Balestier is top tier when it comes to bah kut teh, chicken rice, and home furnishing shops. But all the way back in 1835, the area was a sugarcane estate owned by Joseph Balestier, the first American Consul to Singapore. (Now we're craving for sugarcane juice.) When he left the country in 1848, Balestier (the area named after him) steadily.
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