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Chicken rice isn't unique to Singapore though. It's pretty much the same in Malaysia and the Thai version is quite close as well.

Katong laksa on the other hand (which is in the article) is probably the famous hawker dish that is most uniquely Singapore.

Incidentally, the Katong laksa at Cassia in Santa Monica is probably as close to the real deal as you can get outside of Asia. But be prepared for sticker shock.

Agreed, Viet food is lacking in SG. For various reasons it hasn't caught on with the locals. Still, the average quality level of those Viet places that do exist is higher than that in the US.

As for hawker food, the increasing cost of doing business in SG means that hawkers use cheaper ingredients and give you less meat/fish. For dishes of Malaysian origin, Penang is the place to go for the best of the best. Even many Singaporeans will admit this.

I'd go with Bangkok as my personal #1 food city in Asia, but Viet cuisine is lacking there is well. So maybe Saigon?

This is the way to do it. Then make the ask for a referral, interview, etc. at the end. It usually works, I've gotten a good job doing this.

I'm not inherently opposed to referring people I don't know, as long as we have some sort of connection. The referral bonus at my company is pretty nice, after all.

So what I do is ask for a CV and cover letter; if they're good I can upload all the documents straight into the HR system and save the candidate the trouble.

In my experience, only a small minority of the cold outreach people actually respond to my request, and the responses I do get are usually low quality and don't merit a referral.

Depends on if your area has a strong pub culture. Not the case everywhere.

Keep in mind that Singapore is a police state where homosexuality is illegal and HIV positive foreigners are subject to immediate deportation.

FWIW, my company is highly ranked on Glassdoor and they applied the opposite of pressure to leave a review - in fact they said to please wait a few months post-onboarding before reviewing so that reviews were substantive rather than honeymoon period stuff.

William Gibson's Blue Ant trilogy was set in the present day and has no fantastical technology. (He did predict YouTube a couple years ahead of time, though, and got the cultural impact almost exactly right.)

To quote MST3K...

Can't we just get beyond Thunderdome?

What did your parents use to get your passport in the first place? Did they get a Report of Birth Abroad at the embassy? If so you can use that. There's also a process to apply for a citizenship certificate from USCIS, but you will probably want a lawyer for that.

If you are a typical American you are likely to be interacting exclusively with the upper class. Even if they don't feel upper class to you, by local standards they are at worst upper middle class.

It's not - one of the first things Giuliani did in NYC was get rid of the squeegee men, and other cities followed suit.

Not as true as it used to be. In my experience any midwestern city over 100,000 in population will have an Asian grocery store, and it's often got the best fresh produce in town.

I'm sure I'm not the only one to get a warning from Github about this..

Even the jQuery CDN is down intermittently for us here in Chicago. Sometimes CSS for core apps like Calendar is not loading, either. Definitely something amiss.

For sure. I think cost of living is a big differentiator. As for weather, let people work remote from the West Coast in the winter ;)

Great article! Talent is definitely a big challenge in building out startups here in Chicago.