East Point Mall
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East Point Mall is a shopping mall located in Simei
, Singapore
. It is a six-storey complex that serves the needs of residents in Simei and Tanah Merah
. The shopping mall is known for Pet Safari, once the largest pet store in Asia
, which sells pets
, pets paraphernalia and a veterinary. The mall also holds a mass line dance
every Saturday.
There are many food and beverage outlets serving food from simple street fare to fine dining restaurants.
A food court is located on the uppermost level, with Local, Korean and Japanese dishes.
Jack's Place
serves western dishes, mainly steak
.
Sakae Sushi
is a Japanese restaurant which offers both ala carte meals and a sushi
buffet.
Starbucks
sells gourmet coffee
, tea
and cakes.
An Old Chang Kee
outlet sells its set dishes called Take 5!. These includes curry chicken
, laksa
and nasi lemak
.
The uppermost level is a dedicated learning hub which has many enrichment centers.. They provide a wide range of educational classes.
Arts and music classes include ballet
and drawing classes.
Languages centers allows the learning of foreign languages like French
and Japanese
.
Tuition centers allows students to reinforce their knowledge of core subjects like English
, Mathematics
and Science which are taught in schools.
Books, music and stationary stores are located throughout the mall.
Popular Bookstore is a large store selling books, stationaries and electronics like electronic dictionaries and computer CD-ROM s.
EMF Bookstore allows customers to rent, buy or sell books and comics.
Clothing and accessory shops make up the bulk of the shopping mall. There are casual
and formal
clothes, lingerie
, winter clothing and many accessories.
A supermarket, NTUC Fairprice
is located on the basement level. It offers food products, household necessities and luxury items like alcohol
.
There are also many other shops like a dry cleaner, pet shops, opticians and hair salons.
and Cheers
)
Changkat Primary School, Changkat Changi Secondary School, Changi General Hospital
, Changi Simei Community Centre and Simei MRT Station
are all less than 10 minutes away from the mall. There is a shuttle bus service between the shopping center and Changi General Hospital.
Simei
Simei is a housing estate located in the eastern part of Singapore, situated next to Tampines New Town across the Pan-Island Expressway. The name Simei is pinyin for "four beauties" in Chinese. Initially, the roads in this area was named after the four great beauties in Chinese history...
, Singapore
Singapore
Singapore , officially the Republic of Singapore, is a Southeast Asian city-state off the southern tip of the Malay Peninsula, north of the equator. An island country made up of 63 islands, it is separated from Malaysia by the Straits of Johor to its north and from Indonesia's Riau Islands by the...
. It is a six-storey complex that serves the needs of residents in Simei and Tanah Merah
Tanah Merah, Singapore
Tanah Merah is a region located in eastern Singapore. It consists largely of private residential properties, country clubs, and some light industrial parks...
. The shopping mall is known for Pet Safari, once the largest pet store in Asia
Asia
Asia is the world's largest and most populous continent, located primarily in the eastern and northern hemispheres. It covers 8.7% of the Earth's total surface area and with approximately 3.879 billion people, it hosts 60% of the world's current human population...
, which sells pets
PETS
PETS may be an acronym for:* Pet Travel Scheme, which allows animals to travel internationally without quarantine* Pets Evacuation and Transportation Standards Act...
, pets paraphernalia and a veterinary. The mall also holds a mass line dance
Line dance
A line dance is a choreographed dance with a repeated sequence of steps in which a group of people dance in one or more lines or rows without regard for the gender of the individuals, all facing the same direction, and executing the steps at the same time. Line dancers are not in physical contact...
every Saturday.
Outlets
A wide variety of outlets allows residents to have a one-stop shopping area.There are many food and beverage outlets serving food from simple street fare to fine dining restaurants.
A food court is located on the uppermost level, with Local, Korean and Japanese dishes.
Jack's Place
Jack's Place
Jack's Place is a US TV series that aired from May 26, 1992 to July 13, 1993 on ABC. The series was about a retired jazz musician named Jack Evans who runs a restaurant where romances tend to start...
serves western dishes, mainly steak
Steak
A steak is a cut of meat . Most are cut perpendicular to the muscle fibers, improving the perceived tenderness of the meat. In North America, steaks are typically served grilled, pan-fried, or broiled. The more tender cuts from the loin and rib are cooked quickly, using dry heat, and served whole...
.
Sakae Sushi
Sakae Sushi
Sakae Sushi is a restaurant chain based in Singapore serving Japanese cuisine, and is the flagship brand of Apex-Pal International Ltd...
is a Japanese restaurant which offers both ala carte meals and a sushi
Sushi
is a Japanese food consisting of cooked vinegared rice combined with other ingredients . Neta and forms of sushi presentation vary, but the ingredient which all sushi have in common is shari...
buffet.
Starbucks
Starbucks
Starbucks Corporation is an international coffee and coffeehouse chain based in Seattle, Washington. Starbucks is the largest coffeehouse company in the world, with 17,009 stores in 55 countries, including over 11,000 in the United States, over 1,000 in Canada, over 700 in the United Kingdom, and...
sells gourmet coffee
Coffee
Coffee is a brewed beverage with a dark,init brooo acidic flavor prepared from the roasted seeds of the coffee plant, colloquially called coffee beans. The beans are found in coffee cherries, which grow on trees cultivated in over 70 countries, primarily in equatorial Latin America, Southeast Asia,...
, tea
Tea
Tea is an aromatic beverage prepared by adding cured leaves of the Camellia sinensis plant to hot water. The term also refers to the plant itself. After water, tea is the most widely consumed beverage in the world...
and cakes.
An Old Chang Kee
Old Chang Kee
Old Chang Kee is an established snack chain in Singapore specialising in curry puffs and other local snacks. Established in 1956, Old Chang Kee started off as a small stall outside Rex Cinema at McKenzie Road which still exists. Its current chairman, Han Keen Juan bought over the establishment...
outlet sells its set dishes called Take 5!. These includes curry chicken
Curry chicken
Curry Chicken is a common South Asian cuisine dish popular in South Asia , Bangladesh, East Asia, Malaysia as well as in the UK, Canada and the Caribbean. A typical curry consists of chicken in an onion, tomato, and yogurt-based sauce, flavoured with ginger, garlic, chillies and a variety of...
, laksa
Laksa
Laksa is a popular spicy noodle soup from the Peranakan culture, which is a merger of Chinese and Malay elements found in Malaysia and Singapore, and to a lesser extent Indonesia.- Origin :The origin of the name "laksa" is unclear...
and nasi lemak
Nasi lemak
Nasi lemak is a dish sold in Malaysia, Brunei, Singapore, Riau Islands and Southern Thailand. The dish is considered the national dish and a national heritage of Malaysia. It is not to be confused with Nasi Dagang sold on the east coast of Malaysia or Terengganu and Kelantan although both dishes...
.
The uppermost level is a dedicated learning hub which has many enrichment centers.. They provide a wide range of educational classes.
Arts and music classes include ballet
Ballet
Ballet is a type of performance dance, that originated in the Italian Renaissance courts of the 15th century, and which was further developed in France and Russia as a concert dance form. The early portions preceded the invention of the proscenium stage and were presented in large chambers with...
and drawing classes.
Languages centers allows the learning of foreign languages like French
French language
French is a Romance language spoken as a first language in France, the Romandy region in Switzerland, Wallonia and Brussels in Belgium, Monaco, the regions of Quebec and Acadia in Canada, and by various communities elsewhere. Second-language speakers of French are distributed throughout many parts...
and Japanese
Japanese language
is a language spoken by over 130 million people in Japan and in Japanese emigrant communities. It is a member of the Japonic language family, which has a number of proposed relationships with other languages, none of which has gained wide acceptance among historical linguists .Japanese is an...
.
Tuition centers allows students to reinforce their knowledge of core subjects like English
English studies
English studies is an academic discipline that includes the study of literatures written in the English language , English linguistics English studies is an academic discipline that includes the study of literatures written in the English language (including literatures from the U.K., U.S.,...
, Mathematics
Mathematics
Mathematics is the study of quantity, space, structure, and change. Mathematicians seek out patterns and formulate new conjectures. Mathematicians resolve the truth or falsity of conjectures by mathematical proofs, which are arguments sufficient to convince other mathematicians of their validity...
and Science which are taught in schools.
Books, music and stationary stores are located throughout the mall.
Popular Bookstore is a large store selling books, stationaries and electronics like electronic dictionaries and computer CD-ROM s.
EMF Bookstore allows customers to rent, buy or sell books and comics.
Clothing and accessory shops make up the bulk of the shopping mall. There are casual
Casual
In the European tradition, casual is the dress code that emphasizes comfort and personal expression over presentation and uniformity. It includes a very wide variety of costume, so it is perhaps better defined by what it isn't than what it is...
and formal
Formal wear
Formal wear and formal dress are the general terms for clothing suitable for formal social events, such as a wedding, formal garden party or dinner, débutante cotillion, dance, or race...
clothes, lingerie
Lingerie
Lingerie are fashionable and possibly alluring undergarments.Lingerie usually incorporates one or more flexible, stretchy materials like Lycra, nylon , polyester, satin, lace, silk and sheer fabric which are not typically used in more functional, basic cotton undergarments.The term in the French...
, winter clothing and many accessories.
A supermarket, NTUC Fairprice
NTUC FairPrice
NTUC FairPrice Co-Operative is a supermarket chain based in Singapore and the largest in the country. The company is a co-operative of the National Trades Union Congress or NTUC. The group has 100 supermarkets across the island, with over 50 outlets of Cheers convenience stores island-wide...
is located on the basement level. It offers food products, household necessities and luxury items like alcohol
Alcohol
In chemistry, an alcohol is an organic compound in which the hydroxy functional group is bound to a carbon atom. In particular, this carbon center should be saturated, having single bonds to three other atoms....
.
There are also many other shops like a dry cleaner, pet shops, opticians and hair salons.
Vicinity
Many shops are in the vicinity of the mall. There is another Old Chang Kee outlet selling finger snacks, two hawker centers and two 24-hour convenience stores (7-Eleven7-Eleven
7-Eleven is part of an international chain of convenience stores, operating under Seven-Eleven Japan Co. Ltd, which in turn is owned by Seven & I Holdings Co...
and Cheers
Cheers
Cheers is an American situation comedy television series that ran for 11 seasons from 1982 to 1993. It was produced by Charles/Burrows/Charles Productions, in association with Paramount Network Television for NBC, and was created by the team of James Burrows, Glen Charles, and Les Charles...
)
Changkat Primary School, Changkat Changi Secondary School, Changi General Hospital
Changi General Hospital
Changi General Hospital is a 790-bed hospital located in Simei, eastern Singapore...
, Changi Simei Community Centre and Simei MRT Station
Simei MRT Station
The Simei MRT Station ', is an above ground Mass Rapid Transit station on the East West Line in Singapore. On the East West Line, this station is between Tampines and Tanah Merah stations...
are all less than 10 minutes away from the mall. There is a shuttle bus service between the shopping center and Changi General Hospital.