I was wandering along Boat Quay on my last afternoon in Singapore and I suddenly spotted this place. The first thing that went through my mind was ‘what a cool name’. In fact I thought the name was so cool that I simply could not walk past, and despite the fact that I was a little pressed for time, I made the executive decision to step inside and buy a drink, even if it was simply to say ‘I had a beer at a bar called the PurPle TurTle. As you can probably tell by the name, the bar is purple, and there are little turtle scattered about the place. Out the back you have some dart machines(which is basically darts without the pointy ends — I have always wandered how drunk people manage to play darts in the pub without causing serious injury to anybody, but then again you don’t see many dart boards in pubs these days). Look, the bar isn’t all that fantastic, but the reason it gets points is simply because of the name.