Willis' Singapore Guide

Additionally, the guide also included many food recommendations, with an entire chapter dedicated to the Satay Club on Beach Road.

[1] In the guidebook, Willis advised visitors to travel by the local trolleybus system instead of using rental cars or taxis as taking the trolley buses were much cheaper.

[1] The 1938 edition of the guidebook extended its coverage to most parts of Malaya that tourists were likely to visit and included an entire chapter on Hong Kong.

"[5] A reviewer from The Straits Times wrote: "I should say that it is just the sort of book that a tourist wants when he sets out to do sightseeing, and the only improvement that might be made is the provision of a much more detailed index.

"[6] A reviewer from The Straits Budget wrote that the 1937 edition "contains an astonishing amount of information about our city, so much indeed that it is likely to provide ship-board reading for several days after the tourist has left Singapore behind.