Holland Village, which to most Singaporeans is just another neighbourhood shopping street, is apparently a somewhat magical place to a woman from China.
In a post on XiaoHongShu, she gushed over the place, calling it “unreal” and like a movie set.
Source: Suzzzzy on XiaoHongShu
The post on 29 July came complete with a dreamy video of Holland Village taken in the evening.
Set to a catchy Cantopop ditty, it portrayed an idyllic scene of people walking down Lorong Liput amid fairy lights, past a kopitiam offering roadside dining and the quirkily designed Holland Piazza mall in the background.
Despite the locale looking no different from how Singaporeans know it, her clip managed to capture the charm of Holland Village in a way not many might have considered.
In her caption, the netizen with user name “Suzzzzy”, who hails from Guangdong province, wrote that Holland Village was such an “unreal” place in Singapore.
She also compared it to a real-life version of The Sims, a life-simulation video game.
Source: Suzzzzy on XiaoHongShu
Every time she goes there, she sighs at how unreal it is, she said, adding:
Living here will put you in a better mood every day.
She even described Holland Village as something “like a movie set”, e.g the one in “Toy Story”.
Netizens in the comments were divided, with one agreeing that Holland Village had a “special feeling”.
Suzzzzy replied that the place had a “3-dimensional feel” and allowed people to let loose at night.
Source: Suzzzzy on XiaoHongShu
However, others said they had no feelings about the area despite going there often.
Source: Suzzzzy on XiaoHongShu
Concurring, another netizen said it was “just another place”, though the video made it look “brighter” and “more Western”.
Source: Suzzzzy on XiaoHongShu
Lastly, one contributor concluded that Holland Village looked nice, but it was “really expensive”.
Source: Suzzzzy on XiaoHongShu
To that, Suzzzzy agreed that it was “expensive like s**t”.
Also read: Customer says paying S$5 for sugarcane juice at Holland Village Food Centre is ‘ridiculous’
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Featured image adapted from Suzzzzy on XiaoHongShu.
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