Before you shop till you drop, fuel up with a snack from one of the many shops selling local treats and fruit juices. Or rest your weary feet at the outlets offering beauty services like manicures and pedicures, hair extensions and the like – at reasonable rates.

Bugis Street underwent another facelift last year, to add additional retail space to the already successful shopping location. Referencing Singapore’s nickname, the new area is called the Little Red Dot and serves as a platform for budding entrepreneurs and local designers to showcase their talent and sell their exclusively-designed merchandise and services.

This seems a bit of a paradox but it really is a pleasurable street shopping experience at Bugis Street, which is quite rare in Southeast Asia. For starters, shoppers do not have to browse elbow to elbow with each other thanks to generous, well-designed spaces. The walkways are spacious while open-concept shopfronts provide ample room for you to manoeuvre.

And despite Singapore being hot and humid, you won’t be sweating buckets at Bugis Street as it is now air-conditioned and the cleverly designed high roofing structure allows natural skylight onto the street walk, creating a bright and breezy atmosphere. Powerful cooling and lighting systems have also been installed, setting a new benchmark to the street shopping experience.

Indeed, Bugis Street offers a unique street shopping environment with a distinctly local flavour.