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>> anthony: that's your favorite malay dish. what's your favorite chinese dish? >> cab driver: chinese, ho kai min. >> anthony: ho kai min? >> cab driver: ho kai min. sometimes chicken rice. >> anthony: chicken rice of course. >> cab driver: yes. >> anthony: how about favorite indian dish? >> cab driver: definitely biryani. you know that? >> anthony: the biryani. >> cab driver: ya. biryani rice. >> anthony: oh, sungei road right? >> cab driver: yes, yes. >> anthony: oh that's the best -- on sungei road. it's funny. i recognize every place here by food. [ laughter ] >> goh: tony, how are you? >...

Do you think that the singaporean success story is a rebuke to american and western values in some respect? >> donald: no, no. >> anthony: i mean, is free speech overrated? >> donald: i don't think we succeeded because the absence of free speech. >> anthony: it's a fact, though. >> donald: the values of free trade, the values of a liberal global order, these are western ideas. i mean, singapore did not invent them. the asian did not. >> anthony: i mean, look, it shouldn't work. it hasn't really worked like this anywhere else. and yet, it works. >> donald: i think my objection or my discomfort ...

♪ ♪ >> anthony: to many, singapore is the land of opportunity. people from all over the world come here to get a good job, to find a better life. >> mike: as an overseas chinese, we have been discriminated in laos, thailand, vietnam, indonesia, malaysia, in america, australia, all over the world. suddenly, you got this guy called lee kuan yew. there's nowhere else in the chinese world have a real leader as big as lee kuan yew. >> anthony: much of singapore's success is often credited to its first prime minister, lee kuan yeu, a singaporean of chinese decent considered the founding father o...

>> najip: i grew up with that. yeah, exactly. >> anthony: that sounds kind of depressing. >> najip: i know, but that's the past. >> anthony: the muslim quarter --just following afternoon prayers. i'm here with najip ali, a singaporean malay entertainer and producer. >> najip: yeah, okay. >> anthony: that looks good. >> najip: this is it. >> anthony: so this is a -- >> najip: longton. >> anthony: and this? >> najip: mee siam. >> anthony: we are having longton. rice cake, coconut gravy, vegetables, and a hard-boiled egg. and mee siam, fried rice noodles with chili paste, prawns, bean sprouts and...

Things you can't do. >> najip: can't do, yeah. >> anthony: do you think that young creative singaporeans feels those constraints and suffer from them? >> najip: i think some of them who travel knows better. most of them are over educated and under exposed, meaning they have very little experience in what they know. and i think that's what we are lacking. they're looking for things to do. and the problem with this is we're living in a small country and we have nowhere to go and no way to experience these things. if you're in new york and you don't like the city life and you say shit, i'm -- >> ...