Fun Claw (Plaza Singapura)

Fun Claw occupies a level-four unit at Plaza Singapura, in the mall above Dhoby Ghaut station.

Claws are all it holds — rows of them stocked with plush and character prizes, played on tokens you buy from the changer. The shop runs itself, with nobody on the floor, and at this branch that shows. The prizes are jammed up against each other and the glass, and nothing is repositioned during the day, so a toy wedged out of reach in the morning is still wedged out of reach at closing time.

Be realistic about what you are walking into. The claws here are too weak to lift most of what is in the cabinets, and a long run ending with nothing is the usual result. Nobody is there to help if a machine swallows a token, although the mall’s own directory carries the chain’s number. If you are set on playing here, settle on a figure before you change the first note and treat anything you catch as a fluke.