Crazy Rich Asians

An American-born Chinese economics professor flies to Singapore with her boyfriend and discovers that his family is impossibly wealthy. The map runs from the arrivals hall at Changi across the island: a hidden colonial estate near the Botanic Gardens, the hawker stalls of Newton, the shops of Orchard Road, the rooftop of Marina Bay Sands and the beaches of Sentosa.

Rachel Chu

Changi Airport

Part One

Rachel lands in Singapore expecting a modest family visit and is met instead by the first signs of extraordinary money. The arrival at Changi, gleaming and orchid-lined, sets the tone for a world she cannot yet read.

Part One

explicit Kwan names Singapore's Changi Airport as the couple's point of arrival; sited at the main passenger terminals on the island's eastern edge.

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Rachel Chu

Tyersall Park

Part One

The family seat is a vast colonial estate hidden behind a long drive, a house older and grander than any hotel. Kwan invents the mansion but borrows its bearings from the genuine Tyersall grounds by the Botanic Gardens, where a Johor sultan once kept a palace now lost to fire.

Part One

inspired by Tyersall Park is a fictional mansion, but its name and setting draw on the real Tyersall estate beside the Botanic Gardens, home to the Sultan of Johor's Istana Woodneuk; sited on that historic ground.

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Rachel Chu

Newton Food Centre

Part One

Away from the mansions, Nick takes Rachel to a hawker centre for satay and noodles under fluorescent light, a reminder that the same city holds street food and staggering wealth side by side. Newton is the open-air stalls that anchor the scene.

Part One

explicit Kwan names the Newton hawker centre as the setting for a late-night meal; sited at the food centre on Clemenceau Avenue North by Newton Circus.

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