Why settle for three square meals a day when you can have five or six?

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Only tourists should be allowed to lose their money pointlessly in a casino.

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Durian is revolting until you spend money on a good one. Then it’s divine.

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A jingle by an a cappella trio announcing the next train goes from charming to irritating after exactly six jingles.

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The Dim Sum Dollies, the stars of a campaign by Singapore’s rail authority to promote courtesy through repetitive a cappella jingles.

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Extreme cleanliness is good for business, apparently.

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There are people willing to spend $20,000 on a piece of ginseng root.

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With just the right amount of housing quotas, free speech suppression, religious bans, and severe penalties for defying them, you can foster racial harmony.

There’s nothing wrong with drinking a $200 wine with a $4 plate of Hainanese chicken rice.

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Buddha’s tooth is under constant video surveillance.

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Can! Can, can, can!

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2. Pigeons are very, very tasty.

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3. Beer with ice is tolerable if consumed quickly.

4. “You have such white skin” is the highest compliment you can pay a woman.

5. Food is never fully prepared when it arrives at your table. You finish it off with heaps of fresh herbs and handfuls of sauces.

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6. Coffee is only worth drinking when it’s so strong and thick and can double as barbecue sauce.

7. The horn is a most versatile device, useful for things like avoiding motorcycle accidents and announcing your existence.

8. The áo dài is the most elegant, most flattering, most joy-inspiring garment a woman can wear.

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9. Rats are no big deal.

10. A favour and a service are indistinguishable until the helpful stranger presents the invoice.

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Have you been to Vietnam? What did she teach you?

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