My two biggest takeaways from Singapore — everything's expensive and you can't do anything.

A decent meal starts at S$30 (just to remind you, S$1 ≈ 0.7€). Google is full of places marked S$100+ per person. What really caught my eye is that a regular beer costs S$15-20 (I saw ads on the street for happy hour at S$8). Non-alcoholic drinks are cheaper, but not by much.

You can eat without breaking the bank at street food stalls. The food is delicious and there are options for less than S$5 per dish. These stalls occasionally get Michelin stars. I went to the one that used to have one, but I wasn't too impressed. Still, for S$12 I can tell everyone I ate at a Michelin-starred hole-in-the-wall.

Grocery store prices are great too. A dozen eggs go for S$5-8. Potatoes here are basically a delicacy. S$1.80 per potato (!). I've never seen them sold individually before. Rice and other local stuff is more affordable. S$16 per kilogram of fresh shrimp — that's actually a great price.

No wonder a barista at some unremarkable takeaway spot in a shopping mall is offered S$3000 a month.

Fines are pretty much astronomical for everything. Prohibition signs are everywhere. I especially loved the fine up to 200 bucks if what you ate or drank comes back up (to be fair, I only saw that in a couple of places). While I was on the metro, I just automatically grabbed a bottle of water from somewhere and took a sip. Then I realized that costs S$500. Nobody seemed to notice. Hopefully I won't get a bill for it.