Mustafa is located in Little India, and everybody in Singapore knows it, any taxi driver would be able to bring you there, just say: Mustafa please! The center is open 24/7, and has got everything, and I mean, everything. With my buddy Paolo, who came to visit me for two weeks, we created a new game: Will Mustafa have it? Think of an object you can buy. Can you find it? Of course.
From golf clubs to wheelchairs, from toothpaste to laptops, from chinese medicine to porcelain, it's all there. You walk in between corridors of shoes and walls of food blenders. Gold? To trade in kilos or just for a present?
All credit cards accepted, but if you run out of money there's always Mustafa Financial Services and Mustafa Money Changers, they're just between the Mustafa Restaurant and the Mustafa Travel Agency.
Not only you have everything you might think of, but for every item you have all kind of brands. For watches for examples it starts from 2 Singapore dollars ones, and continue all the way up to real Rolex. Now apply that to pens, hoovers, fax machines, electronic Bibles and Qurans.
Another characteristic of Mustafa is the big sizes and packages. Rice? 20kgs pack. Mouthwash? 3 liters. Paolo was looking for dental floss, and instead of the normal 50 meters found a 200 meters one. The joke with him was that when you buy something in Mustafa you buy it once and for the rest of your life! My friends from Lombok asked me for a special fishing rod, and were expecting the classic 150 meters roll. Imagine their faces when they saw a 3075 meters one!
Being super busy during the day we love to go to Mustafa after 3am, even better after a couple of drinks. And even at that time, you'll be surprised by the sight of entire families browsing around, children running, the odd transvestite looking for business. Really a business capital, and one of the symbols of Singapore's controversies and contradictions.
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