> you sent it to the butler? >> no, i do it by myself in new york. i have to tell you maybe it's a sickness or a weird thing, i enjoy throwing my clothes into the washer and then moving them to the dryer. it's a process that makes me feel very satisfied with myself. >> therapeutic. >> i feel very se-relnt. you know, listeni to you people i got to tell you, i want to go out and join the communist party. you're living off the labor of the oppressed under class, i'm going to start my own cell. ♪ ♪ in a state where an ounce of

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to many, singapore is the land of opportunity. people from all over the world come here to get a good job, to find a better life. >> and you notice chinese -- we have been discriminated in laos, thailand, indonesia, australia. suddenly you got the guy -- there is nowhere else in the chinese world that has a big of a leader. >> much of singapore's success is often credited to its first prime minister. a person from china, considered the founding father of modern singapore. reigning pretty much unopposed for 30 years he is responsible for much of the social engineering that holds singapore

together as well as the favorable economic policies that have allowed it to thrive. he arrived in singapore to take advantage of its business climate becoming an early pioneer of singapore's now-famous night life. back now in the very beginning was it a favorable climate in the sense that did they look upon your early efforts generously or kindly or were they -- i'm not so sure about this guy? >> no, no, singapore is fantastic. >> what time to bars close? >> 2:00 a.m., that is with the opportunity, you cannot run an economy -- you have to write law, the right safety, everything was right. but the social part was not right. 2:00 a.m., you're managing a teenager, 2:00, guys go to bed. >> when did it change and why? >> i started my bars and restaurants in 1999.

and you a and the promise of singapore at that time, what is singapore doing? ten, 20, 30, 50, this was before this. i suggested partying all night type of thing. >> welcome to singapore. come and diana pierne with us. >> i'm not very smart so the only way me through university was through a lot of parties. now i'm paid to do it, which is even better. your social security number on any one of thousands of risky sites, so you'll be in the know. ooh. sushi. ugh. being in the know is a good thing. sign up online for free. discover social security alerts.

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singapore has fully embraced globalization, and that proved in their case very rewarding. >> singapore is so attractive to foreign entrepreneurs. primarily in the form of multinational corporations, the strategy was always to attract foreign capital. >> donald lo is an economist who spent years reading and writing about the financial policies. >> you know, this is almost contrary to the founder's original expectations. this was the pragmatic streak, understanding that free trade is good for everybody. this place, another 50 years,

it's deeply imprinted. singapore, it's remarkable how diverse singapore still is. >> we're now living in a time where globalism and globalization are bad words. you see a rise of populism, nationalism. >> which is why this is the main beneficiary of globalization, as the world turns and countries in europe and the u.s. becomes more concerned about protecting their own order, literally in the case of the u.s. there is a high probability that singapore will not thrive in such a world. >> a lot of social engineering

has been superimposed to hold that together and i think what a lot of personer e westerners wh singapore come here skeptical are often reluctantly holed into the inescapable conclusion that it seems to work. >> it seems to work, but of course the post-singapore government has often been accused of being extremely keen and competent. the most powerful engineering is public housing, it urges the people in singapore to live in this inform housing. but has some benefits. >> there is inversal health cei little to no homelessness in singapore, they provide people with affordable homes with 90%

of the population owning their own home. >> people of singapore will be hard pressed to find a neighborhood that is a slum, or hard pressed to find people who live in the relatively deprived conditions, even though income inequality is high you don't see it in the publicing house estates. there is a picture of general equality equality. >> by ensuring it's citizens are safe, housed and healthy, and for the most part healthy, they have kept the masses happy, willing to accept curbs on their freedoms and civil liberties. >> do you think that the singapore success story is a

rebuke to the western values? >> no, no, i don't think it is here, because of the absence of free speech. the values of free trade, the values of a liberal global order these are western ideas, right? singapore did not invent them. asia did not invent them. >> it has not really worked like this anywhere else. and yet it works. >> well, i think my objection or my discomfort with the lack of democratic freedoms is that i think we can allow a lot more without hurting singapore's prosperity and stability one ounce. what will we lose if we had a free press, or had more democratic or opposition representation? just a more livelier debate, a better debate. we may well arrive at the conclusion that the current dispensation of order makes up

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independence independence. >> so this is a dish that you probably will find. it's sour, sweet because of the pine apple, and savory, as well. >> sour fish curry with pineapple. so really we're talking about sort of a -- i hate the word "fusion," but -- >> it's indigenous fusion, it has become a heritage on its own, a cuisine on its own, there is nothing like this anywhere in the world. >> thank you. >> good stuff. >> braised duck. >> duck braised with tamarand and coriander, and okra sauteed.

who is cooking now, has it changed? >> everybody wants to create a very good cuisine, and they want to do it in a way where they don't put too much effort in it. you work in the kitchen, 12, 1415 hours a day you know, and most of them don't want to do that. so it happens that -- they want to work in a french restaurant, they want to work in an italian restaurant, why? because they get more money, okay? >> okay. i think it's attack actical mis, because i flew half way around the world and i'm not going to eat french or japanese food. >> you know what, you shouldn't. you talk about the cuisine, there are people that cook it today, they are 100 paranakans,

maybe one. >> so basically you're talking about the dinosaurs? >> yes, this no longer exists. it's gone. >> one of the things i admire about singapore and the food culture is that people are very passi passionate and value a french or italian meal as much as they enjoy a really good chicken or rice, they're just not willing to pay for it. >> exactly, that's the public, it doesn't make sense, because we're a bustling country, how can food be so cheap? it's insane. >> i have the solution. it's an ugly solution, a terrible solution but it will probably be the only salvation. it's the hipster solution. it's hipsters that will save the

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>> meet choi, colion, and sons. the family at the much-loved eating house are in the village neighborhood. >> your parents met in the restaurant business? >> yes, we only knew about this story when we get older and the media started to interview them. saying oh, that is how they know each other. my parents. they never talked about how they met. >> in the beginning, when they were working at your mother's parents' restaurant, and then in the beginning of their eating house, how many hours a day did they work? and how many days a week? how many days vacation? >> 12 hours per day. and then he gets one day off every two weeks. >> that's hard.

>> thank you. >> that's fantastic. wow, that's good. choi has been making this dish for decades, pig's feet cooked slowly in black vinegar, dried chilies. this is the family favorite, cabbage and glass noodles stir fried with black bean and shrimp. now, i've been speaking to a lot of people who talk about how singapore loves the culture, loves its food. but the general story is the first variation starts, they get successful, send the kids to school. they tell them i did not work

hard so you could go in the restaurant business. >> my dad and mom said the same thing, like don't come into the business. >> get a 9 to 5 job. stay in an air conditioned building. >> many of the people i speak to are very sad that these original recipes and preparations are disappearing. you know, other than this wonderful family, who do your parents think will keep these traditions alive? >> now that the government encourages a lot of young people to preserve our traditions, i think we should hope that ten years down the road maybe more people like us in their generation will take over the business. >> the oldest daughter is 14, she helps out in the shop on the weekends, so to let her understand it's not easy to -- >> but would you like your child to stay in the restaurant business? >> yeah, so -- if they are very

interested i would say why not? >> you would say yes? >> yeah. >> this is so good, by the way, it's delicious. >> now, singapore is a rich country, lot of rich people live here. why can't you charge as much money for this traditional food as the french charge for french food? why do you this i? why wouldn't the people of singapore play? >> actually just a couple of months ago we had one situation almost 20 years ago, selling their rice at three dollars a pack. right now we're selling it four dollars. >> 20 years later. >> yeah, one dollar more. >> why? people of singapore love food. >> i think there is a difference between us, he doesn't want to increase the price. >> you know your regular customers, you have a lot of regulars. >> a lot of them see us growing

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♪ ♪ ♪ singapore is a multi-national society, we have many in singapore. >> it seems to work. >> it works, yeah. >> ♪ ♪

♪ ♪ ♪ one last trip straight back to where it all started. a simple good thing. in this case, one of my favorite things things. >> here it is. ordinarily this is a breakfast, i eat it every time i'm in singapore. it's just about the most unhealthy breakfast you can have. it's literally like -- lard. crispy lard bits. healthy cockles, shrimp paste

and a whole lot of noodles. very fattening. originally created to feed laborers. so it ain't pretty. not the healthiest of breakfasts, but delicious. if you're looking to fit into that speedo, this would not be option one. oh, man, problem is you eat this surrounded by all of these sort of wonders of asia in the food court here, after this you're kind of done. i don't have any words after this, frankly. once in a while you hit a little piece of crispy pork fat. well, my work is done here today. ♪ ♪

>> singapore? >> yeah. >> everything is perfect here. this is one of the safest countries in the world. we are gifted to be in singapore. we show a good example to the world.

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