Singapore Shopping: Orchard Shopping Malls

Heading the list of shopping malls in Singapore are the Orchard road centric places such as:

• Ngee Ann City/Takashimaya Shopping Centre - brand names like Chanel, Coach and Tiffany & Co.
• Centrepoint Shopping Centre
• Lucky Plaza - not so glitzy but you can get some great bargains here in electronics, shoes and clothes.
• Far East Plaza - popular with fashion conscious youngsters who like street fashion and tattoos.
• Tang’s Plaza - A historic store that you must visit in Orchard Road is the . It epitomizes true rags to riches tale and today is at par with any international store.
• Great World City Mall - a stand-alone, quieter mall, with mega stores like Barang Barang and Best Denki under its roof not far from the Orchard shopping belt.

The Palais Renaissance mall at Orchard Road is a venue for indulgent decadence with its famous stores like Prada, DNKY, besides the Mumbai Se store which retails top notch Indian fashion labels.

Designer American brands can be found at Paragon, Wisma Atria and Plaza Singapura which also anchors the Carrefour Department Store.

Isetan at the Shaw House is another place for food, specially Japanese cuisine items, and fashion.

Other popular shopping jaunts for the hoi polloi are the older malls in Orchard as they have more reasonable range of goods.

For example the Specialists Shopping center houses the reasonable retail store - John Little. The Forum Mall (Orchard) is a kid’s dream store as it houses the immensely popular Toys R Us store.

For music look no further than Pacific Plaza which has Tower Records and the Heeren, also on Orchard which has the HMV store. A good place for affordable fashion and fashionable dining is the renovated Parco Bugis Junction which has become popular with the younger generation.

Other top end malls to visit in Singapore are the Suntec City Mall, Harbour Front Mall, Raffles City Shopping Centre, the Marina Square and the Millenia Walk. Millennia Walk’s famous stores include Fendi and Liz Claiborne. The Park Mall and The Furniture Mall offer great design ranges for your home.