Singaporeans in New York City Options

[ruoyi]

Hello all!

I'm a year 1 business student from NTU, and am in US now with my friend on a work and travel programme! We will end work in July and will be travelling around new work tentatively from 13th July to around 17th July. We would like to seek help on where to go for sight seeing, shopping etc, as well as where can we find cheap lodging (as cheap as possible)! Thanks so much in advance!

<3,
ruoyi

[Raddy Raul]

Hi All,

I'll be stopping over in New York from 30May till 3June. I was wondering if there is any Singaporean meet up or if you guys hang out together there. Do lemme know if you guys are planning anything during that time frame.

Thanks

[suds n wicks]

I heard about the plane that crashed into the apartment building at 524 E. 72nd Street. Hope none of you live there.

[Ho Iris]

Hi Iris

Welcome to NYC. I am residing in Connecticut and NYC is an hour by the Metro North. For your information, Karen Chan is organizing a monthly Dim Sum Gathering on Oct 7 (Sat). The time is 1 pm and the location is Chinatown, outside Chase Bank (Canal and Elizabeth Street). For more information, please visit http://singaporeans.meetup.com/4/boards/ This is another website for Singaporean in NY area. Hope you will be able to join us.

Warmest Regards
Johnny Tan

Hey Johnny,

Ah..I signed up for the Dim Sum at meetup.com too. Hope to see you there !

Iris

[Tan Johnny]

Hi Iris

Welcome to NYC. I am residing in Connecticut and NYC is an hour by the Metro North. For your information, Karen Chan is organizing a monthly Dim Sum Gathering on Oct 7 (Sat). The time is 1 pm and the location is Chinatown, outside Chase Bank (Canal and Elizabeth Street). For more information, please visit http://singaporeans.meetup.com/4/boards/ This is another website for Singaporean in NY area. Hope you will be able to join us.

Warmest Regards
Johnny Tan

[Ho Iris]

Hi

I am currently doing a fellowship in Columbia University Medical Centre. Are there any fellow singaporeans in NYC ?

Hi Everyone,

I moved to New York in July 06 from Charlotte with my husband.

Hope to see you all at the events by Singaporeans Meetup.com

I find it hard not to share this with other Singaporeans living in New York.

I'm not sure where you usually go to in Chinatown when you have your hunger cravings (most Singaporeans I know head out to "Penang" or "Nonya"), but I wanted to say that my favourite favourite favourite eatery of them all is a small hidden restaurant on 18 Doyers Street called "Sanur". (Walk down Mott Street, South of Canal, take a left on Pell Street, and take a right on Doyers)

This restaurant actually has two parts to it, there is the main ground-level and the basement which is the restaurant part to it. On the ground level, they sell economical rice any 3-dishes on rice for $3... just like in Singapore. There's even curry chicken and curry vegetables! They also sell nonya kuehs, yam cake (or-kueh), ba-chang, curry puffs, ang-ku-kueh, kueh bangkit, fresh kaya, fried ikan bilis, pandan chiffon cake and yes, freshly-made kaya.

If you go there for breakfast at 8.30am in the morning, they sell the breakfast-version of fried noodles, fried bee hoon, and also lor mai kai, breakfast nasi-lemak, red bean soup, and bean curd barley gingko nut soup. The basement part is a regular restaurant, with all the regular Malaysian and indonesian fare, and in my opinion cheaper and better than Penang. (Cheaper also because this restaurant doubles as an illegal bookie centre from what I heard)

Best
Ronald

Thanks for the reccomendation. Personally, I find food at Penang yucky.. I like the curry assam fish head the Malaysian Restaurant at 46-48 Bowery. Spicy!!!

[Tan Kia Seng]

Hi Everyone,
Here it is, our yahoo group name is sgbizcontacts. If you have a yahoo account, then u can access the database any time you want after becoming a member; you can sign up for yahoo id easily. if you don't want to have a yahoo account, please follow method 2 but note that without a yahoo id, you cannot access the database at your convenience; you will have to email a moderator for the list. My preference is for everyone to get a yahoo id so the admin work is less.

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[Tan Johnny]

Hi Y W & Karen

As I am in Connecticut area, it will be too difficult to attend any meetings in NYC on weekdays. However, weekends will be most ideal and I look forward to the dim sum gathering which Karen is organizing with SgConnect. I think the date is Oct 7 but the time and vennue has yet to be announced.

Warmest regards
Johnny Tan

[Y W]

Ok Folks,

I'm the super idle organiser of the Singaporeans Meetup. Actually not really idle larh, just that I was too busy with work and studies at the same time. Nevertheless, am really excited that there are so many newcomers to the group.

So, I've decided to resurrect the monthly dim sum gathering at Chinatown. Woo hooo.. So, all of you must support me lerh and RSVP for the event!

Hope to see ya guys and gals around!
Later,
Karen

Hi Karen

So where and when is this dim sum gathering....love to attend. Will call of the other singaporeans friends I have roped up.

yw

[Chan Karen]

Ok Folks,

I'm the super idle organiser of the Singaporeans Meetup. Actually not really idle larh, just that I was too busy with work and studies at the same time. Nevertheless, am really excited that there are so many newcomers to the group.

So, I've decided to resurrect the monthly dim sum gathering at Chinatown. Woo hooo.. So, all of you must support me lerh and RSVP for the event!

Hope to see ya guys and gals around!


Later,
Karen

[Y W]

Hi Ronald Lim and Yeow Wai

Thanks for all the golden tips and will defintely check all of them. Ronald's write up on those eatries reminded me of our very own TCS Makansutra program.

As for the chinese grocery shopping, I frequent Kam San which is located in White Plains, NY. This store is huge and clean. It is owned by a Taiwanese and we practically can purchase most of the items we need, except for Milo. The other place that I also frequent is in West Hartford, CT, which is called A-Dong. This is run by a Vietnamese and they have Milo.

I prefer to drop into these two outlets as opposed to driving into Manhattan which is longer distance and heavier traffice. Besides, the tolls on I95 and crossing the White Stone Bridge can be expensive and not forgetting about parking in Manhattan which is around US$20 an hour.

Warmest regards
Johnny Tan

Hi Jonny and Ronald

I tried this restaurant in queens flushing ... it is called SENTOSA. The food is not too bad and quite reasonably priced as well.

I ususally do my shopping at the smaller stores near the subway station for B and D at GRAND ST. Just come out from the subway and there is a meat speciality shop. It sells very fresh and resonably priced meat. There are also a very provision shops around the area which allows you to get the dried goods.

are you guys going for The New York City Expat Singaporeans Meetup Group meeting on 27 Sep.

rgds
yw

[Tan Johnny]

Hi Ronald Lim and Yeow Wai

Thanks for all the golden tips and will defintely check all of them. Ronald's write up on those eatries reminded me of our very own TCS Makansutra program.

As for the chinese grocery shopping, I frequent Kam San which is located in White Plains, NY. This store is huge and clean. It is owned by a Taiwanese and we practically can purchase most of the items we need, except for Milo. The other place that I also frequent is in West Hartford, CT, which is called A-Dong. This is run by a Vietnamese and they have Milo.

I prefer to drop into these two outlets as opposed to driving into Manhattan which is longer distance and heavier traffice. Besides, the tolls on I95 and crossing the White Stone Bridge can be expensive and not forgetting about parking in Manhattan which is around US$20 an hour.

Warmest regards
Johnny Tan

[Lim Ronald]

I realised that I forgot to share something else.

On Elizabeth Street (South of Canal Street), there's an Indonesian/Malaysian/Thai grocery store called Asia Market Corp that sells anything from sambal belacan paste, every conceivable curry paste, assam paste, bah-ku-teh, baking pre-mix for kueh lapis, agar-agar powder, instant 3-in-1 teh tarik/kopi, Indomie Mee Goreng, and other South East Asian specific stuff that isn't easily found in other HK/Chinese supermarkets. Home food-sick kitchen patriarchs and matriarchs must check it out.

Regards
Ronald

[Lim Ronald]

I find it hard not to share this with other Singaporeans living in New York.

I'm not sure where you usually go to in Chinatown when you have your hunger cravings (most Singaporeans I know head out to "Penang" or "Nonya"), but I wanted to say that my favourite favourite favourite eatery of them all is a small hidden restaurant on 18 Doyers Street called "Sanur". (Walk down Mott Street, South of Canal, take a left on Pell Street, and take a right on Doyers)

This restaurant actually has two parts to it, there is the main ground-level and the basement which is the restaurant part to it. On the ground level, they sell economical rice any 3-dishes on rice for $3... just like in Singapore. There's even curry chicken and curry vegetables! They also sell nonya kuehs, yam cake (or-kueh), ba-chang, curry puffs, ang-ku-kueh, kueh bangkit, fresh kaya, fried ikan bilis, pandan chiffon cake and yes, freshly-made kaya.

If you go there for breakfast at 8.30am in the morning, they sell the breakfast-version of fried noodles, fried bee hoon, and also lor mai kai, breakfast nasi-lemak, red bean soup, and bean curd barley gingko nut soup. The basement part is a regular restaurant, with all the regular Malaysian and indonesian fare, and in my opinion cheaper and better than Penang. (Cheaper also because this restaurant doubles as an illegal bookie centre from what I heard)

Best
Ronald

[Y W]

Hi Fellow Singaporeans

We have been residing in Wilton, Connecticut, which is 65 mile north of NYC. Our family arrived in July 2004 and we will be here on a long haul.

It is always good to meet with fellow Singaporeans to share tips and experience and this portal is very appropriate and timely to make the connection easier. So far, we have met a handful of Singaporeans (3 to be exact) who are working around Stamford area.

I will definitely be eager to meet with more Singaporeans down in NYC which is an hour by train which ends at Grand Central Terminal. We have yet to explore Manhattan except for the occassional trips for meetings. It will be good to meet with Singaporeans over a meal in town and to expand our networks. My email address is johnny58@optonline.net and looking forward to our new connections.

Warmest regards
Johnny Tan

Hi johnny

nice to hear from you. will drop you a note. met up with some of my friends in NYC recently during the National Day reception. There is another reception coming up on 20 Sep for the visiting FM.

Great way to meet fellow singaporeans.

yeow wai

I think http://singaporeans.meetup.com/4/about/ and http://www.nysingapore.com/ are pretty good links for you to find other singaporeans in NYC.

hey thanks diana... I signed up for it.

[Tan Johnny]

Hi Fellow Singaporeans

We have been residing in Wilton, Connecticut, which is 65 mile north of NYC. Our family arrived in July 2004 and we will be here on a long haul.

It is always good to meet with fellow Singaporeans to share tips and experience and this portal is very appropriate and timely to make the connection easier. So far, we have met a handful of Singaporeans (3 to be exact) who are working around Stamford area.

I will definitely be eager to meet with more Singaporeans down in NYC which is an hour by train which ends at Grand Central Terminal. We have yet to explore Manhattan except for the occassional trips for meetings. It will be good to meet with Singaporeans over a meal in town and to expand our networks. My email address is johnny58@optonline.net and looking forward to our new connections.

Warmest regards
Johnny Tan

[L V]

Hi guys, have always hoped to look for a job in NYC ... but just wondering how easy it is for us to make it there? I have been doing marcom for about close to 6 years in the technology industry.

I was kinda hoping to venture in the field of marketing research when I'm there. Any hope for me?

[S May]

My husband is actually enrolled in the EMBA joint program with Berkeley and Columbia. We would be heading up sometime in October 21-28. It would be nice to see another fellow Singaporean for sure.

~M

[Tan Su Eng]

Hi

I am currently doing a fellowship in Columbia University Medical Centre. Are there any fellow singaporeans in NYC ?

I think http://singaporeans.meetup.com/4/about/ and http://www.nysingapore.com/ are pretty good links for you to find other singaporeans in NYC.

[Y W]

Hi

I am currently doing a fellowship in Columbia University Medical Centre. Are there any fellow singaporeans in NYC ?