Gourmet’s Asia correspondent seeks out the romance of a bygone era in Singapore, Cambodia, and Burma.

Many of us Singaporeans avoid the tourist-filled Newton Hawker Center. We don’t often wrestle with the ubiquitous chile crabs either. Why should we, when there’s a melting pot of rustic...

Soon, the eighth moon of the lunar year will rise round and full over Singapore, and the people will unite with merriment and cake.

No place takes the philosophy of “out with the old” more seriously than Singapore, where nothing is immune to the forces of change.